Celina
Gudzowski
I am a quiet, daydreaming, closet gamer who loves to nerd out about my interests. I find inspiration in my passions which include music, video games, and movies. I want my work to reflect how design has influenced me during my life and to be able to inspire other people. Being able to use my imagination to create things that others can appreciate is why I love design. During the pandemic, I spent my days on a deserted island paying off my debts to a money-hungry, capitalist raccoon.
The Swing
I chose the masterpiece “The Swing” and illustrated it in the artists Jongmee Kim’s style. Jongmee’s style is very detailed where she would draw every line in the subject’s hair and featured many repeating patterns in the backgrounds or on clothing. Her style is also very flat with little to no shadows which is what I attempted to replicate in this piece.
Practice sketches in order to help me get used to the style of Jongmee Kim. I used some of the images of her work as a reference for my own drawings.
A comparison of the original work alongside my own rendition of the masterpiece. I wanted my piece to feature much more patterns just like Jongmee’s work, so I repeated a bunch of leaf patterns in the background alongside some patterns on the figure's dress.
Papillon Wine
I decided to challenge myself by creating a brand identity for a wine company. The word Papillon is French for butterfly, so I decided to design the brand and labels around that concept. I wanted to create something elegant, and delicate so I illustrated different butterflies sitting on different grapes depending on what the drink consisted of. Each flavour has a designated butterfly and colour in order to differentiate between white wine and red wine.
The stationery package for the wine company. I wanted to keep the elegant look, so I used different butterfly wing patterns and shapes as accents on the business card and letterhead in order to connect all the pieces together.
Sketches I did for the logo as well as for the wine bottle labels. I wanted to go with something more elegant and feminine from the start as I feel wine is depicted as such. I also used a visual matrix in order to give me a good idea of the look and feel of the labels and overall brand.
Sapporo Snow Festival Package
The Sapporo snow festival is a popular event in Japan where popular characters are made into large snow sculptures. I designed a festival package for the event which includes a foldable brochure and postcards. Information about what to do at each site is on the back of the brochure that doubles as a poster. The postcards feature cute characters and instructions on how the snow sculptures are made.
Word association and early concept sketches in order to generate ideas for the project. This is what I mainly do for every major project. I find it is useful in order to help me generate ideas fast. I even did sketches of my planned folds for the project, typefaces, as well as planning what the brochure and postcards could look like.
Early computer renders of the brochure and postcards before more playful poses were selected for the characters for the final product.
Learn the Facts About Immigration (animation series)
I spent time researching and interviewing recent immigrants to Canada in order to create a series of animated PSA’s. These videos were created to bring awareness to and dispel immigration myths that are widespread over the media. They were made for a wide audience who would be active on social media wherein most of the myths are circulated.
Storyboards for the first and second animated video that I created. This presented a fact about immigration that people may consider to be true unless they checked their sources.
