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Nicole Schwager

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2009 / CU Art History Grad Program Informational Flier

Written Work | Design Work | Catalogue Design & Layout

This was a small note card for the annual Coors Western Stock Show in Denver. The work pictured was a new painting by renowned artist Don Stinson.Since Don is well known to the Stock Show art enthusiast crowd, I minimized his name and embedded it be…

I put this flier together in 2009 in grad school at the request of the head of the CU Boulder Art History department since I had a bit of design experience. I sourced all of the images in CU's Visual Resource Center database that had just launched, …

This is the cover from the first exhibition catalogue we produced at David B. Smith Gallery. Among other included works, the artist, Hong Seon Jang, completed a large scale site-specific installation at the gallery for the exhibition with fishing li…

This was an ad I designed for Hi Fructose magazine. The work is by Laura Ball, and it has this wonderful verticality and diagonal tension. There is also a delightful walrus hiding in the neck of the zebra, so this positioning spotlighted this engagi…

This was the Denver Art Dealer's Association ad page for David B. Smith Gallery that I put together. It features works by Michael Theodore, Kris Lewis, Laura Ball, Paul Jacobsen, Christina Empedocles, Hong Seon Jang, and Don Stinson.I wanted to high…

This is an invitation I made for a ski weekend for a group of my friends. I wanted to convey absolute ebullience and merriment, as well as the beauty of Colorado and the personalities of the "Birthday Girls" (including the dog!).

This is an ad I designed for Art Ltd. magazine for an exhibition by Molly Dilworth, Sans Souci, at David B. Smith Gallery. It wasn't a full page ad, so the primary aim was to capture attention and interest, as well as draw attention to Mol…

This is the cover of Tobias Fike's catalogue for his exhibition, Then and now and then at David B. Smith Gallery. This image is part of a set of four images, so it is a detail image of a larger work, but it encapsulates much of the heart and so…

This is an ad I made for the auction booklet for the MCA Denver's major annual fundraiser, the Luminocity Gala.Don Stinson, an incredibly accomplished artist based in Colorado, serves a wide audience, but his work is typically more associated with "…

This is the layout I put together for Paul Jacobsen's artist statement in his catalogue for his solo show Orgone at David B. Smith Gallery.Much of Paul's work has a vivid, nearly photoreal quality, which he achieves by using a classical grid te…

This is an invitation I put together for a slightly last-minute weekend in Sonoma. The photo was taken at dawn with an automated critter cam, and I wanted the text to disappear into the blinding morning light. Plus, some of the invitees hadn't …

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