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Quinton Quaye Graphic Designer
Poster Design
is Golden in Beijing All
All is Golden in BeijingA poster used for promotion material for summer time in BeijingSummer,2012
Electric Flue is Western Michigan University engineering project.Designed is the poster for their prototype project which was displayed for a regional competition.Spring, 2012
Corrine Bailey Rae music posterA fictional music poster to promote a favorite musician and song.Graphic Form, Spring 201091x128cm
One Minute Is a design which was used for Beijing’s international short film festival in May, 2012.
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Late Night BroadwayAn intern project involving Western Michigan University theatre group. Intern I, Spring 2012
Book Design
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Living on theStreets of
Beijing
The season I dream to see once more! To be honest I thought the stress, people, and environment themselves would have done away with my life, but I survive once again to continue a road of promising dreams. It has been a tough road this past year, truly one that has broken my intellect to make me reconstruct my thoughts, education, living style and focus. I feel I strayed away from my true goals in life. Although were minor, I felt they made a deep impact in what I was living for. Life itself is a various winding road that has many mysterious, troublesome, yet exciting roads. If taken with caution, expertise and restraint, ones “being, mind and destination” can be carefully directed in which they desire. For me, I kind of let things go astray from what I cared for. Why you might ask? Its simple, curiosity~ ones mind
always wants to know the “What if”. Ergo “What if I stood in the middle of the street?” Or “What if I graduated from College with a 4.0?”. Some would say the more dramatic things are the most to plague the mind, such as “ what if I became the president?” Or what if I ask her or he asks me to marry?”, Some could wonder the endless possibilities. But as a progressing professional, the lifestyle I set up for the “now” times could stand for a much longer lifestyle of the future. Therefore, I have slowly regained the old hints of what was previously in my mind for what I wanted to do. Being a small soul such as myself, I have a big heart, and
a big imagination~ ha ha! Many of my friends
would say I am much like a “big kid” but hey, things are, what they are. Losing sight of what reality and what is real to you, makes all the difference. It’s good to dream, but also wonder “would or could those dreams come true?” What do you think the mind is made up of? How much do we as humans use of our minds? 5%? 15%? 30%?…. in any case the real question is the “what if” what if humans used 40% of their minds? What about 75%?? or what about 100% of their brain matter??? Is that possible? The lesson here is keep your mind alive; Without the mind, the body is dead.
It’s Harder When Its You So the chances of you finding the right one is 1 in a million. But when you do find that right one, there always seems to be some small individual fault that’s hidden deep within the relationship that you are not even aware of. You could smile, laugh, cry, even fight. But without talking about it, nothing comes out in the open. Nothing. It’s happening even to me. Hard to believe, but even I have this in my relationship. I think I am doing the right thing, saying the right words, even acting the perfect part. But the second I say some-thing that is congruent to what my loved one thinks, dear God! The world ended and my life explodes into world war III. I don’t per-ceive it, nor do I have advanced thoughts to say or do these types of things, but when I say or do them I have no unction or under-standing why these thing sets my lover off! ? It’s not meant to be as a threat, nor as a terrorist act upon my dear sweet love, but just words, actions that I would say in a normal conversation. Not thinking so much about what I say, just speak; not knowing the
Its Harder When Its You
words I use would be the dagger to my own demise. I try to undo what has been done, to right the wrong, to kiss my way or hug my way back to the happiness that we once had a few seconds ago, but it fails horribly, actually making it worse! She cries, sobs, makes the scene unbearable, my heart wrenches as it desperately tries get the once smiling young lady back to her self. From hug-ging, to missed attempts of kisses, to pushed away hugs and thou-sand Island questions, the plans fail, the heart greaves, the once love that was on top of the world is now at the bottom of the ocean swimming in darkness of the cold. It hurts. No matter how she shakes her head says its nothing, its hurts. A burning feeling deep within burns its way to the top of my soul and Pearce’s its way through my chest, spewing its way onto the floor. As she shoves me away it’s the shove of loneli-ness that I can’t bare. Back to the beginning, back to the beginning I would start all over just to have her back again. Smiling hugging kissing the once loved lover she bludgeoned to death with the feeling of sadness.
啊春假终于到了！不要工作不要听同学们说无稽的事 。上个星期四春假开始了 hmmmm那，有什么计划？ 我想先准备日程然后做好。现在我们过了3天对吗？。。第一天我和朋友们去酒吧 喝酒聊天。同学们， 朋友们，老朋友们， 同事们 都在这酒吧。看见的时候一齐说“你怎么来这儿啊？” 每个星期四，从学校最近的酒吧 (waldos)减价。最大的杯7.5 美元. 星期四晚上6 点开始到2点。所以很多学生去那儿喝酒。学校外边有很多酒吧，ybar，roadhouse， gratto， waldos， the library（firehouse）。在这些午夜以前能点菜。喝酒后我们去Ihop饭店吃午夜早饭lol如果你喝醉了可以去这里解酲啊～ 饭都 好吃菜单不但有早饭，而有晚饭啦。今晚上在IHOP 只有一个服务员两个 厨师做 饭。我和朋友们进出以后看了很多人服务员没有时间帮我们。过了15分能说＂欢 迎， 想点什么菜？＂座位子之后又等
春天来了 .
15分。朋友们都想太过分！等了很久还没点菜啊！他们懊恼， 我还一样＂smooth＂是（很舒服得意思）脑子很清楚。服务来 得时候朋友们不难过长得开行。点菜的时候我问服务员＂为什么只是你自己？他说 两个小时前有同事可是他想回家。所以我让她走。＂ 吃完我们回家。第二天是星期五。这天我觉得一般般。是我＂play＂姐姐的生日以前。所以另外的＂play＂妹 妹想把她惊起生日会。为了妹妹喜欢喝酒，人带来四瓶酒. 我没带了， 我不想feed她脑子“喝酒对身体很好。”。 会开始了。 人一边吃饭一边一边聊天。 吃玩妹妹说“好啊！！ 为了今天是姐姐生日，我们得祝贺她！所以，每个人应该喝酒（shot＝1／16th of a glass）很小酒。一 ，二，三。。。。杯 肚。。子。。够了！ 不能喝下去。妹妹还想喝。姐姐快喝醉了。还一杯脑子肯定离开。 :3 喝完大家想出去。星期五跳舞吧都开。朋友们都想去
wayside我想在脑子里“哎幼 这个地方很无聊。 DJ 不知道怎么做。音乐难听，不清楚，不太smooth” lol但是今天是姐姐 的生日哦。到这里人太少歌坛没有人跳舞。 所以姐姐说“yo！ 大家跟我上歌坛跳舞吧！” 所以我们越跳人越来了。 人喝酒，抽烟，跳舞，聊天，听音乐，看电视。跳舞吧最热闹的时是11点晚上到2早上（am）。跳腻了或者喝醉了人回家。hmmm 第三天是星期六。 妹妹再给我打电话。她问我“你想跟我们去赌场吗？”我当然想去！！！！到现在还没去！今天晚上8点我们开车到那儿～ 赌场是从学校差不多40分钟。到的时候外边很大，冷。 里边，朋友告诉我“你得先去服务台告诉他们你没有折扣卡，他们免费的送给你啦。好啊！！ 我们快走把！要赢钱啊！lol为了我们的肚子很饿想先去“赌场buffet”吃饭。 这里饭
太贵。妹妹”说 啊？15美元？进去以后伸得拉我的手，笑然后说欢迎光临要不然我说批评！” 进后饭好香味的吃完我们去玩儿。因为这是我第一次什么机都不知道怎么用 人都不说， 只顾 赢 赢 赢！！我的天啊！”machines galore“ 人是各种各样的。 人 从21岁到人临死 lol！ literally， 老人带着氧气。空气不太清楚有的人抽烟。我要了40美元都没赢了 别的朋友们赢了很少。 玩腻了lol 我们回家。第四天是星期天最好的天！！！！。。。。
。to be continued
Self-taughtChinese speaker
winsregional competition
Quinton Quaye, a Western Michigan University senior,
won first place May 15 at the Midwest Regional Chinese
Speaking Contest at Northwest University in Chicago, Ill.
“I was shocked that I won the contest,” said Quaye, who is majoring in graphic design with a minor in Chinese. “I thought I would have placed very low,
and I was so nervous at the last minute.”
The win is a testament to Quaye’s personal desire to study and master a foreign language. He competed
against more than 50 contestants, most of whom were students from the University of Chicago and
Northwest University, and took first place in the second-year Chinese level. Contestants were graded
based on the fluidity of their speech, the quality of their use of the “four tones of Chinese,” their special skills in Chinese culture, and their overall presenta-
tion. Quaye presented his sketch with the help of some Chinese partners and his Chinese calligraphy
skills before a panel of 12 judges.
“It is also a testament to the international programs and foreign language education at WMU, said Dr. Xioaojun Wang, WMU professor of Chinese lan-
guage and head of the program, as well as director of the Confucius Institute at WMU. “Our students have been doing extremely well and we are very proud of them. Quinton has proven that when where there is a
will, there is away, and practice makes perfect.”
With a smile, Quaye shared a memory that it was a martial arts movie that sparked his desire to learn
Chinese. “What first piqued my interest in Chinese culture was the film Crouching Tiger Hidden
Dragon,” Quaye said. “I developed a huge crush on one of the movie’s main actors, Zhang Ziyi. I thought she was amazing and so I gave myself a challenge—I
would start learning Chinese so one day I would be fluent enough to have a conversation with her.”
He decided to purchase a Chinese study book and took it everywhere he went, studying on the go
whenever he had a free minute.
Quaye admits that after graduating from high school he came
to the realization that meeting Zhang Ziyiwould never happen. “But I didn’t
stop learning the language because by that time it was my second lifestyle,” he said.
He planned on attending WMU to major in graphic design and minor in jazz music, but when he discov-ered that the University offered Chinese as a minor he decided to continue studying the language to deter-mine if his skills were on par with other novices.During the first meeting of his Chinese class at WMU, he was confident in his skills but still unsure of his abilities to demonstrate them in public. When the teacher asked a question, Quaye raised his hand and answered it. When the professor asked another, he raised his hand again, but the teacher didn’t call on him to answer, skipping him, to choose another student instead. “I thought to myself, wow, I must really have a bad way with Chinese and have no clue what is going on,” he said.
When the class was over, the professor approached him and asked where he learned the language, believ-ing Quaye’s skills were the best she had heard from an American-born student. She wondered if he was from China. Quaye said that experience encouraged him to pursue fluency in Chinese.
In the summer of 2008, Quaye traveled to Beijing, China for a two-week study abroad program. For the summer of 2010, he plans on revisiting Beijing beginning July 7 to attend classes from July 15 to Aug. 25 at the Beijing Culture and Language Center—an intensive study abroad program.
“I’m extremely excited and curious as to what I’m going to encounter while I’m there,” Quaye said. “I love Beijing. It’s the biggest city I have been to and the people are wonderful. The food is out of this world and the environment is one that I can easily adapt to.”
Quaye said he would like move to China after graduating and incorporate both Chinese and graphic design into his career.
Story by Nate Coe
Photography by: Quinton Quaye (Q studios)
The Big Step ForwardDe la rosa “Activo”
Traveling Beijingpart 1
to
Posted on July 21, 2008
Hello all! it’s your buddy the Q I just wanted to start this writing before I got to china. I will try to upload the process of what I have done before I get to
china. But this is part one of who knows how many . but anyway this past week I had to get my visa for china and I had to go to Chicago to turn in my form and say hello to my visa. But when I got there I was so nervous! My hands were shaking I was sweating and I couldn’t stand still. So I got out of the car and walked up to the doors of the building, only to be told the building had moved three blocks down. LOL I was more comfortable with that. So I started walking and I began to look at all the building that are around. It had been a long time since I had been in a city that had so many big buildings and pretty women all around and cool fashion designs. But I finally walked up to the building after crossing a dangerous street which almost killed me by crazy cars. I walked into the building and got onto the elevator. I pressed the fifth floor button and waited. *Sighs* I am almost there. I got off the elevator and walked towards the Chinese consulate office. When I got there I saw many Chinese people and very few Americans or others than Chinese. I took a number and sat down. When my number was called I mustered up my last bit of strength and stepped forward towards the window to get my visa. When I got to the window I was thinking all will be smooth but I was greeted by a very bitter woman who either had a bad day, hated men , or just didn’t like me. But what did I do to deserve her cruelty? Anyway, I tell her I would like my visa and gave her my forms. She looks at them and says these are not correct you need to have a purpose to china. I didn’t quite understand y she was asking me that but I replied these are what my instructor told me to bring and these are all that I have. She asked me “what is your purpose?”
I wondered what is she talking about? But she said your purpose is what you are going to do. And I said I will be studying in china for two weeks doing tours. But I guess she didn’t
hear me because she kept asking me the same thing “what is your purpose?” I then said I am here to turn in these forms for my class I need to get my visa. She then said that my visa form is wrong and I needed to change what I was doing because I had two things marked. Tourism and study. She said that if I had tourism then I would be OK with the forms but I had study also because its a class as well. And she said if its a study then I would need to have another form from the Chinese school and something else but it didn’t matter to me cause it sounded wrong. But she gave me a form and said come back. I had came two hours from home and you tell me I had the wrong forms? whaaaaa? I got from the building franticly looking for different forms that I may have missed or something. But I came back to ask someone else at the window. As I came in I asked one of the workers at the door if what the lady told me was true? They told me that she gave me a bad form and said she gave me a business form , which I didn’t need and she just was so rough and strong worded. But, I was told by the men at the door who were workers, told me to try the first window with the guy. So, I did. And without a word, the guy took my form, stamped it and asked me to pay the fees. And he did his job. I just hope that her days will be better than that day I came to see her. But, I paid for my visa and now am waiting for my visa to come in and I am all set. This has been the part one of many by The Q
Traveling Beijingpart 2
to
Posted on August 18, 2008
Today I woke up at… actually I didn’t get to sleep. I at 1 am finished packing
my bags and got ready to go. At 2 am we went to pick up my mom’s friend.
He went with us to Chicago When we arrived at Chicago airport I wanted to cry. I am a big baby. hehehehe my mom gave me much
encouragement. I love my mom!! At 7:25 I got on the plane. At 9:40 am I arrived
in Seattle. I ate, used the bathroom and got on my laptop till I had to leave. At 2 p.m. we flew to Beijing. The
airplane was beautiful!! In the plane I met a girl who became my friend.
Her name was Anne She was a graduate student. We chatted a
lot. She also was pretty. He he he, she was going to china to teach
English as a second language. She was half Chinese and half
American. We watched a lot of movies, listened to Chinese music and ate FOOD!! Afterwards it
was Saturday at 4:25 that we arrived in Beijing. I am so happy!!
Wonderful! I saw the airport. I first went through customs then
through declaration station. Afterwards teacher Wang picked me up and we went to the BLC University. When we got to the university we received
our room key and went to our room. At 7p.m. we ate dinner with our teacher, then went to sleep.
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I AM VICTORIOUS !!!” The shifting of the feet keeps the blood flowing, the blood keeps the heart going and the heart going, keeps the body in operation. Every step is a step of victory. Every breath is a breath of victory. Every swallow is a swallow of pain and agony and defeat and a new strive towards victory. The road looks far, rocky,hot and rugged. Every step feels like glass and sharp stones are dig-ging and piercing the feet. On top of that the heat makes it even worse. The mentality of victory, keeps the body striving. This body of mine is on the road to victory. Death follows me with a legion of dead soldiers waiting for my body to drop and collapse as dead, but I wont give up. With the sun beating on my head I cannot give in. The road looks more like water. The heat mixing with the ground and the elements of the earth cause my eyes to believe there is water all along the ground. Knowing its a mirage my mind stays on track and keeps striving for that mark of victory. Its looking deep, hard, rugged an hot, but I can make it. Its something that everyone should chant to themselves when they feel they are here on this road.” I won’t give up, I will not give in! This road will not lie with my body on its roadside. I will reach the mark of victory I was intended, and meant to have. Though death walks behind me with his blade of death and his legion army ready, I will not collapse and give in, I will strive and hold on!!
the
Postedn August 6, 2008
As it rains, it pours out a cold sorrowful feeling that only I can feel. The depth of its sorrow carries with it, is a smooth coat of relaxation. As it hits my skin, it gets absorbed in my pores and seeps into them slowly and painlessly. As it touches my skin, its cold brisk feeling sparks a deep sensation into my brain that shoots out “AMAZING!” each time a raindrop hits the skin. It slowly accumulates, slowly growing in size and later creates a small puddle. The more it grows the more it is unstable. When unstable the rain puddle will slowly fall off the skins surface and onto the ground. As i stand there in the rain, I began to think “the rain, how does it feel? How do you get your temperature? Do you feel pain? Do you cry out, every time you hit an object? What is it that causes you to be rain? Why hit me? Why my skin? Why does your sorrow fall upon me and create sorrow within me? Its not the pale moon that excites me, but the rain that splashes against my skin and seep into my skin like a drug long awaiting its destination.
i like rain only yet, i don’t like its sorrow.
Pain of the rainPosted on October 4, 2009
These are the collection of page spreads and pages of
an ongoing magazine project called “No. Unlimited”. In
this magazine are the explorations of type, arrangement,
photography and other design explorations. The purpose
of this magazine is to find ways of pushing design to any
direction and notice new things.
GTA Spano 2013a typographical and photographic exercise, done to create a automotive booklet for an upcoming automobile.Sources of pictures and text are borrowed.Feb 2013
Crowd SourceThe
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Crowd Sourcea magazine spread exercise to arrange type and color on a page.Fall, 2011
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Web Design
Tianjin North Film GroupSummer, 2012
Econscience is a fictional green company that focuses on the environment and providing environmental awareness for the public.Fall, 2010
Tianjin North Film Group Newsletter1& 2Winter, 2012, Spring 2013A HTML based and mailed newsletter to Tianjin’s movie watchers. Providing them information for upcoming films and events from their studio.
Logo&
Works
Zoralogo design for an upcoming china based film company for those whom want to be recognized in mainstream.Spring 2013
1. In the beginning, the client
provided their name and their
company mission/ ideal. From
that I developed Ideas in the
written form, such as definitions
of the name “zora” both from
a dictionary and a thesaurus.
Knowing the strengths, the
company audiences, the
industry, I then could find other
directions to go.
2. I then began to think and ex
plore type faces that would
best suit the project. First
going into a wide spectrum of
types, then shrinking them down
to the final. Since the company
was of the entertainment field,
I thought of using serif types,
something more modern. I then
came up with, ITC Avant Garde
Gothic Std.
I then developed the tag line
from the information given from
the company and of the
meaning of the title of the
company. Th
inking of using the
tag line as a metaphor, seemed
original. Next, came the icon
development. Here, the items
used in Film were explored.
things from clap boards, to lens
caps, film filters, film strip
s etc.
The main thing that was kept in
mind was to “ignore cliché”.
5. After being told no for many
ideas I had to go back
to the drawing plain. More
sketches, perspectives, angles,
ways of thinking of the name
were investigated this tim
e. the
name “Zora” meant morning,
or daybreak. I then began
to find and explore all ways
one could to display the views
of a sunrise.
4. From there, a new design was
created to see if the design was
the issue. After a few reviews, it
too was just not the right
direction the client was looking
for. 6. Here, I wanted to
explore the ways of a logo that
utilized a curvilinear aesthetic.3. From the development came the
digital selection and refinement.
I began working on a design I
found interesting to hold the
true meaning of the company
and also held the tag line very
nicely. The tag line read
“Through zora, you can surpass
difficulty, hardships and achieve
success.”
In this design, the lens, is
perfection/difficulty censorship.
Zora, is th
e ship/gateway/
guiding light. I p
rovided the
typeface used, the developed
icon and the tagline. Also
provided is th
e original design
of the logo and the
arrangement of type. Also
listed are the variations. After
many variations and meetings,
the client felt something was
missing, or doesn’t look quite to
their expectation.
Lens: perfection/difficulty/censorship
Zora:the ship/gateway/guiding light
“Through zora, you can surpass difficulty,
hardships and achieve success.”ZOR A
Typeface:
ITC Avant Garde
Gothic Std
Design:
Lens filter ring
with shadow
Original Design:
B&W / Gradient
Other Examples:
Quinton Quaye
Email: [email protected]
tel: 18311473274
we are the spirit of entertainment
we are the spirit of entertainment
we are the spirit of entertainment
represents the
lens and a play
button behind it
to show the aspect
of Filming, then
watching a film.
the play button has
a drop shadow to
show weight of the
disappearing icon.
9. Next, we start finalizing the
whole design and fine tuned
certain colors and boarders for
the perfect fit.
10. Final product.
8. After defining the final elements
for the logo, we then worked
on the colors, finding which
was best suited. We first ca
me
to a conclusion to use some
light gradients for the colors
to have a radiant feel from
the sunrise, but after careful
consideration, we then chose
to use flat colors without
gradient. With that, try
to keep
the same effect of light change
from bright to dark.
7. Then explored the complex
ways of a sunset and the way
it could break the boundaries
of a bounding design. From
here, we were able to develop
the new design. 10. Final
product.
6. Here, I wanted to explore the
ways of a logo that utilized a
curvilinear aesthetic.
ZORAProcess work
5. After being told no for many
ideas I had to go back
to the drawing plain. More
sketches, perspectives, angles,
ways of thinking of the name
were investigated this tim
e. the
name “Zora” meant morning,
or daybreak. I then began
to find and explore all ways
one could to display the views
of a sunrise.
Popcornersis a company distributor who needed a design for the sides of their trucks so their costomers could see both the product and where they could find more info.Summer, 2012
CryptHostA company built on web security needed a redesign for their logo. Created are two logos resembling the two styles of protection. The first being a traditional style using a shield, the second being a force field keeping foreign objects away.Spring, 2010
Allan 600 & El BiIs a rocking, rapping, heart felt spanish music duo from Dominican Republic. This is their first music label as-well as logo CD artwork and emblem. Summer, 2009
Quinton Quaye & Heidi SchmidtWinter Gala Dance ConcertAn intern project involving Western Michigan University Department of Dance in their annual performed winter concert of dance. Intern I, Fall 2011 poster: 11x17inprogram: 17x11in
Winter Gala Dance Concert
Justified Senior BFA ExhibitionDesigned and put together by 19 other classmates to promote our strengths as a team and to show our abilities in the organization of materials for show to the public.
Justified Senior BFA ExhibitionProcess work
Justified Senior BFA ExhibitionPoster and invitation card for the show.
Justified Senior BFA Exhibition
