Nisa Hansen, a first-year student, couldn't be happier at IDEA School of Design. She shows a side of her personality not many people know in this exquisite self-portrait for IDES 133 - Visual Studio.

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by Nisa Hansen (IDEA Grad 2023)

Before becoming a student at IDEA School of design I had no idea what to expect, but I couldn't be happier with the outcome! Things definitely come at your fast in the program and expectations are high but, with the support of fellow classmates and designers things feel a bit more manageable. 

Self portrait photography assignment: Since I was a kid I've always felt a connection between art and fashion from the 40’s and 50’s, even today I collect vintage fashion magazines and comic books and love to go antiquing in my free time. I feel like this is definitely a side of my personality not many people know and I wanted to take this opportunity to really go all out! 

For this piece I was tasked with creating a logo for a fictional company. I chose to do a company that specialized in dancing shoes for burlesque dancers and the colours were inspired by vintage shoe catalogues. 

This was one of my first larger acrylic paintings and I decided to paint a stack of honey-glazed doughnuts because who doesn't like a good ol’ honey-glazed doughnut?

When doing some research for another assignment I stumbled across a lot of strange 50’s Jell-O dishes one of which consisted of lime Jell-O, whipped cream and pineapple and this character is inspired by all the elements of that dessert.