2020 Grad Show

Ashley Van Spengen

VCD – Advertising & Graphic Design

www.persephonegraphics.com/

Canadian born and raised, that maple syrup may run in my veins. Growing up, I wanted to be an illustrator, or as I use to call it 'draw-er' having not known the name of the job, and those skills have followed through my work as time's gone on, Allowing myself to take a creative stance on my work and designs. Though as I grew up, I was drawn to graphic design and typography. How illustration and design play together to to create a beautiful image, it seemed like a puzzle I couldn't wait to solve.

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Sir Gwaine Book Cover Gwaine’s armour is a blue-green tone, for as the tale ends, the knight of the round table wears a green girdle for the rest of his life, as to speak of his downfall, and a reminder to stand by his code. While the gold stands out, grabbing your attention before gilding your eye down the page by the vines incapsulating the knights body, just as the challenge set by the green knight has incapsulated the rest of Gwaine's life.

Front Cover Here's a close up on the front cover

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Endpapers With the endpapers being opposite from the cover, it will create a contrasting, but uniformed feel to the book.

Gift Wrap and Tissue paper

Sir Gwaine and the Green Knight

Is an Arthurian legend told in the form of a poem about bravery, chivalry, and honour according to the knights code! A man, as large as a mountain, but green as moss throws down a branch of holly to challenge King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Gwaine agrees to the battle, and the rules this giant posed. Gwaine has one free swing, and anything he does onto the Green Knight, the Knight will return in a years time. It's quite the story, I'd recommend it.

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Pelican A company that designs cases that are resilient to different environments. Their cliental stretches from photographers, to the military, from civilian to EMT's. I wanted to make a logo that looked brave, and strong and resembled a badge that anyone would feel proud of wearing.

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Skunkworks Distillery A Calgarian based moonshine distillery, I worked with for a bit. Though they didn't go for the design, I always loved the mesh of geometric and fluidity, and the colours that showed quality, and the excitement that the owners had for their product. I was very pleased to work with them, even if the design wasn't chosen, and I'm pleased to show you now.

Logos

Logos I've enjoyed creating !

Cover In the creation of a new magazine called Enigma, we had to design a cover. We have a vampire and a dullahan of celtic mythology, so what better way to present a monster magazine for monsters by monsters, than having our two main feature creatures of the night fleshed out on the back and front covers as an introduction to their tales seemed like an ideal gem.

Vampire Close Up We wanted our readers to get up close and personal with our travel Vamp, as she travels the world for the best spots to visit without turning into ash from the glowing sun. The illustration was used along with some images of the cities said to be best for our fanged friend.

Siren Date Night Humans aren't the only ones who use dating sites or apps! A sirens got to soak her scales in a warm tub before finding her self one of the million fish in the sea! This image was with a how to date section of the magazine.

Dullahan Full body Introducing a modern dullahan, has he recalls times of losing his head every now and again, and finding it in the most unlikely of places.

Rumour Has it In a world of monsters, it's the humans who are the myth and those of tales of stealing children from under the bed. But, what do humans look like in the eyes of monsters?

Magazine Illustrations

Magazine illustration that were done by myself, for an editorial project that was a lifestyle magazine made for monsters by monsters.

Torn Apart font

Hideous part 1 Using the font I created, I made posters of the song lyrics by Ramsays Fiction, a Canadian Band now known as Marianas Trench.

Hideous part 2

Hideous part 3

Hideous part 4

Hideous part 5

Torn Apart + Lyric Posters

Here's a display font that I created, that to represent heart break and sorrow. For Torn, I wanted to focus on the
structure being thin, and frail. The inner ‘support’ of the font is to represent the inner turmoil, the heartbreak that isn’t visible from the outside. Having the spine of the letter broken gave off the feeling of crumbling infrastructure, distressed wood and the water running down a window, which was something I wanted to play with.

Phantoms Using the lyrics of a wonderful melody called "I Knew You When" by Marianas Trench, using a stock image edited in Photoshop and art of the album videos for a spread. This band has always held a special part in my heart, thought the dark times and the light at the end of the tunnel, so in designing this, I wanted it to be a show of my appreciation, and play with the typography of the lyrics to invoke the movement and emotion of the song.

David Carson Inspired

Using the work of David Carson as inspiration

Cirques De Ciel Poster A high flying trapeze circus full of wonder and awe. I wanted to create something bold, and large. Something that defined the ideas of weight, and weightlessness, as the type seems to fly into the sky, just reaching for that next bar, the next jump, the next astonished audience member.

Morris Fuller Benton A typographic poster using fonts created by Mr. Benton, as an exhibition retrospective.

Poster Design

Typographic posters, with a bit of flare.