My 2013 design Portfolio.

Designed at a beach in Los Angeles, California. Crafted and bound at a printer in downtown Los Angeles. It is meant to symbolize a peculiar relationship between art and industry and my initial studies.

— graphic design.

Some photographs of John Hansen's final portfolio.

0/ Overview

I set out to convey

thoughts and experiences I had while studying graphic design in Santa Monica, California after a series of substantial personal events which collided. I condensed my internal experiences through work and then into a book for my final portfolio.I crafted it using vellum pages printed with my original notes ripped from their sources and altered by my new technical capabilities to illustrate the emotive part of this experience.I tried to capture my evolving ideas throughout my studies as I never thought it would happen, it was important to me.The ideas and resulting artifacts were merged and physically combined with very heavy, nearly absurd and almost impossible, page stock ironically showcasing the prints of my work, all bound in an understated, dark, hardcover and deliberately drone book printed and finally bound in old-style in downtown Los Angeles throughout a bustling three days. I used vellum pages to house my notes so as to overlay my the work to give a sense the primal form which was then refined and presented through a contextual layer, the work I presented:

1/ On me

A flippant introduction.

Space with hand over vellum, intimate. To introduce me without content, just context. A suggestion of de-emphasis.

2/ On subverted Intentions

Intention subverted.
Short forms in staccato, rapid communication resulting in the absence of communication. Vague promises in large amounts, quickly.

4/ On the essentiality of Sound

Pregnant remnants.
Suggestion extracted in the shape andcolor of an erratic winter storm— violent and sweet.

4/ On white space

Two negatives make
a positive.
A book is a portal.

4/ On exhibitionism

An exhibition is today.

5/ On Constance

I was invited back to school to give a presentation to the portfolio class after.
I really enjoyed it.