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Top Projects on SVA Portfolios for May 2024

The month’s notable projects include phone doodles made on an iPhone, a Spring-themed fashion photo shoot, and an identity design project for the Caldera Arts’ annual Hearth Festival.

May 29, 2024
Three pictures of an old smartphone with colorful illustrations on each of them. The first one has a green background and depicts an abstracted face with a big colorful tongue and tears falling from the eyes. the second one has an orange background and depicts a flower with a face looking up at a butterfly. the third one depicts a bee with a honeypot on top of a flower, both the flower and the bees have faces and they're looking at each other fondly. Picture of an old smartphone with a colorful illustration of a bee with a honeypot on top of a flower. Both the flower and the bees have faces and they're looking at each other fondly.
Credit: Yubin Lee
Credit: Yubin Lee

As always, this latest roundup of the most-discussed projects from SVA Portfolios makes for a collection of inspiring and impressive art and design. This edition, comprising the top posts for May 2024, includes an identity design project for the Caldera Arts’ annual Hearth Festival, imaginative doodles created on an iPhone, and minimalist designs for a short essay book series.

Three large posters displayed on a green wall. They are all the same but with different colors, the first one is pink, the second one is yellow and the third one is blue. They all have green detailing of plants and other little doodles surrounding the center which reads "Caldera Arts Hearth Festival" Three large posters displayed on a green wall. They are all the same but with different colors, the first one is pink, the second one is yellow and the third one is blue. They all have green detailing of plants and other little doodles surrounding the center which reads "Caldera Arts Hearth Festival"
Credit: Shantanu Sharma
Credit: Shantanu Sharma
Portrait of a woman with her eyes closed serenely and several pink flowers in her hair. Portrait of a woman with her eyes closed serenely and several pink flowers in her hair.
Credit: Hannah Jenny
Credit: Hannah Jenny
Picture of an open book, with a two page spread of a geometrical triangular pattern. The background is white and the lines are red, yellow, and blue. Picture of an open book, with a two page spread of a geometrical triangular pattern. The background is white and the lines are red, yellow, and blue.
Credit: Diane Wilder
Credit: Diane Wilder

3. Diane Wilder (BFA 2012 Design), WOVN Identity Manual.


Picture of four paper booklets stacked on top of each other. The bottom two have the covers showing, the first one which is black with the white silhouette of a moth, and the title reads "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf. The second one is a red page with the white silhouette of a baby, with the title "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. The booklets on top of each other bottom ones are displaying their open pages with written text. Picture of four paper booklets stacked on top of each other. The bottom two have the covers showing, the first one which is black with the white silhouette of a moth, and the title reads "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf. The second one is a red page with the white silhouette of a baby, with the title "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. The booklets on top of each other bottom ones are displaying their open pages with written text.
Credit: Maxwell L. Beucler
Credit: Maxwell L. Beucler
Picture of an old smartphone with a colorful illustration of sunflowers. Picture of an old smartphone with a colorful illustration of sunflowers.
Credit: Yubin Lee
Credit: Yubin Lee

1. Yubin Lee (BFA 2023 Illustration), Phone Doodles.


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For the five most-discussed projects of April 2024, click here.