Here is one of our talented designers, Faryal! 

1. If you could describe your design style in a few words, what would they be?

My deign style is clean but also merges some illustrative properties to create visual dynamism. 

2. Where do you get inspiration from?

From everyday life! I am the biggest design geek ever. I love looking at layout of magazines, compositions on graphic tees, packaging in super markets, movie posters. I also love interior design and I love going to furniture outlet stores and malls during christmas time. Besides that I love using design studio websites, logo designers blogs and blogs like pinterest and tumblr. 

3. What is your favorite font?

My favorite font is Baskerville. I have a special liking for the serifs and that texture that they create and Baskerville is forceful yet elegant.

4. When did you know you wanted to be a designer?

I took my first design class just for fun and I knew within the first few days! It is rather surprising when you realize the power of design. 

5. Do you work in any other mediums?

I love combining photography, collage and layering of the two with my design. Photo montages are my favorite.

6. What is your favorite color combination?

Many! I love a whole array of colors. But I will say that it might be a cliche but my tried and true favorite would be black, white and red. Classics for a reason.

7. What’s one tool you could never live without? (can be any design program)

command Z! Its my life :)

8. What’s your biggest design pet peeve?

Kerning. It causes me deep pain and torture to see messed up kerning. The space between the ‘it all ends’ on the last Harry Potter movie poster continues to bother me to this day.

9. If you could be a designer for any company, which would it be? Pentagram design firm. It my dream!

More to follow soon!

February’s Designs of the Month!

Have you ever wondered who designs the weekly posters and fliers in the bathrooms and around campus? Our designers create them! February’s weeklies were designed by Stefanie, who focused on the significance of Black History month.

More to come next month!

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commonvision’s monthly design for January! Designs by Brendan, Mayen, April and Faryal! 

All of you awesome followers can look forward to our designers’ best work each month =) This is the first design collection, so this post has some past design pieces. Many more to come in the following months! 

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mark your calendars! UMBC ART WEEK 2012 is happening April 2nd-6th and submission deadlines are in mid-to-late March! more information and marketing coming very soon!

fyi - we’ll be looking for multimedia, film, animation, photography, traditional, installation, 2D, and 3D art + any other art you can think of! share, pass it along, tell all of your friends! we want you, so get excited. 

In case you were wondering ‘What is open in The Commons during Winter Break, and when?’, you now have this to refer to!

Congrats to all of our friends, coworkers, and customers taking that big walk across the stage today. Make sure your handshake for Freeman is firm, and that you let your mom take a picture of you (no matter how embarrassed you are about it).