An animation of various line and shape depictions of a Converse shoe.

Object Translation

Icon Design • Poster Design

I designed a series of representations of a shoe. I initially sketched variations in marker and pen, focusing on line and shape respectively, and refined these into vectors.

I then created a series of posters using a variety of approaches including rotation/repetition, scanning, and the golden ratio.

Shoe 1 – plain silhouette.

Shoe 2 – blocky, retro line drawing.

Shoe 3 – contour drawing.

Shoe 4 – blocky shape silhouette.

Shoe 5 – curvy, thick line drawing.

Shoe 6 – abstract shoelace line drawing.

Shoe 7 – blocky line drawing.

Shoe 8 – mix of blocky shapes and thinner line drawing.

Textured drawing of shoes using ink and dry branch-like material found outside.

Abstract poster made from scanning textured drawings.

A variation of a similarly scanned poster.

I took the textured sketches and scanned them, moving them during the process to create patterns and textures.

Original textured drawing with no touch-ups.

Vectorized version of drawing.

Inverted version of vector drawing.

Black and white poster featuring the inverted texture drawing.

An inverted version of the poster with a more representational shoe.

Framed version of the second poster.

Original second textured drawing with no touch-ups.

Vectorized version of drawing.

Inverted version of vector drawing.

Another black and white poster, this time using the second texture drawing.