Brianna Niemoeller

Ladybug

This piece serves to be placed as two spreads in a magazine. These spreads were intended for Tom Tom Magazine, which specializes in female musicians, mainly drummers. Ladybug is Delaware's leading all-female music festival, and it was created to combat Firefly Music Festival's lack of female performers and expensive tickets. By creating an open and diverse environment, Ladybug hopes to inspire and include women, while making a stand against male-dominated music festivals.

I chose the vibrant colors to represent the fun nature and bright future of this music festival. I intended that by keeping it colorful and playful, readers would associate this good energy with that of the festival.

I take no credit in writing the text on my design. All text material is sourced from this article.

I was contracted for a freelance graphic design project to create a poster to advertise music lessons for PBMR Music in Chicago.

Mockup source: https://www.freepik.com/psd/hand

Ohhh boyyy

A small town boy, Jake Bugg uses his past as material for his music. He centers around folk-inspired music that tends to focus on sad or lonely times. And so, I created an alternative version of his first self-titled album. I incorporated a hand holding a cigarette because smoking is a recurring theme among his songs. The combination of the colors and the subject is meant to evoke a moody, dark feeling that embodies the essence of his music.

I entered an Adobe contest to design a movie poster for Zach Braff. We were given no plot or title, so we could create whatever we wanted. My concept is based off the New York City subway line. If you have used the subway there before, you might be familiar with the yellow line right by the tracks. This pictures a person waiting for the subway with his or her backpack and parrot. Where is this person going? I don’t know. Why is there a parrot? I also don’t know. It just felt right.

The Quick Brown F….

I made this shirt purely out of boredom when I lived alone. There are only three in existence. It makes almost no sense to anyone other than me. Such is life.

Featured is Beekman, the esteemed cat of my friend’s aunt that lives the high life in the Upper West Side. There are also my roommate’s shoes. She’s nice; she likes to play the guitar. There’s also some silverware from a Chinese restaurant near Battery Park. The background is Philadelphia (“Go Birds!”)—but distorted. Then, obviously, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

In today’s present climate, there exists a large discrepancy between the rich and the poor, or in other words, the wealth gap is alive and well. Conservatives often boast about the benefits of the trickle down theory, which states that benefits given to the rich will eventually “trickle down” to also aid the poor. Such benefits include tax cuts for four main groups: businesses, capital gains, high-income earners, and dividends. The issue with this theory is that in reality, only a few actually benefit, who happen to be nearly exclusively the already wealthy white population. The poorer population, mainly people of color, tend to suffer the consequences of this selfish, unsuccessful economic theory. As a result, there is currently a significant economic division between people of different races in the United States.

In this piece, the sentences “Racism divides. Divisions cause fractures. Fractures destroy societies.” are repeated continuously. There are also four sections to represent the four groups that benefit from the tax cuts as the words trickle down the cone to visualize the trickle down theory. In addition to this, the transition from a green to yellow color demonstrates how those at the top live a rich and fertile life, while those at the bottom live a poor and dry life.

Instructed to use the first letter of your name to create a logo for yourself, I decided to use the "B" in Brianna to construct an ice cream cone. I figured that the combination of my love for the treat and my work experience in the frozen desserts industry that this would be a perfect image to embody me. I believe that this logo would pair well with an ice cream company, given its simplicity in both color and design.

Assigned to create a texture using only text, I based my concept around the transition to high school. My school had a poor reputation, so I had low expectations going into my freshman year. However, I absolutely adored my new school and friends; hence, everything is not what it seems. I then decided that line would be my recurring theme throughout the project. I found this image online of a shell under a very powerful microscope. Oddly enough, the texture I have created are the colors and shapes of the shell when zoomed in so much. Given its unrecognizable nature, I decided to replicate this shell image using only text to adhere to my concept.

In 2018, Notre Dame’s radio station WVFI and the Snite Museum of Art collaborated on a project titled “Art on the Aux.” In this, radio hosts created playlists for specific galleries, using the artists and their pieces as inspiration for the song choices. Additionally, curators placed barcodes in the galleries that when scanned, redirected users immediately to the Spotify playlist that corresponds with that gallery.

The exhibition was titled “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection.” In the description directly from the Snite’s website, “drawing on the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, this exhibition celebrates Modern and contemporary artists of African descent, many of whom were historically overlooked by collectors, critics, scholars, galleries, and museums. A central theme is the power of abstract art as a profound political choice and as a declaration of freedom. These artists not only resisted racist imagery, but also, pressure to create positive representations of Black Americans.”

Because of my radio show, I had the opportunity to create my own playlist. I focused on the artist Sam Gilliam. Gilliam is a Black painter who uses abstract shapes and bold colors to often make political commentary on the black experience in the United States. The first to create any of this kind, he is most well-known for his canvas draping.

For my playlist, I decided to stay true to the nature of the entire exhibit and included only Black musicians. I decided to make the opening and concluding songs both instrumental because I wanted to evoke the abstract nature of Gilliam’s work. I then included several songs with lyrics to provide the comfort of voice as one looks through the gallery. I intended for all of the songs to be subtly theatrical—just enough to recognize the beauty of the music without subtracting from the experience of visiting an art exhibition.

You can listen to the playlist here.