Joselyn
Rose
I am a graphic designer (who focuses on typography and publication design) and photographer who was born and raised right here in Edmonton! I find inspiration from my personal experience, as well as the experiences from the people around me. My career goal is to continue my work in publication design, as well as start adding some photography into the mix. The reason why I love design so much is that it has the potential to express ideas and thoughts in very unusual ways. Over the Pandemic, I volunteered with Golden Meteorite Press designing books as the captain of the graphic design team!
Daemonologie Book Redesign
A book that was done for my most recent Publication class just this last semester, is a redesign of the book titled Daemonologie, which was a book about Witches written by King James VI of Scotland. A summary of the book is that it is a logical debate of how the craft works and how to deal with it, but there are traces left behind by witches in the form of vandalism.
The Cover of the book that was done. Details of the “original” book were taken from images such as the Scottish royal coat of arms, and the traditional French symbol of monarchy, the fleur de lis. The cover suffered the most damage from the vandalism by the witches.
For the interior of the book, it also follows the similar logical appearance, but it has also been vandalized by witches in some pages of the book.
Horse and Owner Photoshoot
One of my Photography class assignments, this series of photos was meant to display a sense of the story and relationship between the owner and the horse. Candice, the owner, was kind enough to let me hang around her and her horse, Indy, for the day and take photos of their bond.
Indy here is not letting Candice brush her, but it is very strange what she is doing. Does she perhaps want a treat that is there? Maybe she wants a nose scratch?
This image shows part of the preparation that Candice and Indy go through to prepare for a day of riding. Which of course, includes the very vital step of picking the hooves.
Now that Candice and Indy have fully prepared themselves to ride, Candice gives some encouragement and reward to Indy for being so good.
There is further engagement and encouragement from both the owner and the horse in this image.
After a good day of riding, they take a little bit of time to do a little bit of practice with fetch.
Love Enough Posters
This selection of posters was done in my Typography class several years ago, and they are still pieces of work that I am the most proud of. This series of posters was done for the book, Love Enough written by Dionne Brand. The main theme that was a part of this book that was explored was the raw and blunt expression of love in various ways through three of the main characters.
For Bedri, his expression of love came from his relationship with his father, and how the combination of anger, violence, and love all clashed within his story line.
June’s story line followed the exploration of love in the traditional romantic way, but also it follows her and her various lovers as she passionately follows her story.
The love that Lia explores is the love of her family and the giant wedge that has been driven between them.
Moira Movie Posters
In this project, two movie posters were created, one using photos we took, and the other using copyright free images. We had to take the movie title “Moira” and create a story from which we would create our posters from. My concept for Moira came in the form of a comedy about a girl named Moira who is trying to find out what she wants to do with her life.
And then this was the image that I took myself, and then edited.
This image was the poster that was complied with numerous copyright free images, and then rendered into one general image.
