Friday, September 25, 2009



In my advanced graphic design class we are going to be designing a poster series advertising a hypothetical AFI event celebrating the work of a director featuring three of his films. The director I've chosen is Billy Wilder. A contemporary of auteurs like Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder is much more understated and in my opinion underrated. Not only was he one of the preeminent directors of the film noir era but also continued to consistently produce great films for over 50 years. The three movies I am focusing on are Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and Sunset Boulevard. In addition to the poster we are going to be designing a typeface (YAY!) to reflect the style of the director and/or films. So I have been researching handdrawn titles from the 1940s. Some inspiration.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

I was watching the Typophile Film Fest opening title sequence and was reminded of how much I love the intersection of meat and typography. So, I thought I would just post a few meaty typefaces as well as beefjerky business cards. I even found a magazine called Meatpaper that is all about art and ideas about meat.





And what goes better with meat than potatoes. There's even a time-lapse video.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Back to school already! I can hardly believe it, but I am very excite about my Advanced Motion Graphics course. I'm sure I'll be posting projects soon enough. In the meantime, here's a little inspiration:

Tuesday, July 28, 2009


I am organizing my video projects to put them up on my site and came across this one from my previous video class (not the one this summer) and thought I would share it. The assignment was to edit together a three-minute video about your day based on the sound.

Thursday, July 23, 2009



I must find away to make this mine. Anyone have £2,700.00 they could lend me?



The audio production project from my summer video class: I Am Poseidon! God of the Sea! I Also Teach Water Aerobics On Saturdays by Colin Nissan, published in McSweeney's, and read by Aaron Royer.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another month has gone by without a post! I have finished my summer video class so I expect to post some new work soon. In the meantime, I've been busily preparing for our Twin Peaks Marathon this weekend (we've only been talking about it for a year). In anticipation for the party, here are some great Twin Peaks inspired items I heart.






[Who Killed Laura Palmer Charm Pendant by CharmedMemory; Twin Peaks Pin Set by lolabot; The Owls Are Not What They Seem Cross Stitch and Bookhouse Boys Earrings by thegreatnorthern]

I also still love this Log Lady illustration by seasprayblue.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Randomly stumbled upon some amusing compositions from Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre.



Friday, May 8, 2009

Holy moly! Two month with no updates. I thought I would post some of the work that's been keeping me so busy during the weeks and weeks I've been away.



For my Design Principles and Strategies class we had to design a brand identity for a fictional English tea shop in the trendy Fells Point neighborhood. I choose the name Grey (a play on London weather and English tea varieties). We also had to use our logo to design a number of items including tea packaging (from left to right: Classic Grey, Double Bergamot, and Green Citrus).

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

In my Design Principles and Strategies class, I've been doing a lot of abstract compositions to demonstrate, well, design principles and strategies--not much that I would want to share. But I thought I would go ahead and post this week's assignment, which was to make patterns demonstrating the concepts of repetition, similarity, and anomaly because patterns are purdy.





Just one more week of abstract concepts (YAY!), and then we'll be doing some book covers, a series/set of three. I think I am going to do a series of Modern American Classics, including Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, and White Noise by Don DeLillo. Gotta get reading...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009


Some really beautiful stop motion work by Oren Lavie and a sweet song to boot...

Monday, February 23, 2009

I've been working on a little speculative project and have been fiddling with some cover ideas, and I was wondering which cover you all think looks best. It's a graphic novel set in the 40s in the classic crime/mystery genre. Any and all comments are welcome. There is a poll on the side there if you want your vote to be counted.

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Monday, February 16, 2009


I saw this technique used on a poster about a year ago. Just this week I saw it used on a Threadless T and the new Animal Collective record, Merriweather. Pretty neat, huh?

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Just six [tiny] days away from the start of the Spring semester, and I am still finishing up my over-the-break projects. But as of right now, the web site kristinroyer.com is indeed done.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

In addition to working on my website, I've also been designing my business card, so I thought I would post the (almost definitely) final design.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

I've been working on getting my website done before school starts up again, and to that end, I spent the night writing my bio. All I can say is self promotion is a loathsome undertaking. Let me know what you think...

Kristin Royer is a graphic designer and writer living outside of Baltimore in Catonsville, Md., the hometown of TV legend David Hasselhoff. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in English and an interest in graphic design. After spending the past seven years earning a living as a writer and editor, taking on freelance design work and geeking out on typography in her free time, she is now a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Integrated Design at the University of Baltimore. In her spare time, she enjoys starting short stories, daydreaming about becoming a comic book creator, and referring to herself in the third person.