Lila Burns is first and foremost a designer; but she also finds herself involved in motion, film, illustration, web, and songwriting. Read More
This year, i’ve worked on several ‘renegade’ posters, outside of class, all collaborations.
Posters made for a Joel Evey (CalArts Alum) Lecture. There were about 18 total, each mono-prints. Each poster had a set of hand-carved stamps for the type and the rest were found stamps (thank you Michael’s). Funnest poster to work on to date.
These were a collaboration with Ben Woodlock (Calarts MFA)
I recently finished a 3-month internship with the fabulous Modern Dog with Mike Strassburger, Robynne Raye, Shogo Ota, and my fellow intern Tori King. Here are a few projects I worked on while I was there.
Every year the undergraduate design program at CalArts organizes a showcase of all the program’s motion work. This year was themed around Horror movie genres, and reality tv (a kind of staged making-of).
Director: Terry Lee, Art Direction: Lila Burns Packaging/Poster Production: Lila Burns, Matt King, Christina Rodriguez, Jazmyn Faulkner, and Tiffanie Tran
We were given a selection of photos, and asked to chose one, come up with a word/phrase to sum it up and create a typographic tshirt, packaging, and documentation for it. I chose a sears-portrait of a tiny dog, and thought ‘chaos’ fit quite nicely. (Shirt models: Tiffanie Tran and Pocket Datau)
We were asked to create a complex, and a simple movie poster, as well as a title sequence for a single film. I chose Bruce Robinson’s “How to Get Ahead in Advertising.”
Every year, one of the undergraduate design classes are asked to design packaging for the upcoming CalArts Jazz CD (all original compositions by CalArts music students). One is chosen (Becky Song’s awesome design was chosen this year). My design focused on motion and pattern.
We were asked to create a magazine all about a sub-culture of our choosing. I chose competitive beard and moustache growing, which turned into overall beard and moustache growing culture.
Our instructions were to choose an Architect or group of Architects and create a double-sided poster expressing their work. One side was denotative and informational, while the other side more connotative.
We were asked to create and name a company (existential detective agency) and create the logotype, stationery, endtags, and corresponding collateral.
Frame by Frame is a showcase featuring both animators and designers from CalArts. The show was organized by Daryn Wakasa with a small group of designers in the design program. Alongside working on the showcase’s website, the design team also worked on several 5 second interstitials for the show open.
Every year, calarts design students are given the opportunity to submit a calarts tshirt design to be screenprinted/sold. (wolf: BFA1, hands: BFA2, cartoon: BFA3)
series of pen & ink illustrations with digitally added color all about the french revolution
here is a collection of various motion projects initiated both independently and/or for a class.
SPEAK! came to me about doing a video sometime last fall. i created it during the CalArts practicum session.
Two posters with corresponding postcards for the film / webseries Sands of Mexico.
I chose Utah to create a two sided atlas about. On one side i focused on the history of the state, while on the other, i discussed some of the state’s many destinations.
I chose the 1920s, and created a timeline discussing Art, Design, Fashion, Architecture, and important events of the decade.
I chose Chuck Palahnuik’s Choke, created two separate concepts from the story and a single cover design for each. One concept is about main character’s inner dilema, the other is about being controlled by symbols
40 pages exploring the 6 visual contrasts in design: scale, weight, texture, direction, form, and space.
the electric lemonade project’s silkscreened albums: “connect the dots” (2007), “foofaRAW” (2008).
