My Art + Design 2016

Arise! by Josiah
My official logo expressing rationality, balance, 
uprightness, style, clarity, passion, aesthetics and thought
Medium: Illustrator  Size: 6 x 6 inches  Year: 2016

Arise! Visual Poetry
The poem that led to Arise! Logo
Medium: Illustrator  Size: 8.5 x 11 inches  Year: 2016

Cultural Event Poster

A cultural event poster influenced by Bauhaus Movement
Medium: Illustrator, InDesign
Size: 18 x 24 inches  Year: 2016 

Fort Calgary Map

Based on the MakeHistory campaign, making the museum modern 
and futuristic. Target audience is new young visitors such as tourists.
Medium: Illustrator, InDesign
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches  Year: 2016

Dyson Instruction Manual
This project explores how instructional information can
be highly readable and engaging using typography. 
View full manual here

Medium: InDesign  Year: 2016

Broadsheet
In the real world of graphic design, managing large
quantities of text is a routine challenge. Designers use
the principles of hierarchy, alignment, and page layout
to make content easy to scan and enjoyable to read.
Medium: InDesign Size: 24 x 30 inches Year: 2016

Event Poster
Event poster for  for Calgary Tour de Nuit Society 
a local cycling advocacy organisation.
Medium: Illustrator  Size: 20 x 30 inches  Year: 2016

Beauty Of Africa Gala Flyer

The face of a flyer designed or an event organised by
Beauty of Africa happening in Calgary. It aspires to
express the modern African
Medium: Illustrator, InDesign 
Size: 5 x 8.5 inches  Year: 2016

Eric Gill Poster
Designing a retrospective exhibition poster for 
a typographer using only the typeface(s) that 
the typographer created.
Medium: InDesign  
Size: 20 x 30 inches  Year: 2015

Personalised Stationery
Personalised stationery for a company comprising
a note pad, business card and envelope
Medium: Illustrator, InDesign

Size: 20 x 30 inches  Year: 2015

Logo Design
Creating relevant, appropriate company logo derived from 
on an animal, falcon bird for Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd.
Medium: Illustrator
Size: 20 x 30 inches each  Year: 2015

Mascot Design

Taking from the Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd logo above the challenge was to design 
the company's mascot using only paper and glue. The paper sculpture would 
appropriately reflect the aspirations of the brand, Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. 
Here my bird is shown individually and in a curated exhibition with other 
sculptures created by fellow students

Medium: Paper and glue  Size: 20 x 5 x 18 inches  Year: 2015

JEEP Ad

This ad will help position the JEEP as the choice for the new cool, design conscious young urban professionals. 
JEEP represents the root of discovery within the city. The brief is "JEEP designed to go anywhere." 
Objective: Express the benefit by using a word (or two). Using only expressive typography to demonstrate 
JEEP’s ability to go anywhere. My concept was Break Free from the city confines with JEEP. This ad would 
be situated at Calgary's downtown CORE Mall. It's to be viewable at lunchtime sitting at the food court vantage point

Medium:  Photoshop  Size: 8.5 x 11 inches  Year: 2016

WonderBra Ad

A bra ad campaign selling without actually showing the bra or woman's body

Medium: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign 

Size: 8.5 x 11 inches each  Year: 2016

Bad Ad, Good Ad
A rework of a real magazine ad from a bad one to good one
Medium: Photoshop, InDesign

Size: 8.5 x 11 inches each  Year: 2016

Shaving Cream Package

Design packaging for a single type of shaving cream 2 ways:
for women and for men. All 2 packaging ideas must be systematic, 
conveying via design choices that they are a cohesive line of products.
To give a feeling of a locally, handmade, intimate barbershop store 
in Calgary I looked back to the Victorian era for inspiration.
Medium: Photoshop  Size: 5 x 6 inches  Year: 2016

Common Object Rendering
Using Illustrator to render a common object - Boss watch
Medium: Illustrator  Size: 8.5 x 10.5 inches  Year: 2015

Photo Composite

Using at least 5 separate images to build a mashed-up story.

Medium: Photoshop  Size: 5 x 7 inches  Year: 2015

Baby Impala
Digital painting using Photoshop to realistically render a subject— baby impala in this case
Medium: Photoshop  Size: 8.5 x 11 inches  Year: 2015

It's A World Record!

Illustrate an actual world record, employing exaggeration, 
visual hyperbole. The world record may be any statistic, 
achievement, fact or fantastic feat in any field or subject area.
I chose Melvin Boothe's Guiness Book of Records entry
Medium: Ink on Paper  Size: 8.5 x 11 inches  Year: 2015

The Race
Studying value, tonal plans to express an idea and action
Medium: Gouache on illustration board
Size: 11 x 24 inches
Year: 2015

Botanical Study
Drawing from observation 3 views: general, close and close-up. 

Done at the Devonian Gardens at CORE Mall in Calgary

Medium: Ink on Paper  Size: 18 x 24 inches  Year: 2014

Kinetic Typography (Video)

Full video click here
Medium: AfterEffects, Illustrator, Photoshop
Year: 2016 

**WRITINGS**

Please follow this link for my writing projects

Josiah Taundi. Mama Afrika. 2016. Acrylic on illustration Board. 16 x 20 in

Josiah Taundi. Mokoomba. 2016. Acrylic on illustration Board. 16 x 20 in

Josiah Taundi. Mama Afrika. 2015. Gouache on illustration Board. 11 x 21 in

Josiah Taundi. Composition. 2015. Acrylic on illustration Board. 20 x 16 in

Josiah Taundi. Musical Composition. 2014. Acrylic on illustration Board. 20 x 16 in

Josiah Taundi. Scupture Drawing. 2015. Graphite on Paper. 15 x 11 in

Josiah Taundi. Sculpture Drawing. 2014. Graphite on Paper. 18 x 16 in

Josiah Taundi. Figure in Environment. 2014 Graphite on Paper. 18 x 24 in