Salvador dali
"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
If you’re looking for an ampersand appreciating, true crime obsessed designer who is scared of the dark and guilty of always using condensed type, you’ve come to the right place. I graduated with my BFA from East Carolina University and now reside outside of the Charlotte area. With a desire to create work that can help people, my design approach serves a purpose to tell stories of small businesses and business owners.
My intention as a graphic designer is to allow conversations to spark from my choices of typography, color, environment and material. I did not seek out graphic design to avoid the physicality of fine art, but rather to bring digital works to life. I adore the reality of a physical final product. Seeing a design transform into tactile food packaging or a perfect bound publication is the most rewarding part to me.
Design is a practice of manifestation. Like Dali suggests, without visualizing and creating the dream appearance for your business is essentially to making it a reality. Like an author, a designer is tasked with depicting an inviting and captivating story for the audience.
Hi, I’m Olivia!
Doc Martens
daffodils
concerts
my cat
coffee Shops
dumplings
packaging
Bagels (+ all carbs)
spin class
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I spent a good amount of my time in college in the basement of the college's fine arts building. All of my shoes have stains from the acid bath and all of my hoodies have some array of ink colors. I discovered and studied formal printmaking techniques including relief, lithography, intaglio, and screen printing in those windowless cinderblock rooms. Despite the failed etches and late nights, I am so grateful to have found a tactile art form that I love and cannot wait
Printmaking
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Growing up, I actually hated the circular letterform that my name began with. I never wanted anything monogramed because it was just a circle. There were never any O's on the jewelry at Claires or the notebooks at Justice. It was not until my sophomore year of college (yes, I held a grudge against a letter for almost 20 years) that I began to find my love for typography and did an entire experimental letterpress project with only the letter O. Ever since then, I have an appreciation for its counter and how it dips just below the x-height.
The LEtter O
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Speaking of letterpress...this shit is one of the most challenged and rewarding art forms I have had the absolute pleasure of exploring. Seeing the scratches and grain on wood type and the broken corners of a teeny-tiny 8pt letter add so much more depth and human touch to a piece. I wasn't even mad when I was told I would have to do math in order to set my type because it was all part of the process. This long-lived and long-loved form of printing celebrates where graphic design started before we needed ergonomic keyboards and blue-light glasses.
