the grugan portfolio
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A portfolio of Charles Grugan's graphic design work.TRANSCRIPT
Charles GruganGraphic Designer
Portfolio
Packaging, Web& Interactive
My Challenge for Brown Fox was to create a print campaign, multimedia campaign and a web site for Brownfox brewery, a brewery of my own creation. The focus of the four distinct beers created was to capture the essence of and celebrate type face design. Beginning this project took an extensive amount of research to select which type faces were worthy enough to have a beer named after them. The four that I ended up with were Bodoni, Times New Roman, Univers, and Optima.
Screenshot from Brown Fox Brewery Web siteBrownfox.com
(Currently located at www.charlesgrugan.com/beersite
Identity Systems
The goal for my blue Cross and Blue Shield project (shown right) was to take an established brand identity and update it’s look. I chose to take on the challenge of re-creating an identity for Independence Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The Results are shown right, followed by pages excerpted from the identity manual.
Manual Booklet Cover
Corporate Identity Manual
An inside Spread of the Manual
Flash Animation
The images shown to the right are screen captures from vv a screen saver that I was selected to create to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cabrini College. The screen saver was loaded onto every campus computer and served as the screen saver for the college for two years. It consisted of images of the campus from the early 20th century up to present day.
The images appeared to be “tossed” onto the wooden desktop, appearing from off screen, landing on the table and coming to rest before being accompanied by captions with information about each photo.
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Cabrini College 50th Anniversary
Along with the Screensaver shown above, I created the following panels which were included in exhibits throughout the campus in historical buildings.
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In 1979 and 1980, Cabrini was the host site
for the Special Olympics, games for special
needs children that were coordinated and
sponsored by education students. Eagles
coach Dick Vermeil was the honored guest
in 1980 (below.) Chaplain Fr. Jack Replogle S.J.,
seen with participants in the gym (left,) was
involved as was much of the campus commu-
nity.
Cabrini was the hostfor the Special Olympics
Panel documenting events in Cabrini College’s history including a visit from Eagle’s Head
coach Dick Vermeil
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Superthon, begun in 1984, was an SGA
sponsored weekend that raised funds for
specific charities. A feature of the 1985 Su-
perthon was a three legged race on the cam-
pus lawn (right.) In 1987, junior and senior wom-
en had fun in the process of making money
for the Hemophilia Foundation (right.) Class of
‘94 jello wrestlers Carin Pesotski and Steve
Murray competed in 1993 for the benefit of a
fund for terminally ill children.
Superthonraised funds for
charities
Panel documenting events in Cabrini College’s history including relay races and jello wres-
tling.
2D Design & Page Layout
I have experience in 2D design for various purposes. Some examples are shown to the right starting with the DVD cover artwork for the short film called A Nation Divided, a film about the anti-war movement and how it changed America.
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On the next page I have included a spread from a newsletter I designed as a student. The newsletter focused on a range of different art forms around the world.
A Nation Divided
...A view into the anti-war movement in America
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Paradigm Productions Presents...
A closer look into the anti-war move-ment in America.A Nation Divided includes shocking footage of the Kent State mas-sacre, interviews with Vietnam veterans, a historian, a psychologist and a Catholic priest.
Vietnam veteranDon Yost shares hisfeelings about war.
Running time: 26 min
224 Corwin Terrace West Chester, PA 19380 © 2007 Paradigm Productions. All Rights Reserved. WARNING: For private home use only. Federal law provides severe and civil criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of copyrighted motion pictures and video formats.
PARADIGN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS A DAVID DAMIANO, GREGORY STECIW AND JONATHAN BARNETT FILM ,“A NATION DIVIDED” FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DON YOST, DAVID EVANS, HANK DELANY,
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DVD jacket cover for A Nation DividedAn Independent film about that takes a look
at the anti- war movement and what influences it had on America.
Much has already been written de-coding, deconstructing, and debunking Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, in-cluding Tim Callahan’s critical review in Skeptic. But since then the book has become a cult hit, having sold over 25 million copies in 44 languages, and the paperback edition is not even out yet! It reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list on April 6, 2003, and has stayed on the list for 103 straight weeks (as of this writing), half at the No. 1 position (and nev-er below No. 5). As a consequence, Brown’s three other novels have now sold over 7 million copies, earning him an estimated $50 million in the last two years. In addition, a film starring Tom Hanks is in production, a sequel is in the works, and at least 20 other nonfiction books have now been pub-lished by other authors in response, promising to help readers “decode” it in some way. And if all that wasn’t enough, in March 2005, Cardinal Tarci-sio Bertone, head of doctrinal ortho-doxy for the Vatican, issued an official statement on behalf of the Catholic church, calling the novel “a sack full of lies” and urging Christians not to read it. Thus, in addition to it being appropriate to revisit The Da Vinci Code, I also think that its critics have been too soft and that there are even deeper flaws in the book that need to be revealed.
By definition a novel is fiction, so it would seem that Cardinal Ber-tone’s assessment is irrelevant. But, in fact, Brown says in the book: “All descriptions of artwork, architec-ture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.” In this “factual novel,” Brown makes some extremely remarkable claims that, if true, would revolutionize not only all of the Christian religion, but much of history as well. Brown would have us believe that the practices of early Christianity were vastly different than we have been taught, and that a huge conspiracy has prevented us from knowing this. A patriarchal plot by a famous Roman emperor obliterated the early Christians’ worship of “the sacred feminine.” Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and sired a royal bloodline that continues to this day. A secret society of some of
Organizing an auction of student art-work is a great way to showcase artistic abilities, place emphasis on the fact that children’s artwork can be considered true art, and to earn money for your
students and for a charity or your own classroom art budget. It is not at all dif-ficult to set up an auction, and the thrill of the event will start long before the designated day and last long after.
Over the years I have organized sev-eral art auctions, each one a triumph in terms of the confidence and pure delight it has given my students. It is my hope that the following sugges-tions will help clarify the procedure for setting up a student art auction.
FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN AUCTION First of all, decide who will benefit from the money you raise from the auction. I give 50 percent of the selling price of a piece of artwork to the artist. The oth-er 50 percent can go to the school art budget or you might prefer to donate it to a charity. While the money is always welcome to supplement art budgets, donating to a charity helps teach an important life concept. One year, for “Make A Difference Day,” my students all made artworks based on animals. Half of the proceeds of the auction that year went to our local Humane Society. The students felt great knowing they helped raise money for a worthy cause.
Secondly, obtain the approval of your
Rarely do scientists try to harness the artistic possibilities of what they see under the microscope. But Anastasios John Hart, a mechani-cal engineer from M.I.T., has done exactly this by creating art from his research on carbon nanotubes, which are extremely strong, tensile structures typically used in next-gen circuitry and optics.
“As I studied carbon nanotube growth during my Ph.D. research at M.I.T., I recognized the beauty of these nanotube structures as viewed in the electron microscope, and then began to realize their artistic potential,” says Hart.
In late 2005, Hart started experimenting with sculpting carbon na-notubes, one-atom-thick sheets of graphite (called graphene) rolled up into a seam-less cylinder with a diameter of 1 nanometer. Because carbon nanotubes grow on a silicon sub-strate, he says, he began to sculpt them by alter-ing the shape or thickness of the substrate.
Hart also has learned to mod-ify the growth
rate, which he says “causes the nanotubes to collectively bend, split, ripple, or to grow in unexpected shapes.” Once they achieve
the shape he wants, he captures the image by optically pho-tographing or scanning it with an electron microscope.
Recently, he has started adding color to some of the images using Photoshop.
Hart has started a Web site called Nanobliss (www.nanobliss.com) and joined an artists group called Collision Collective, whose members make art using new materials, interactivity, ro-botics, performance, time, and technological experimentation. Although Hart is passionate about his art, he is not about to trade in his lab coat for a beret.
“I’m still very much a scientist,” he says. “But I now see how artistic endeavors can enhance the presentation and visu-alization of science, and how labora-tory techniques such as fabrication and self-assembly can be a new art form. I think nanotube art is just the beginning.”
For more information, email Stanley Warren at
The DaVinci Code Cult:A Critical Look at Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Codeby Rober Shaefer
Micro Art:John Heart’s nano masterpiecesby Stanley Warren
history’s most famous scientists and artists has been dedicated to preserv-ing these ancient secrets for almost a thousand years. At a minimum, these claims would overthrow more than a century’s worth of painstaking re-search by serious scholars from the most respected universities in the world. If ever there were an extraor-dinary historical claim that requires extraordinary historical proof, this is it. How good is the proof that Brown presents?
The principal claim to support Brown’s radical historical revision is found in the statements by a charac-ter in the novel, Leigh Teabing, who is a Grail researcher and scholar: “These are photocopies of the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea scrolls, which I men-tioned earlier,” Teabing announces, “[they are} the earliest Christian records” (245). This is spectacularly false. The Dead Sea scrolls are indeed historical documents of almost un-paralleled significance. However, they give us no direct knowledge about early Christianity. While the Dead Sea Scrolls certainly add enormously to our knowledge of Judaism during the historical period in which Christian-ity began and spread, they do not so much as mention Jesus of Nazareth, or any of his followers, or even the movement that came to be known as Christianity. So for Brown to inject the Dead Sea Scrolls as source docu-ments that supposedly overturn our understanding of early Christianity is ludicrous.
What are the earliest surviving Christian texts? If you want to read them, you will find them in the New Testament. Schol-ars believe that Paul’s epistle, now known as 1 Thessalonians, was written during his second evangelical journey, about the year 51. That would make it the earliest of all surviving Christian documents. Galatians was prob-ably written during Paul’s third evangelical journey, around 54-58. The Book of Acts appears to have been completed by the year 61, al-though some portions of it appear to be earlier still, and some editing may have occurred a few years later.1 The Gos-
pel of Mark is unquestionably the old-est surviving gospel. It is usually dated around the year 70. Matthew is later than Mark, but was composed be-fore 100. The Gospel of Luke was composed around the year 100. John was written a few years later, but before 120. There is some quib-bling about these dates, but New Testament scholars would accept them as being reasonably close.For more information email
principal and select a date. I have held some auctions on Saturdays as part of school carnivals, in connec-tion with chili suppers, and as events unto themselves on an evening after school. Of course, the more events you have going on at one time at your school, the larger crowd you will draw.
Decide how long you think the auction should last. Fund-raising auc-tions always go slower than regular household auctions. I generally count on selling only about 40 pieces in one hour, as it is important to take the time to briefly describe each piece, extolling its beauty and individuality. A two-hour auction (80 pieces total) is about as long as I like to go with student artwork. If the auction lasts longer, the crowd can get restless. It helps to have food and beverages for sale during the auction, which can be an additional source of income.
For more information, email:Judy Bowen at
Organizing an Auction:A Closer Look at key steps to a sucessful auctionby Judy Bowen
Inside spread from “Global Expressions”A newsletter that focuses on art forms
across the globe.
Branding & Murals
Tanzanian Woman and baby is a non profit organization that was formed in 2009 to aid the growing problem of maternal death in Tanzania and other third world countries due to inadequate maternal health care.
Working on the project has helped me to become aware of how different life is in developing countries and how we can and should do something to help.
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The mural project pictured on the following page was assigned to me during the summer of 2010. During the Months of July and August, I worked diligently with the Student government board of West Chester University to get a layout for the mural approved. Unfortunately, once the artwork was approved the winter weather season stopped us from being able to paint and I look forward to finishing the project in the spring of 2011.
Tanzanian Woman and baby Logo
When West Chester University’s Art Department Chair, John Baker approached me to create the layout for their newest mural project, I was honoured and delighted. Images of campus life and iconic campus building immediately began floating in my head. With some hard work and determination, I presented the student government board with many layout options with the one pictured above being selected for the final design. Once the danger of frost is gone for the year, I eagerly await the beginning of the painting process and I look forward to seeing the finished product as I pass by it for years to come.
West Chester University’s Campus Life Mural layout completed in Photoshop
and on- wall rendering.
What people have to say about CharlesGary Miller TSI associates:
“I have worked with Charlie while he was with Performance Food Centers and found him to be a talented and competent designer. Charlie will be an asset to your firm with his knowledge and skill!”
Dan Young, Owner/CEO Performance Food Centers:
“As the president and CEO of Performance Food Centers, Corp., I have had the pleasure of knowing Charlie Grugan for the last 4 years. I know that during his tenure here, he has been a tremendous student and an asset to the community as well as our organization.[...] Besides being a joy to work with, Charlie is a take-charge person who is able to present creative ideas and communicate the benefits. His even temperament demonstrates his ability to lead.”
Stephanie Lantz-Goldstein, Founder and President at 4KIDsNEEDs,President/CEO at Lantz-Goldstein Consulting Group, LLC:
“Charles is a creative individual with the ability to translate an individuals’ needs into a logo/design that directly reflects their identity and brand.”
Dr. Jerry Zurek, Professor of journalism, communication, social justice - coordinate and plan department development at Cabrini College:
“Charlie has a “can do” personality and provided creative graphic design solutions on deadline.”
Megan Westerback. Senior Designer at Performance Food Centers (personal friend, former classmate and colleague):
“Charlie and I clicked the second we met, even though to this day he said I completely ignored him during orientation! As a designer it is always nice to have someone else look over your work and give you feed back and I’ve always been able to turn to him for an outside opinion. Our styles are completely different so in a way we complement each other. He is truly a go-getter and hard worker. He never gives up!”
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