2021 Grad Show

Morgaine Johnson

AUArts Grad Show Morgaine-highline-crop

VCD – Character Design & Illustration

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Born on Treaty 7 land, Mohkinstis, Morgaine is an illustrator with a background in professional cooking & baking. Her work is inspired by the natural world, emotions and colour. She enjoys working with paint, screenprinting, relief printing and digital medias.

Cover artwork and endpages.
Spot illustrations for chapter headings. The quintessential moiron helmet and Quixote's "giants".
This is the recipe & information booklet that would be sold alongside Don Quixote.
A chopping board with inset Laguiole cheese knife and esparto grass decal burned into the edges. Created in Blender and Photoshop.
The recipe book mocked up in Blender.
The final package! Make sure to clean your block thoroughly when you store it in the slipcase.

Don Quixote

A classic book redesign of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Additionally, we were asked to come up with a fun way to market our book of choice. I chose a recipe folder to explore Spanish cuisine inspired by Don Quixote.

Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show Mockups Design
Cover artwork and endpages.
Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show Spots
Spot illustrations for chapter headings. The quintessential moiron helmet and Quixote's "giants".
Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show COOKLOOKBOOK-doubleside
This is the recipe & information booklet that would be sold alongside Don Quixote.
Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show DQ-Choppingboard
A chopping board with inset Laguiole cheese knife and esparto grass decal burned into the edges. Created in Blender and Photoshop.
Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show dqspread-pdf
The recipe book mocked up in Blender.
Don Quixote AUArts Grad Show DQSlipcase
The final package! Make sure to clean your block thoroughly when you store it in the slipcase.

Zoom Juice

Zoom Juice is a kombucha beverage that gives you and your brain the fuel you need. A series of bottle labels for this hypothetical product.

Zoom Juice AUArts Grad Show kombucha_thumbs(3)
Zoom Juice AUArts Grad Show kombucha_thumbs(5)
Zoom Juice AUArts Grad Show kombucha_thumbs(6)
Zoom Juice AUArts Grad Show kombucha_thumbs(4)
Zoom Juice AUArts Grad Show ZoomJuice Mockup2
Excalibur The fabled sword of legend is given to Arthur to signify his divine right to rule, and the Holy Grail as a symbol of his failure.
Morgaine's Sickle In the book, priestess of Avalon & Arthur's half-sister Morgaine left behind her ritual sickle as a symbol of her renouncing her priestess-hood. The Old Man of Tor can be seen in the background as a symbol of the old ways.
Plough I reimagined Morgaine's sickle as a plough and her home as a sod house. The plough is emblematic of her relationship to the land.
Excalibur In a spaghetti western, I imagined Excalibur would be a sharp-shooting Colt 45, and the enchanted scabbard gifted by Arthur's sister would be the holster for it.

The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a fantasy novel about King Arthur as told by the women of Arthurian legend. For this project we told the story through environment and artifacts from the source text, and then reinterpret the story in a different genre.

The Mists of Avalon AUArts Grad Show Pt2
Excalibur The fabled sword of legend is given to Arthur to signify his divine right to rule, and the Holy Grail as a symbol of his failure.
The Mists of Avalon AUArts Grad Show Pt1
Morgaine's Sickle In the book, priestess of Avalon & Arthur's half-sister Morgaine left behind her ritual sickle as a symbol of her renouncing her priestess-hood. The Old Man of Tor can be seen in the background as a symbol of the old ways.
The Mists of Avalon AUArts Grad Show Pt3
Plough I reimagined Morgaine's sickle as a plough and her home as a sod house. The plough is emblematic of her relationship to the land.
The Mists of Avalon AUArts Grad Show Pt4
Excalibur In a spaghetti western, I imagined Excalibur would be a sharp-shooting Colt 45, and the enchanted scabbard gifted by Arthur's sister would be the holster for it.
Self Care Sometimes we need a reminder to be gentle and care for ourselves as much as we care for others. Screenprint, 10"x10".
Fatigue I wanted to evoke the sense of fatigue I'm sure we all have felt in recent times due to the pandemic and pandemic-related issues. For myself it has felt like the light at the end of the tunnel is ever-slowly advancing and yet feels so distant at the same time. It feels as though I am walking through a bog, slow, steady paces and yet advancing nowhere. Screenprint, 11"x15".
Fatigue (Red) Alternate colourway. Screenprint, 11"x15".
Cowpoke Four colourways, two linoleum plates. Block printing, 12"x12".
Cowpoke Screenprint on Hahnemuhle paper. 8"x10".

Printmaking

A series of works I created using various printmaking techniques.

Printmaking AUArts Grad Show selfcare
Self Care Sometimes we need a reminder to be gentle and care for ourselves as much as we care for others. Screenprint, 10"x10".
Printmaking AUArts Grad Show IMG_20210414_131944
Fatigue I wanted to evoke the sense of fatigue I'm sure we all have felt in recent times due to the pandemic and pandemic-related issues. For myself it has felt like the light at the end of the tunnel is ever-slowly advancing and yet feels so distant at the same time. It feels as though I am walking through a bog, slow, steady paces and yet advancing nowhere. Screenprint, 11"x15".
Printmaking AUArts Grad Show Redshroud
Fatigue (Red) Alternate colourway. Screenprint, 11"x15".
Printmaking AUArts Grad Show Road2Ruin
Cowpoke Four colourways, two linoleum plates. Block printing, 12"x12".
Printmaking AUArts Grad Show IMG_20210414_132524
Cowpoke Screenprint on Hahnemuhle paper. 8"x10".

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