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Melvin Alvarez
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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I am Multimedia Artist who ocuses on creating visually interesting
and yet eccentric works that possess under lying meanings
relevant to current issues. My works range rom motion graphics
to illustration and graphic design. I mainly use digital tools to aidmy traditional design making skills in creating new work that
ranges rom the relatable to the bizarre. I want to share how I view
people and the world as I see the weirdness as something that is
real and is completely unavoidable. I aim to link the bizarre with the
common, as it is a reection o what the world is: unique and weird
individuals striving or uniormity, which I personally think is bad.
One o my series o digital and traditional illustrations and prints
entitled Of Love and Dysenteryis about a girl and a cockroach
that all in love with each other. This is seen as something strange
and disconcerting. How the mind wants to reason out that the two
cannot be together as it would end up utile and impossible isbeing challenged through illustrating them romantically and
showing how in love they are with each other.
Romantically raming the cockroach and the girl kissing adds to the
antastic eeling and sort o diminishes the idea o grossness. This
relates to how people see unusual couples (dierence in race,
same gender, etc.) are in love with each other, and how they develop
this eeling o disgust towards it based on their own belies and
upbringing, I wanted to show how love is something that transcends
boundaries and brings orth an understanding that anybody can
connect to.
My digital illustration entitled Phantasm also incorporates the
bizarreness I aim to incorporate in most o my works. This work
includes o most o the characters o the stories I have created,
which includes a melancholic maiden made out o chocolate that
lives on the tip o a petrifed rog kings tongue, and it also includes
the cockroach and the girl who have allen in love with each other. I
was mainly inspired by childrens book illustration as well as
art nouveau or this particular piece, which commonly includes
various characters in interesting situations.
My digital painting entitled Magluta tackles a particular issuethat Filipinos can relate to. The modern Filipino woman wants to
achieve airer skin as the Filipino society sees it as beauty and it
also signifes that you are o a higher status than most people who
have to work under the sun and have darker skin. I illustrated the
pale woman covering her ace with a neon green an with
strawberries in it as it signifes the attention she is getting, like a
oreign woman rom a country o air-skinned people. The woman
sitting on a golden stool also symbolizes privilege, and yet her
being in the dark and with a bottle o pills spilled under her
signiies corruption and shows how she isnt really doing
something good to hersel.
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My book entitled heaven-peace-love-past-earth-revolution-life-moment-
hell-war-anger-future leans toward the relatable side, but I stillincorporated ideas that make it unusual. The concept o the
book was the word POLE and I interpreted it as the connection
between two opposing ends: heaven and hell connected by earth,
war and peace by revolution, love and anger by lie, and past and
uture by the present.
My books cover design, ties it well with my aim to create the
unusual. I used a type o paper that does not hold ink well; staining
the hands o those who touch it, and making them connect with
my book and become a part o the concept that I have thought o
or the word POLE. This eect also makes the book look worn
out and old, allowing it to look like it has been handled by a lot o
people, making it look relatable and bizarre at the same time.
I fnd creating art with unusual themes has its own relatable charm
that makes it more interesting and eye catching. The symbolisms
and the story behind the work that I do and aim to continue to do is
something that can improve my image making skills, allowing me
to think about the whys and making my works more meaningul. I
aim to continue creating more works that stir peoples attention
and draws them in to the relatable elements present in the
unusual, hoping that the connection they eel will educate them
with the issues that I have chosen to tackle.
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PHANTOM HEARTBEAT POSTER2 4 x 3 6
A metaphorical poster for the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo
Ishiguro. A combination of handmade and digital processesusing sliced found objects, scanned-in textures and handmade
type done digitally using a pen tablet.
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PHANTOM HEARTBEAT POSTER #22 4 X 3 6
A metaphorical poster for the book Never Let Me Go by
Kazuo Ishiguro. I made use of rose petals as a metaphor forthe clones in the story, which were treated as somethig that is
easily disposable.
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A story focusedon the lives of three
clones who were bought uptogether, knowing their purpose in life,which is to donate their body parts
until they eventually die. The storyis narrated by one of the clonesnamed Kathy H. as she reminisceshow they grew up, fell in love, andinnocently looked for ways on how
they can spend more time livingwith the one they love before
slowly disintegratingand passing
away.
NOVEMBER 20 5:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS ETHICS OFFICE
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THE SYMBOL PROJECT PROCESS BOOK (COVER)8 1 /2 X 1 1
Cover for the process book for the symbol project containing
the documentations for the creation of the Petersen AutomotiveMuseum poster and Kat Von Ds High Voltage Tattoo poster
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HIGH VOLTAGE TATTOO POSTER2 4 X 3 6
Poster created for Kat Von Ds High Voltage Tattoo. This is a
symbol poster that uses the black horse to relate to the chosenbusiness for the Symbol Project. This poster focused more on
the word High Voltage. I aimed to convey energy, movement,
and an outburst of emotion through using angled type as well as
the use of strong contrasting colors.
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PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM POSTER2 4 X 3 6
Poster created for The Petersen Automotive Museum. This
is a symbol poster that uses a black horse to relate to the chosenbusiness for the Symbol Project. The Black horse in this poster
symbolizes horse power and the lines, the form it symbolize
movement and speed.
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OF LOVE AND DYSENTERY18 x 24 Screenprint
A screenprinted illustration of a girl and a cockroach who fall
in love. This was screenprinted in black stonehenge paperusing neon green ink. Edition of 25
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OBAMA RECESS POSTER1 8 x 2 4
A poster for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
(CSPG.) Part of the Presidential Rouges gallery that tacklescontroversies surrounding American Presidents.
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MAGLUTA1 1 x 1 7 , 3 0 0 p p i
An interpretation of the Modern Filipino Woman who is
trapped in a traditional culture while having a westernizedoutlook in her life.
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WHEN LOVE ARRIVES (TYPOGRAPHIC VIDEO)1 0 8 0 p
A typographic video of Ph il Kay and Sarah Kayes spoken
word poetry When Love Arrives. The video also incorporatesframe by frame animations done in Photoshop.
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THE GRATITUDE PROJECT WEBSITEA t y p o g r a p h i c w e b s i t e d e s i g n c o n c e p t
A website about sending gratitude to people from different
parts of the world, wether they are your loved ones orstrangers who need to feel loved.
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DRAWING PEOPLE ON CHATROULETTEGesture sketches of s t rangers on chatroulet te .com
Rapid sketches of strangers on chatroulette.com using the
websites built-in drawing application and a pen tablet.
Duration: 5:37
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WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR MOBILE APPL i s t - M a k i n g M o b i l e A p p l i c a t i o n d e s i g n c o n c e p t
I developed the concept and the design for a list-making
mobile application that allows you to list down the things youare thankful for to make yourself feel greatful and happy.
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HEART ON MY SLEEVE - TYPOGRAPHIC VIDEOS t o p M o t i o n A n i m a t i o n
A stop motion animation of handmade type made with found
objects for Olly Murrs song entitled Heart on My Sleeve.
Duration: 0:33
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Melvin Alvarez
Portfolio 2013
(310) 431-6536
DESIGN SKILLS
Illustration
Typography
Motion Graphics
2D Animation
HTML/CSS
3D Modelling
3D Animation
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Screen printing
Book binding
Letterpress
Monoprint
Woodcut
Linocut
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Flash
Painter
Blender
Cinema 4D
Maya
ToonBoom Studio
Flipbook
Microsoft Office
E D U C A T I O N
May 2014 (Anticipated)
BFA in Communication Arts
major in Graphic Design
Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA
May 2011
BA in Multimedia Arts
major in Animation
Asia Pacific College
Makati City, Philippines
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