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Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: Malika Favre Entry
The Dinner Party Entry: Malika Favre
- December, 2021
- Personal Work
- Kintetic Typography
THE DINNER PARTY ENTRY: MALIKA FAVRE is a place setting that is also a frame highlighting the many gorgeously animated vector artworks by Malika Favre, culminating in her inclusion at Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party.
A Dinner Party Entry addition for women of the arts
Upon studying the women artists of the world like Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Yayoi Kusama, I was introduced to Judy Chicago and her feminist work The Dinner Party.
As the many inclusions covered women from many ethnic backgrounds, professions, and educations, I was given a choice as to who I would like to include should I be given the chance. Which would be very cool by the way!
Anyway, the women here are known for their acts of heroism, courage, talent, dedication to academia, the arts, and many iconic feats during their lifetimes. I decided to choose a woman who inspired me as an artist and continues to represent an elegant standard of quality and attention to detail through her work, Malika Favre.
Malika Favre
Favre is a French illustrator and graphic artist who has lived in France, London, and Italy during her career as she has created minimalist works in the styles of Pop and Op art for clients like The New Yorker, Sephora, Penguin Books, Vogue, and Vanity Fair to name a few.
I first came across Favre’s work when I accompanied my mom to a Sephora store that had her work on display for their Spring 2015 product launch. I was a junior in a vocational high school, studying graphic design and trying to develop my sense of style. Favre’s work was bold, popped, and direct. A clear extension of herself that could not be misunderstood, or misinterpreted. The clarity of her work inspired me to search for my own clarity in my work, and she continues to inspire me today as my favorite contemporary artist.
Become enamored with Malika Favre’s work on her website here.
P.S. If she ever reads this,
Thank you Miss Favre, for being true to yourself through your art and investigating beauty in the smallest details.
Reference
The Dinner Party has many examples of tapestries, and plates that represent the female guest. The plate designs are often associated with vaginal artistic interpretations crafted through sculpture. Some guests like Sojourner Truth, are represented with an illustration of highlights of their feats in life.
For Malika Favre, I felt representing her work through the most common mode of consumption in a digital age felt appropriate for her place setting. However, the selection process was difficult considering many works that Favre’s catalog provided were excellent choices.
Process
Initially, I knew I wanted to represent the classic red, white, and black style derived from Favre’s logo in the place setting. It allowed me a somewhat easy way of representing her in the tapestry, and utensils. The plate was a different story.
No single work of Favre’s felt weighted enough to be a single example of her artistry. Considering the range and quality of work presented in her portfolio as seen in the gif to the right, it was a tough choice. Then I remembered that some of her vector artworks are animated.
I searched through Favre’s Instagram account and screen-captured a few of her animated works. I then converted the screen captures to video clips, and sequenced them together into one clip. Thus Favre’s plate would be empty, so as to transform from a plate to a window frame that peers into the many works of the artist’s career thus far.
But this was not enough. I needed to include something more, considering the majority of the work presented was not my own other than designing the place setting itself. Then I remembered the works I created inspired by Favre and chose Textured Dreams. This piece was a personal exploration of the beauty of curly, and textured hair. I animated my work using Adobe After Effects for this project and included it at the end of the sequence to represent Favre’s legacy as she inspires the next generation of artists like myself.
A Selection of Works by Malika Favre
Place Setting Animation
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Doctors Who Create Merch
Doctors Who Create
- March, 2020
- Rebranding, Merchandise
- Vector
DOCTORS WHO CREATE is a rebranding, merchandise design, and website design project for an organization that unites and celebrate doctors who are also creatives and artists.
The Coolest Doctors Create
Working with these doctors was a wonderfully enlightening and heart-warming experience for me. I enjoyed learning about the passion behind this organization and the people who are trying to find creative ways to change common approaches to patient care.
Through directly communicating with the clients, I was able to develop a website and merchandise that in their words, “Amazed us!”
Existing Branding
Overview
The organization has worked on a limited budget, and therefore could not afford to hire professional design services. Everything they had produced was entirely done by in-house creatives that were a part of their organization. From the mugs to their cards, and even their logo and website, all were created by their own artists.
Mission
The doctors needed a more professional branding experience, and though I worked in a group to develop their new logo design, I was entirely responsible for the design of their merchandise, and website.
Vision
The doctors are not limited to the visual arts, they also participate in the performing arts. Some play instruments, others are ballerinas, gymnasts, and poets. With a varied collection of creatives in their organization, we needed to develop an identity that respected all forms of creativity along with strong merchandise that was functional and could be used for more than just brand recognition.
Font Exploration
Merchandise
After redesigning the brand logo, and associating a font with their angel, I took over and created pieces approved by the clients that could be useful beyond brand recognition. The Doctors Who Create have an annual festival-like event that brings together the creatives to present their talents, and their ideas of how they might include them in their approaches to patient care. At this event, the organization hands out merchandise to attendees, and I was challenged with the selection and design of functional items.
I chose a notepad, grocery tote, and mug.
Mi Isla se Levanta
Mi Isla Se Levanta
- September, 2019
- Product & Business Card Design
- Vector Graphics
MI ISLA SE LEVANTA is a hard enamel pin, designed to represent some of the most beautiful elements of Puerto Rico
El Isla del Encanto
Music has been an important part of my life since my childhood, and girl groups hold a very special place in my heart for their songs about love, independence, and belief in oneself. One such group from the K-Pop scene of South Korea epitomized these themes, paving the way for all-girl groups that would come after.
References
Puerto Rico is known as a tropical paradise, and in this design, I leaned into that initial belief held by most tourists and the U.S. at large. Taking careful consideration, I spent the summer of 2019 designing this piece as my very first hard enamel pin in a series of pins that I devised to be launched as the first products of my independent business, Vené.
The elements of the pin design are as follows:
- The famous watchtower of El Morro, the castle (sometimes called a fort or citadel), that overlooks the Caribbean waters of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- The Caribbean waters of Puerto Rico are home to many variations of unique sea life from manatees, crabs, fish, and coral reefs.
- The national flower of Puerto Rico is El Flor de Maga, a unique hibiscus flower with large, thick, waxy petals the size of an adult’s face. Translating to the magician’s flower, El Flor de Maga was revered by the indigenous people of Puerto Rico, the Taino Boricua, to have magical properties due to its ability to change color throughout its blooming period of life.
- The icon is based on the petroglyph found on the island. It represents the Taino deity of the sun, Mauatiatibuel. His glyph can be found across the island, and I believed was an important piece to represent the mythology of the island that many Puerto Ricans themselves don’t even know about.
Sketches
Initial Font Exploration
Established in 1990, the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GPHCC) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the advancement and economic growth of Hispanic businesses and professionals in the greater Philadelphia region. We accomplish this through educational programs, and a broad range of services and special events. The GPHCC proactively serves a diverse membership—consisting of entrepreneurs, Latino businesses, Latino professionals, corporations and government—with the overriding goal of helping these critical constituencies capitalize on the many opportunities their diversity, enhanced by our Latino multicultural mix, offers.
Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Logo Exploration
Sationary
Working from reference provides a strong platform to build upon. Although, I believe as a designer we sometimes need to strip away the safety of a balanced experience in order to provoke the truest emotions and convey purer messages.
In my process I embark on a journey of discovering what the piece wants to become, and how I want to communicate that identity with the tools afforded to me. In the process of creating DARA, I sketched around the form of the model and captured an exact likeness. Then I worked to pull away elements that hindered the experience, while elevating some that would aid in provoking the desired emotions.
Below you will see the development period, and follow visually with me as I made decisions to remove and alter the piece.
Application examples
A massive storm, with a death toll higher than that of Katrina, hit Puerto Rico in September 2018. This force of nature was hurricane Maria, and it killed over 3,000 United States citizens. However, rather than headlines describing us as a people in need, I only saw phrases like “foreigners”, “immigrants”, and “freeloaders” to name a few.
People here in the states did not realize we as Puerto Ricans, like them, were in fact United States citizens. This massive ignorance was further empowered by the many tweets and discussions by Donald Trump, who disrespectfully stated
“Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.”
I was distraught as a Puerto Rican. I was infuriated as a Latino. I was driven as a graphic designer. This harrowing series of events led to my creation of Vené, an online store dedicated to the representation and education of Latin culture, beginning with Puerto Rican culture.
A massive storm, with a death toll higher than that of Katrina, hit Puerto Rico in September 2018. This force of nature was hurricane Maria, and it killed over 3,000 United States citizens. However, rather than headlines describing us as a people in need, I only saw phrases like “foreigners”, “immigrants”, and “freeloaders” to name a few.
People here in the states did not realize we as Puerto Ricans, like them, were in fact United States citizens. This massive ignorance was further empowered by the many tweets and discussions by Donald Trump, who disrespectfully stated
“Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.”
I was distraught as a Puerto Rican. I was infuriated as a Latino. I was driven as a graphic designer. This harrowing series of events led to my creation of Vené, an online store dedicated to the representation and education of Latin culture, beginning with Puerto Rican culture.
Website Design
Overview
Established in 1990, the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GPHCC) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the advancement and economic growth of Hispanic businesses and professionals in the greater Philadelphia region. We accomplish this through educational programs, a broad range of services, and special events. The GPHCC proactively serves a diverse membership—consisting of entrepreneurs, Latino businesses, Latino professionals, corporations, and government—with the overriding goal of helping these critical constituencies capitalize on the many opportunities their diversity, enhanced by our Latino multicultural mix, offers.
Mission
To develop, promote and advocate for Hispanic business in the Greater Philadelphia region while encouraging the advancement and economic growth of the Hispanic community.
Vision
To be recognized as the premier resources organization and voice servicing Hispanic businesses as well as the major force of positive change in the Latino business community
Elevar Ad Spot
Music has been an important part of my life since my childhood, and girl groups hold a very special place in my heart for their songs about love, independence, and belief in oneself. One such group from the K-Pop scene of South Korea epitomized these themes, paving the way for all-girl groups that would come after.
Iterations
DARA is a vector illustration based on Sandara Park, known to all her fans as Dara, who made a surprising return herself in Park Bom’s music video for Spring. At the time of the song’s debut, Dara had not released any music of any kind since the group’s disbandment. That was three years of nothing but modeling and acting appearances on her part, so when she appeared here it meant a lot to the fans.
Clothed in a burning crimson suit jacket, Dara had a forlorn look-conveying all of the pain that fans worldwide struggled with. It was a slow-burning experience to watch Park Bom be the target of ridicule as she was apprehended back in 2015 for unknowingly transporting medication for her ADHD from Korean news outlets and fans alike, accusing her of smuggling her ADHD medication into the country.