Hadley McCormack: Portfolio

project1: color as medium

For this project, I created two Photoshop files and experimented with layering the same two images over each other in different ways. One is rendered in CMYK and is intended to be viewed digitally. The other is rendered in RGB and is intended to be viewed in print.

project2: cutting edge

For this project, I followed a set of instructions (a score) that I wrote for myself. I ended up rasterizing two album covers: French Exit by TV Girl, with a low PPI, and Little Dark Age by MGMT, with a high PPI. It was interesting to experiment with different resolutions and see how they affected my perception of the engravings.

My instructions for this project went as follows:

• Sit down at your workspace and notice your environment.
• Allow two elements from your environment to stand out.
• Use these elements to select two respective images.
• Import these images into Illustrator.
• Rasterize them. One should have a higher pixel per inch count than the other.
• Use the laser cutter to engrave the images into plywood, then cut them out.
• Sand as needed.

project3: steal this book

For this project, I worked with material from the literary magazine of one of Brown's literary societies, King House. The magazine is called Sketchbook. I remixed its content, taking snippets of poems and stories and playing with text, layout, and color. The final product is a print-magazine style piece.