Isaac Moody

Design Portfolio

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My name is Isaac Moody. Thank you for taking time to look at my portfolio. I love design. Its music for our eyes. It elicits emotion and can set us at ease. We can absorb it with little effort, or active concentration, and just like music, it can communicate across language, and cultural barriers. It also shares the risks of music. In the process of creating, one out of place mark can set the whole piece out of tune. It requires persistence, careful consideration, and the readiness to fail to create something beautiful. I would really love to now show you the main body of my work, and I hope you enjoy what you see.

Special Project. I created these two iOS app icons above using Adobe Illustrator CS5. They represent two parts of a communications tool used in a retail environment. I also collaborated with the engineer and my partner on this project, to direct the user interface and overall user experience of the apps. I wanted us to achieve a skeuomorphic-type design for the interface. We went with the chalkboard and this helped guide the rest of the look and feel on the project. The roll out also involved some marketing, illustrated at the bottom-left.

Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, event proposal. This was a lot fun creating these pieces of artwork. The layout was created in Illustrator, with parts imported from Photoshop. There is a poster (above), desktop wallpaper (below left), and a keynote slide theme (below right) as part of the materials created. Its a throwback to cold-war era, B-movie posters. Playing on that mystery, the event was designed to bring people together in the local area, celebrating locally sourced talent and resources.

Audition marketing materials. A locally based, professional childrens singing group was wanting to expand their talent pool and asked me to create a mail-out yer. It was printable and also an interactive PDF with a button embedded to allow the reader to submit an application easily. The two images below are the header and footer for the email sent to candidates. The design style helps set the tone for the callout straight away.

University Gala Ball, event proposal. This small piece of artwork was designed for an event to represent the different departments of the Creative Industries faculty at Queensland University of Technology using the symbolic images impressed into the feather mask. The event was proposed to be one which showcased talent and allowed for networking between students and industry professionals. It was about making the most of the transition from study to real-world practise. The artwork was also used on the handout below summarising the proposal.

Print work for QDeck. A cross-section of the print work I completed for a local tourist venue, QDeck, the Q1 Building observation deck, now known as Skydeck, located in Surfers Paradise. It is situated on level 77 of Q1 and has some amazing views up and down the East Australian coastline. On Friday and Saturday nights, they stay open until midnight with a premium cocktail bar, QBar, hosting, and local DJs providing the entertainment.

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Coursework. As part of my Communication Design study at Queensland University of Technology, I had to come up a product and all of its design materials including, instructions, packaging and marketing materials. Here are a few excerpts from that work, and may I introduce you to the product I called: Vu. Picture your TV is made of clay and you could mold it into an shape you like, and then place it on any surface. Now morph it and shape it again. It was designed to bring fun, magic, and physical interaction back to moving image.

Logo design. Heres just a few of my favourites from over my time drawing, and making. Down the bottom of the page are a couple of T-shirt designs I put my hand up to do in some of the community theatre shows I have been involved with. Guilty pleasures.

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Poster design. Is there anything better than sitting down and spending hours placing lines and text on a page to create a poster? This is where it all began for me about 15 years ago, discovering the joy of desktop publishing. Not being the worlds best illustrator, this was a godsend. Ive come a long way since those MS Publisher days, yet at the same time I havent moved an inch, still drawn to, and mesmerised by the rewards of print design. And I dont think that will change.