work

  • Alabama Blitz
    2010

    The Alabama Blitz was a collaborative social design initiative between twelve student designers in Greensboro, Alabama and Project M. Over the course of a week issues such as experience design for community engagement and collaborative design experimentation (loosely defined as Thinking Wrong and midnight Footdown tournaments) were examined by all participants. Several design objects, including a promotional newsprint piece , event poster, t-shirts, were...

  • The Exchange Show 2010
    2010

    A brand for an art show featuring the works of students who had recently completed student exchange programs. A concept for branding was created in collaboration with Nicole Pizarro and Yuriy Rzhemovskiy. Photos were collected from participants from their exchanges, and placed into 3/4 squares, representing the unfinished feeling of an exchange student. Each image is captioned with the location of each photograph, and each shape is oriented on a virtual compass to point from Vancouver to...

  • City Blossoms Garden Parade
    2010

    This project was created with City Blossoms, a non-profit foundation dedicated to working with schools, neighborhood groups, community centers and other organizations to create spaces for children to use their creativity and combined strength and skills to learn how to grow and maintain fantastic yet functioning gardens. The assignment at hand was to work with City Blossoms to determine what design piece would best serve them. After interviewing...

  • Exchange by the Numbers
    2010

    This infographic poster was created using data collected about the designer for one week. It largely focuses on the changes occurring in her life during this week due to moving to a new city. The visual style pokes fun at the idea of making an information graphic about subjective data, but presenting it as scientific fact. It has been featured on Datavis.

     

  • Experiments in Hand-Drawn Typography
    2010

    I love playing and experimenting with type! Here are a couple examples of some of the hand-drawn typography exercises I've been doing recently. 

    Be sure to check out this silent-movie inspired experimental type project I created last year, which include motion graphics and scale-model architectural type...

  • Bo Diddly Music Poster
    2010

    This typographic poster was inspired by a song by musical innovator Bo Diddly. The written content is the lyrics to the song, and the poster is designed to reflect the style of 1960s concert posters.

     

  • We Are All Alone
    2010

    "We Are All Alone" is a first semester grad project that is designed to be a package of materials that promotes the idea that solitude is okay, even in a modern world.  It includes a publication of selected written works, with illustrations to go with each narrative, as well as several tools for using the ideas found in the book in daily life, and to spread them to others.