Breaking Bad, Season 1 Symbols

Custom-designed Breaking Bad symbols based off Season 1

Breaking Bad: Season 1 Summary (told in symbols)

I decided to recreate another symbols story. This time, I based my design off an existing story: Breaking Bad, season 1. 

Letterforms: Assignment #1

 

Letterforms : Assignment #1, analyzing Source Sans Pro (extra light), Lobster 1.3, and Comfortaa

Understanding Written Language

Understanding Written Language

         As a designer, I find understanding the history and development of written languages fuels how I communicate and design.   The layers of languages that merged to create English create a multifaceted source from which I draw my inspiration. Symbols remain important in my graphic design work for clients. Symbols are essential in communicating effectively because they express messages without a large amount of text. 

        My style focuses on illustrations and symbols to convey messages and emotions. My work does not focus on large bodies of text, so I rely heavily on images and a hand drawn aesthetic. Like the layered history of written languages, I look to history and past/present designers to inspire my own work. One specific designer, David Carson, presents modern work that fuels my own. His typography overlaps and becomes more of an image than a written language meant for reading. I see his work in the same scope with ancient writing systems where letters were shapes, or symbols. The development of written systems and design continue to fuel new perspectives in my own design work.

Information sources: ilovetypography.com

Published on 2/215
Edited on 2/11/15

Pictograph Story: "The Last Months"

Digital Illustration with a play off universal symbols, entitled "The Last Months."
Inspirations: Quentin Tarantino, The Cohen Brothers, and modern social issues.

Stylized Symbols

These are the more finalized symbols that I created based on existing ones. I studied existing symbols to see what made them strong universal pictographs. I determined that the graphic use of color and shape was important to maintain in my own design to keep my own versions of the symbols recognizable. I played with outlines, positive/negative space, shapes, and hues of colors (with a limited color palette).

Symbols: Sketches for Story

These are my sketches that I created while developing the plot and style of my pictograph story. I started with hand drawn sketches and brainstorming. Then, I moved to digital sketches on the computer. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to address a social issue or multiple social issues that occur in the modern world today. Therefore, I started with basic symbols, and further developed them to my own needs and style for this story.