I have been chosen by the Cal State faculty to be the coordinator for the 2012 Funes Digital Art Contest. Here is the poster I created for the event.
April 5, 2012 | Categories: Graphic Design, My Photography | Tags: 2012, art, Art contest, cal state, Cal state san marcos, contest, CSUSM, donovan olson, Funes, Funes Digital Art Contest, Graphic Design, poster, poster design, San Marcos | Leave a comment
Here are some Minimalist Portraits I made of myself and my friends. I was inspired by the artist Ali Jabbar. These were all done in Adobe Illustrator.
November 27, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: Adobe, art, blog, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, Graphic Design, Illustrator, minimalism, minimalist, minimalist portraits, portraiture, self portrait, student | 1 Comment
These are some Panos that I have taken for Panorama week in class.
November 15, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, panorama, panoramic photography, panos, photography, Rancho Penasquitos, San Marcos, tunica, vertical panos | 1 Comment
Here are some night photos I took in Oceanside.
November 15, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, CSUSM, donovan olson, night panos, night photography, oceanside, Oceanside Pier, panos, photography, student | Leave a comment
Here is the poster I made that will be used for the Silence and Noise multidisciplinary art event here at Cal State San Marcos on Friday Dec. 9th.
November 12, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, art event, Cal state san marcos, cool, CSUSM, design, Donovan, donovan olson, flyer, multidisciplinary art, neon sign, poster, poster design, silence and noise, student | Leave a comment
Here’s a recent project I made for my Process of Art class. I took popular company logos and flipped flopped them with competitor’s logos in Adobe Illustrator. 
October 27, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: albertsons, art, at&t, bridgestone, chevrolet, chevy, coca-cola, company logos, coors light, corona, CSUSM, design, dhl, donovan olson, famous logos, flip flopped logos, flipped-flopped logos, ford, goodyear, Graphic Design, Illustrator, in-n-out, logos, McDonalds, paramount, pepsi, popular logos, subway, swapping logos, switched logos, switching logos, ups, verizon, vons, walt disney, Wendys | 2 Comments
October 25, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, beach, beach photography, Cal state san marcos, CSUSM, Donovan, donovan olson, harbor, HDR, lifeguard tower, oceanside, Oceanside Harbor, photography, seagulls, student | Leave a comment
This is a collage of photos I recently took on a cloudy day at the beach.
October 4, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, beach, beach collage, beach photography, black and white, black and white beach, collage photography, CSUSM, donovan olson, donovan olson photography, oceanside, Oceanside Pier, student | 1 Comment
A collage of photos taken at Cal State San Marcos.
October 4, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, cal state, Cal state san marcos, cal state san marcos campus, campus, campus collage, collage, CSUSM, CSUSM campus, donovan olson, logo, photography, school | Leave a comment
Here are my three triptychs for this week’s assignment.
September 20, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, beach, Cal state san marcos, CSUSM, Digital photo, donovan olson, Downtown, music, photography, San Diego, San Marcos, Triptych | 2 Comments
These CGI batteries were done by Derk de Wit from Zuidbroek, The Netherlands. Derk liked my Cloveready batteries logo I made, seen here, and used it to create these cool CGI batteries. My original design is a play on the Eveready batteries logo. The program he used is called VUE 6 Infinite.
June 17, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, CGI, cloveready, cloveready batteries, CSUSM, Derk de Wit, design, donovan olson, Eveready batteries, Graphic Design, Vue, Vue 6 infiinite | Leave a comment
This is a stylistic word cloud made using the website Tagxedo.com . I used the most common words found on my blog to create a word cloud of my shark logo.
April 13, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design, My Photography | Tags: art, blog, cal state, CSUSM, design, Donovan, donovan olson, Graphic Design, shark, student, Tagxedo, tagxedo.com, type, typography, word art, Word Cloud | Leave a comment
Here are 20 pages laid out as 10 spreads for my artist’s books class.
ARTIST BOOK 20 pages
April 6, 2011 | Categories: My Photography | Tags: art, artists books, book, CSUSM, CSUSM art, donovan olson, Illustrator, photography, photoshop, visual arts | 2 Comments
Here is an updated version of the Making Connections assignment. I decided to do a list of the top things I’ve wanted for Christmas every year since 1992 when I was 5 years old. Each Christmas Ornament represents a year range.
April 1, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, blog, chart, christmas, Christmas infographic, design, donovan olson, Graphic Design, Illustrator, infographic, Making Connections | Leave a comment
For my list I chose the top 40 golf courses in America according to Golf.com
March 18, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: 40, art, art design, blog, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, golf course, Golf Courses, Graphic Design, Illustrator, list, student, top 40 | Leave a comment
March 18, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, counterpoint, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, Illustrator, point, Point/Counterpoint, shark, student, typography | Leave a comment
This assignment had us re-create a local restaurant menu using only a grid format. It was an assignment focused on visual hierarchy. I chose a menu from North County: Tavern + Bowl.
Specifications were: Use 2 fonts only (like a serif and sans serif) and up to 3 colors. No images were allowed. I bended the rules and added a ransom like font, but only for the name of
the restaurant and not in the menu items themselves.
March 11, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, CSUSM, designed menu, donovan olson, Graphic Design, grid, menu, menu of options, re-design, restaurant menu, San Marcos, tavern, vector | Leave a comment
A poster with facts about me and what’s important to me. Font used is Trajan Pro.
February 25, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, donovan olson, facts at hand, Graphic Design | Leave a comment
A type anatomy poster using only letters and numbers from the font Book Antiqua.
February 18, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: anatomy of type, art, artist, book antiqua, cool, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, elefont, Graphic Design, iron man, poster, type anatomy, typography | 1 Comment
Combining letters and digits in Illustrator
February 15, 2011 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: art, combined, CSUSM, digits, Donovan, donovan olson, Graphic Design, Letters, typography | Leave a comment
My vector self portrait done in Illustrator using the pen tool and a large number of layers and fills. Link to PDF attached at the bottom of the post.
LINK TO PDF ——-> Vector Portrait
December 15, 2010 | Categories: Graphic Design | Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, art and design, blog, Cal state san marcos, computer, cool, CSUSM, design, donovan olson, Illustrator, illustrator cs5, people, portrait, realism, realistic, San Marcos, self portrait, student, vector, vector self-portrait, voice on a page, voiceonapage, voiceonapage.com | Leave a comment
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