PURPOSE Seeking an engaging work within the graphic design industry, to the mutual benefit of myself and my employer.
SKILLS VISION The entire world around us is designed. Everything we see has been molded by somebody to appear just the way it is. It is so prevalent that most people take it for granted, yet it constantly influences our lives. Even the most visually simplistic looking things around us are really the result of a careful and seamless balancing of many complex ideas. For me, working as a graphic designer offers a unique opportunity to effect the world around me in a positive and interesting way. I aim to bring beauty, creativity, and clarity to the world through my design work.
Branding Icons Infographics Logos Management Multitasking Photography Print Layout Social Media Teamwork Typography Visual Identity Web Design
THE SILENCE LETTERFORM
GENERATING A FITTING ADDITION Beginning with an extensive visual study of the existing font, Bodoni, I created a unique letterform to fit within this font set. The form had to encapsulate and blend into the preexisting ascetics, as well as have a unique sound, use, and name associated with it. I chose this letterform, because it showcases the beauty of the smooth yet large shifts in line weights of Bodoni letterforms. The sound (of silence) and name actually came to me before I began my sketches. The form was cut from wood using a laser plotter and painted black. Lastly, I created a poster to communicate and showcase the unveiling of my new letterform.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 18in by 24in Media: Printed on Kodak Enhanced Matt Paper @ WSU Digital Photography Lab For: AGD-2250 Typography, Fall 2014, WSU (Professor Dan McCafferty) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC
A RECORD COLLECTION DOUBLE BOOK
EXAMINING TYPOGRAPHICAL IMPACT Part of an advanced study into the function of typographic form, space, and balance. The intent was to show how typographic choices could alter the tone of a written work. For this experiment I took an identical piece of copy that I wrote, and visually arranged into two completely different accordion books. The result is a completely different take on the identical text for most readers. Each book recollects the feeling of going to a room to listen to music; one expressing energy of the music itself, and the other highlighting the comforting, calming nature of the space within the room to the reader.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 10in by 49in (each) Media: Printed on Heavy Bond Paper @ WSU Student Center Graphics For: AGD-6260 Advanced Typography, Winter 2016, WSU (Professor Dan McCafferty) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator & InDesign CC
A LOOK @ TYPE PROCESS BOOK & BLOG
SHOWCASING TYPOGRAPHY BASICS When I first began seriously studying typography in depth, I was lucky enough to have a teacher that required us to keep a detailed blog of our explorations, projects, and class discussions. By then end of the term I had amassed a huge amount of information from key word definitions, to a list of type crimes, and all of the process work along the way in great detail. From this plentiful source I designed a more condensed printed book, which highlights in both design and content, the knowledge I had accrued during my introduction to typography studies. To this day the blog and book serve to help new WSU typography students.
ADDITIONAL INFO Book Size: A5 (approximately 5.268in by 8.2677in) Media: Printed on Regular Matt Paper @ WSU Graphic Design Lab For: AGD-2250 Typography, Fall 2014, WSU (Professor Dan McCafferty) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE GAME
CREATING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT This game is essentially a web based version of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure style books. The challenge was to build a navigable web space using a combination of CSS, and HTML. I was a fan of the C.Y.O.A. books growing up, but always thought that a lot of the death/ loss sequences lacked connectivity to the story, and so I created this space with that theme in mind. There are multiple rooms to explore, and over a dozen possible endings. The visual style I set up is an emulation of early 80s computer adventure/exploration games (from the same era as the books) with manipulated images I collected online.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 1000p by 720p Media: Digital Online Display (optimized for standard monitor size, web viewing) For: AGD-3260 Introduction to Interactivity, Fall 2014, WSU (Professor Chris Mendoza) Utilizing: Adobe Dreamweaver, Illustrator & Photoshop CC
ALTERNATE SPACE IMAGE COMPOSITES
MANIPULATING IMAGE & IMPLICATION This collection of images comes from a project that challenged me to alter the images of an existing image library to express a new idea. I chose to work with NASA’s online image gallery. The final four images together, explore what modern day NASA images could look like if they had retained their budget from the Apollo Moon Mission era. I also redesigned their current website to match. A lot of the ideas came from reading classic science-fiction from the early Space Race decades (especially Isaac Asimov). Great detail was given to accurate portrayals, both visually and scientifically wherever possible.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 6000p by 4800p (digital) & 20in by 16in (print) Media: Digital Display & Printed on Kodak Premium Luster Paper @ WSU Digital Photography Lab For: APH 3420 Digital Imaging 2, Winter 2016, WSU (Professor Kate Levy) Utilizing: Adobe InDesign & Photoshop CC
EASTERN MARKET AFTER DARK POSTER
VISUAL HIERARCHY & INTEGRATION This design was for the 2015 Eastern Market After Dark poster competition, held in conjunction with the Detroit Design Festival. The restrictions set were; to create a poster design suitable for a bi-color screen print on either black or white paper using a preset color palette consisting of a specific selection of blue or pink, to incorporate the existing 2015 Detroit Design Logo, and list the relevant information. I chose to highlight the location of the event visually, and let the text and existing logo speak for the time and association. I also picked the blue that matched the existing logo along with black, on white paper.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 24in by 36in Media: Printed on Kodak Enhanced Matt Paper @ WSU Digital Photography Lab For: Eastern Market After Dark Poster Competition 2015 (part of The Detroit Design Festival) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC
FLOOR 1 LIBERAL ARTS
FLOOR 2 FASHION DESIGN
FLOOR 3 GRAPHIC DESIGN
OLD MAIN BRAND IDENTITY
BUILDING RECOGNITION & CONTINUITY Re-branding requires a thorough understanding of the existing aesthetics and connotations of the target. Fellow designer, Jaime Rowland, and I choose to build a new and more unified identity for one of our favorite buildings in Detroit, the Old Main building (which has stood countless changes to both style and purpose). Today it is an integral and highly recognizable part of the Wayne State University main campus. The results of extensive on site studies into defining characteristics of the location, and of the established color scheme helped shape our logo and brand style. These are but a sampling of the possible uses of said construct.
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: Various & Adjustable Media: Digital Display & Printed on Regular Matt Paper @ Wayne State University Graphic Design Lab For: AGD-5250 Graphic Design 3, Fall 2015, Wayne State University (Professor Danielle Aubert) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC
HOME MAP & ICON SET
VISUALLY DEPICTING INFORMATION The map and corresponding icons presented here are the result of explorations into map making itself, and functional visual representations of objects. It features the various rooms and important items within my own home. I began with a photo of my house, converted it to vector form, which I then divided into rooms on a flat layout. Each icon was uniquely crafted to portray the item it represented in the style of the overall map itself. There is no map key, only design and contextual clues. The only text is the title, room names, and the location indicator (based on where it hangs in my actual home).
ADDITIONAL INFO Size: 17in by 11in Media: Printed on Kodak Enhanced Matt Paper @ WSU Digital Photography Lab For: AGD-4250 Graphic Design 2, Spring 2015, WSU (Professor Stephen Schudlich) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC
DETOURS MAP SET & BLOG
INTRIGUING & INFORMATIVE DELIVERY This map set and accompanying blog is a team effort between myself and designer Jaime Rowland originally created for the exhibition, PrettyDirty, at the renowned Scarab Club (which showcased Graphic Design relating to the urban atmospheres of Detroit and New York City). Together we designed a detailed set of unified maps that guide participants down three beautiful and unique routes around Detroit. The map set is designed to be simultaneously; eye-catching, highly informative, and stimulating. The corresponding blog (which aids and enhances user experience and connectivity) utilizes the same style and organization.
ADDITIONAL INFO Map Size: 20in by 16in (large) & 13.75in by 11in (small) Media: Printed on Heavy Bond (large) & Semi-gloss (small) @ WSU Student Center Graphics For: AGD 5997 Graphic Design 4, Winter 2016, WSU (Professor Stephen Schudlich) Utilizing: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop CC