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Juliana Concepción has been making music since her South Philly high school years.

“I had already been doing sound stuff in our film program and I decided I wanted to try making music for films instead of getting stock music online.”

Since Concepción’s first film score her senior year of high school, she has been producing beats for local artists and even herself. Her ambitions have led to five singles and a new EP, created with friend and artist JJARED, titled Transcend.

Concepción grew up in Philadelphia, and has had the chance to see the younger “DIY” scene evolve.

“Honestly I’m more impressed by it every day it just blows my mind,” Concepción said. “I don’t know if it’s the bubble that I’m in but I feel like everybody that I vaguely know is starting to gain traction.”

“There’s something going on here that feels different from other scenes,” Concepción said. “I feel like we’re all playing off of each other and helping each other out, which is nice.” 

Concepción spends all of the free time she has outside of class at Temple University working with other artists on making videos. Currently studying film, she hopes to make music a lifelong pursuit. 

“I know that I’ll do something in the sound world in film or media,” Concepción said. “I think if I keep working at it I’ll make it somewhere.... maybe.”

Regardless of where she ends up, creating music will always be her passion.

“Sound is really important to me - I love producing,” Concepción said. “And if I can get someone to produce a feeling from that, that’s cool.”

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Week 14 - samtrilling.com

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Week 14

My goals for my portfolio are to create a project that reflects who I am personally and professionally. The portfolio will still take time to fully develop, but I hope to be able to send colleagues/employers to my website. 

My intended design decisions were to create a single-page website with a tabbed menu that would scroll to the intended position for you, but I realized at the end of the process that only themes that were not available to me could do that. Ideally I would have had 4-5 tabs (writing archives, visual archives, in progress, resume, etc.) that would have helped users navigate the website. The fonts and colors I chose allowed for easy reading, and I thought they played well together in general. 

To be entirely honest, I’m not very proud of my final logo, but I had a lot of difficulty creating details from hand in illustrator, so I used bicycle vectors I found online. I’m pretty proud of my resume, however, for how reflective it was of the D&D character sheet.

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Whole bunch of logo ideas, with #1 being the tandem seats in the corner

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I just want to modify a D&D character sheet where appropriate... The closer the better just to recall the sheet

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let me edit your writing!

hey friends!

I lost my job recently and I am desperately looking for new work right now. Until I find another full-time job, I still want to try to utilize my degree however I can.

I want to edit your papers! I want to edit your blog posts! I want to edit your fan fiction! Let me edit your writing!

My rates are pretty cheap (because I’m desperate). I wouldn’t charge you any more than you could afford. The exact cost would be determined on a case-by-case basis. I can accept payments via Venmo and PayPal!!

Message me!!!

Please help me out! Reblogs appreciated!

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Magazine Design

For this assignment, I chose to create a magazine for everyone’s favorite game: chess. Yup, that’s what’s up, an artistic, long-form chess magazine. This specific article addressees the protests of the Blitz and Rapid World Championships on the part of various players. This is achieved by symbolism and metaphors in the piece choices: the Queen representing the women who chose not to participate (Anna Muzychuk, of Ukraine), and the King and Bishop representing the literal King of Saudi Arabia as well as the tournament organizers, and the bishop representing the religious basis of mandated ‘modest wear’ for women. Also, the Vol is alluding to chess notation ;)

I tried to have fonts that represent the feelings of each topic: Arabian related headline text is in a font reminiscent of Arabic scripts (tastefully, unlike snapchat’s recent filters feature cyrillic), Ukrainian fonts that have similar strokes to cursive Ukrainian, and conservative body and title fonts for chess (because, yeah). I chose to have relatively artistic messages in the cover page (falling king) and the spread (board design), as well as sand dunes to give greater emphasis on the location of the tournament. I tried to keep it minimalistic, because this is not your run of the mill statistics or play based chess analysis - this is long-form content on stories, with clear players and motives. 

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For the snackable graphic I decided to create multi-lingual player cards. I created the same card in two different languages, either to be split between platforms or posted together for different audiences. I chose to do this because I am studying Russian and I post (and would like to write) in Russian about Dota. For this player card, it would likely be the social media post/basic information graphic for a highlight piece, instead of a game-update. This information reflects who Roman (Ramzes) is to someone who has very little or no idea what Dota is, and does not follow the professional scene. Instead of putting overwhelming and misleading statistics about GPM, XPM, K/D, etc., this piece is to highlight his age (YOUNG!), prominence, and ‘where he fits in’.

Besides the design decisions mentioned above, I made the choice to put my twitter @ in the bottom right (figure I should take credit for it). I also decided to match the colors to the team so that if this was a greater project, I could easily organize player cards by team (just call me Topps already). Other than that, the fonts were limited by the languages available, something I didn’t realize was a thing until this project. 

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Esports (yes, AP *correctly* ruled it’s esports not e-sports or eSports or whatever else people were using) are a booming professional sports industry, with annual growth of over 30%. The scene is dynamic, covering several game archetypes and dozens of titles: League of Legends, DOTA 2, Overwatch, CSGO, Super Smash Bros, etc. The advent of the professional scene has been an economic haven not only for high-tier players, but also for investors, advertisers, sponsors, and fans. I created this graphic in an attempt to introduce  a generally unaware audience to the scene.

While creating this graphic, the first decision I came to was what I actually wanted to include. I decided to stray away from the player salaries and winnings in order to keep my graphic focused on the value of sponsors and investments. Visually, I tried to match colors (revenue types to different sponsor colors, money related totals, etc), while having enough contrast. Using the accessibility checker, I found that 2 of the sponsor logos were potentially too similar, but I chose not to adjust the background because it would likely push other logos to inaccessible contrasts anyway. I also decided to introduce breaks between topics in order to keep the relatively dense graphic clear as to what text addresses what data.

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Think I misunderstood the assignment, so I'm going to post a layout sometime this week... in the meantime, I'm torn between the Mercedes-esque "Corporate A" or Trajan Pro font (serifed) and a sans-serif font (maybe League Gothic?). Think the colors blue, white, and gold are the best to use (white for text, blue for background, gold for data), because it's popular in esports specifically, and generally portrays the "good" that everyone thinks they are in video games.

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Infographic Content Outline

So I thought I’d do an infographic on esports because idk maybe it’ll get me hired why else would I do it.

So to make a bit of a play on the 2017 AP change, I want to make the title (centered) lowercase on both ‘esports’ and ‘economy’. I have blue/white/gold and Corporate A font to harken to major teams/sponsors, which generally have those colors, plus gold to represent money. Plus, blue is a positive connotation to support a heavily upward trending market. Corporate A is a copy of Mercedes Benz’s font, which is a bit of a meme but also represents the major players that are willing to invest in esports. I also want to show a number of pieces of the economy, including player salary/winnings, advertisers/sponsors, and individual tournament winnings. I also want to find a way to use player pictures, because they deserve the face time/credit they don’t usually get, and to exemplify that they are normal people.

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Some of the graphics I might use

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