Elaine Deng

work

  • 2011

    (In Progress)

    To tackle the alarming deficiency in current North American young adult literacy, I am proposing to redesign classical literature to be more understandable, engaging, and inspiring using expressive and possibly dynamic expressive typography. I would like to ultimately stimulate a previously lost appreciation of literature and the English language in addition to improving reading comprehension and effectuating more frequent reading.

    I plan on creating a...

  • 2010

    How / Photoshop CS4 & Indesign CS4

    This was designed for my Print Production class, in which we were
    to choose and create a magazine of any subject. Inspiare is a documentary photography magazine, depicting a different featured photographer in each issue and consequently, his/her captures of a culture and country that is unfamiliar to the average person living in Canada. At the same time that it is about the technicalities of photography, it also...

  • 2010

    How / Illustrator CS4 & Indesign CS4

    This was created for my typography class. We were to design the cover, layouts, and style of certain sections of this cookbook as we interpreted its personality. I felt this cookbook, titled ‘Local Heroes’, along with its chapter headings and descriptions, presented itself as friendly, genuine, uplifting, and most of all, fresh. Everything from the color palates to type was chosen to convey this atmosphere. The layouts...