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Description
Body of digital card designs created for the Senior Art Capstone and exhibited in the Bush Art Center galleries in Spring 2021.
Semester Completed
Spring 2021
City
De Pere
Keywords
illustration, card design, stanley kubrick, movies, digital illustration, kubrick
Disciplines
Art and Design
Recommended Citation
Donohue, Will, "Will Donohue, Senior Art Exhibition" (2021). Senior Art Portfolios. 61.
https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/artportfolios/61
Copyright
Will Donohue
Artist Statement
I have always been fascinated by card design, am an avid card collector and wanted to create my own set. I collect cards that catch my eye, whether they have an awesome design or theme. My deck of cards include the essential jacks, queens, kings and jokers. I illustrated each into different characters from Stanley Kubrick movies such as A Clockwork Orange, the Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Lolita. This deck also is inspired by the works of Roy Lichtenstein and other Pop Artists because it conveys the style of the artwork from that era. During the Pop Artist Movement, artists such as Lichtenstein often portrayed their art by drawing from the popular culture of the time.
The reason I chose to do a deck of cards as opposed to just doing an illustration is because I actually wanted the viewer to interact with my piece. You can feel and play around with cards. I want people to have more appreciation for card design because I don't feel like it is talked about enough even though playing cards have been around for many centuries. The materials I used to create my deck are Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.