http://www.everettpelayo.com Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:35:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en with Project Projects. A proposal for a visual response to "Distributed Agency, Design’s Potentiality" by Tom Holert for Civic City Cahier. http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/civic-city-cahier/ With Project Projects A series of mock-ups for "1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design" by Allan Chochinov. The idea was to print the poster on tarnak, allowing the poster to only be printed once and travel about. Working with the principals, we compiled a set of proposals playing purely with typography. The manifest ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/1000-words-a-manifesto-for-sustainability-in-design/ I was approached by UCLA’s Public Policy department to take Migrant outflow (2008) part in their new infographics book depicting recently found data. Previously designed by Willem Henri Lucas, this year, alumni students were asked to take three data sets to produce three spreads. Art directed by Ryan Weafer, we were ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/cultures-globalizations/ With Project Projects One of my first project at Project Projects. I was brought on to help design a monogram for Maria Lind's business cards that would also work as a pattern. As an experiment, we printed the pattern with lithography, which inspired a dotted monogram for the touching experience.  The ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/maria-lind/ A result of my 10-week thesis in collaboration with Tiffany Huang, which explored our working relationship of 4 years. We were required to design a business card in a week based on how we perceived the other person. Referencing a conversation we had prior, she wanted to be more carefree ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/tiffany-huang/ For the second week of Senior Projects, we had to design a typeface depicting the personality about the other person. The idea was to essentially continue off of what we had made in the previous week but solely focus on the personality traits. I ended up sitting ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/kneehow/ UCLA DMA SI 2010 Website. The printed identity used RGB layers to create the dynamic image. I translated those layers into text on the website when you first arrive. By clicking off the layers, you are able to read the information. http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/25/ This is a website I did for Willem Henri Lucas. When brainstorming, Henri wanted a site that would be simple to update. Able to do anything with the site, I focused more on the body of work. We had recently documented all of his work and wanted to show work ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/24/ I felt that every project I had shot in the class up to that point was too serious for my taste and instead wanted to go in the other direction. I wanted to shoot something that was dream-like, humerous and funny. Eventually I decided that I wanted to play with ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/23/ http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/22/ The first day at Markatos Moore, they put me on the ROXIE project, which is San Francisco's oldest theater. I was really happy to be able to work on a project like this just because it required research, going through the history of the theater and I was able to ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/21/ I like to think that whether you like it or not, when you have tons of fun working a project, it is going to show in the final product. I feel that this was the case for the 2009 UCLA DMA GRAD SHOW brochure / book. Working on Henri's office ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/20/ On the other hand, some projects take 2 hours and you're completely satisfied about it. Usually these projects also don't come with pay so you don't feel as pressured. I'm hoping that one day I find a balance in the work place where I am happy with (almost) everything and ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/19/ [gallery link="file" columns="2"] Sometimes it is ok to be bossy. By bossy I mean really playing out the role of a curator. Not in a 'I know everything' kind of role, but rather, 'I know exactly what I want and I'm going to try and do every-thing within reach to get ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/18/ The NORTH / SOUTH MIXER project is the project that I always find funny to think about. I remember when the mixers first started, Victoria wanted an identity for it as they will be a reoccuring event every quarter. The mixers are inteded to have the seperated North Campus and ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/17/ One of the most entertaining projects that I have worked on has to be the 2009 UCLA DMA SUMMER INSTITUTE which was a collaboration be-tween Tiffany Huang and myself. We were approached by the department to develop a visual identity for the summer institute, but this year we had to ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/16/ 2009 came right around the corner and I asked again to work on their new Fall Repeal. This time, UCLA Arts wanted to REALLY push the limits and give me the freedom they had offered the first year (which I loved.) Now I had some different parameters, one being there ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/15/ Out of all of the projects that slipped through the cracks, I have to say that I am most sad about this one never happening. Henri and Renee Dalderr had currated this show called TIME BASED CONCEPTUAL ART which was a symposium with a collection of conceptual video art that ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/14/ No matter what anyone tells you, when you work as hard as you possibly can,something is going to come back your way, sometimes more than you bargained for. I have been incredibly lucky to have amazing people in my life who have kept me in the back of my mind ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/13/ Anywho, following Communication Design I with Henri, I was ready to tackle the second part of his class. This time, we were dealing with semiotics and the ability to read photographs both sep-erately and as a pair. The project was title A Thousand Pictures, which required us to choose two ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/11/ The project was titled "Date of Birth" and what we were prompted to do was research as much as possible that occured on the day of our birth locally, nationally and globally. During the progression of the class, we were supposed to keep a process book to show each step ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/10/ Planning in advance doesn't always work, especially when the plans cha-nce. Tiffany Huang and myself were asked to design and typeset Erkki Huhtamo's PhD dissertation which had just been completed. We were allowed to do anything we wanted for the book, but try to keep it as cost effecient as ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/09/ I have been lucky to continue a working relationship with David Porras after IDA Y VUELTA. The next project we tackled was for his thesis film, LA VIUDA(THE WIDOW). This time around, I figured it would be fun to really push the limits of the cover and try something a ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/08/ http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/07/ David Martin Porras in a Spanish film director, who at the time of collabor-ation was a graduate film major in the UCLA Film & Television department. David had actually been my neighbor a few years back, which I feel played a huge impact on my interest in film. We had ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/06/ Right around the time that we won the award, Henri and myself had just finised the catalogue that was sponsered by the UCLA Art | Sci Center and the Art | Global Health Center titled 07-08 Art + Activism Lectures + Events that was digitally printed by Typecraft Wood & ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/05/ The final series that I worked on was with Tiffany Huang under Henri which was the SILKSCREEN series. I specifically remember working on this series and we were having a hard time trying to visualize the information we were  given so we  decided to just go at it and just ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/04/ The PARTICLES series was the next project that I was able to tackle myself under the supervision of Henri. I remember that we wanted to push the logo that we had used on the NEWSPAPER series but take it a step further. We attempted to give the logo some sort ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/03/ The Art | Activism poster series is the largest series that I have ever completed while in the department. The best part is that under Henri, there has been a series of designers that take turns working on the series. For a few years, Henri had been working on creating ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/02/ This is the oldest project I could think of while working with Willem Henri Lucas.I do specially remember seeing he was the founder of Funny Garbage and wanted to do something with drawings to make it funny? Yeah, I know. Somehow I got a King Kipple image (this I dont ... http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/01/ I worked with Zach Blas and his designer Kristel Brinshot to help develop his website for 'Queer Technologies.' Since then, I designed a simple yet open business card. http://www.everettpelayo.com/work/zach-blas/