VCD SENIOR SHOW

VCD SENIOR SHOW

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This book is dedicated to all our professors, family, and friends who have helped us along the way.

We couldn’t have done it without you!

2015

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DIANA MARIE BAYLESS

Diana is an ambitious and vibrant designer, molding a life that she loves by combining her passion for all things art with her attention to detail. When she’s not creating for work, school, or her internship, Diana spends her time drinking large amounts of green tea and reading good books. You can usually find her working on a new to-do list, near a body of water, or listening to just about anything created by The Gaslight Anthem. She loves surrounding herself with new people, places, and experiences.

WRAP MAGAZINE

Typographic Patterning and Editorial Spread

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EMILY ROESLER BOLLMAN

Emily enjoys branding, web design, and drawing. She likes to spend her free time admiring design work on the web, drinking good beer, listening to live music, and being in the Adirondacks.

Emily is pursuing a career in design and marketing for tech companies. After graduation she is moving to Charlotte, North Carolina where she will pretend to be an adult.

WRAP MAGAZINE

Typographic Patterning and Editorial Spread

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KATHERINE JANE BUCKNER Katherine enjoys designing both for print and the web but has a particular interest in today’s advancing technologies. She believes that when it comes to digital design there’s always room for innovation and the possibilities are endless. Her personal aesthetic is inspired by the community in which she was raised and its surrounding excitement of new artisan developments. When not designing, Katherine spends her time dancing, blogging, and eating cheese.

APEX CIE

Branding and Website Design

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TIMOTHY PATRICK COMSTOCK

Tim has loved art and technology for as long as he can remember, and graphic design was the perfect fit. When he’s not at Virginia Tech, Tim spends his time in the Washington D.C. area. He loves all aspects of design, but primarily works with print design, branding, hand-lettering, illustration, and packaging. Tim also has experience with photography, web design, video editing and shooting, and motion graphics.

TYPOGRAPHIC CITYSCAPE

Experimental Type and Illustration on an Isometric Grid

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CASEY MARIE DAVIS

Casey has spent the majority of this past year working for Modea, a digital consultancy and product studio in Blacksburg, VA. During that time, she fell in love with agency culture and life. Casey hopes to find a agency that is as quirky as she is and shares a passion for good design. Casey has always believed in “do what you love, love what you do.� She is pursuing a career in web design, unless Robert Downey Jr. asks her to marry him.

AVEDA

Website Redesign

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EMYLEE ROSE ESTEBAN

Emylee has lived in Northern Virginia for most of her life, but now has plans to move out West. She designs across various mediums including print, interaction, and motion. Besides designing, Emylee enjoys watching ridiculous amounts of Netflix and any scary movie she can get a hold of.

DIN TYPE SPECIMEN

Hand-Coded App and Website

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SARA CATHERINE GOFORTH Sara’s goal is to make work that is memorable, enjoyable, and sparks conversation. She enjoys being busy and working hard, but has also been known to watch an entire season of The Office in one sitting.

Sara was once asked to take a picture with a little girl who thought she was Merida from Disney’s Brave, and it was probably one of the proudest moments of her life. She frequently laughs at her jokes and is also considered quite the cat enthusiast.

WRAP MAGAZINE

Typographic Patterning and Editorial Spread

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REBECCA LEIGH GROGAN

Becca creates all kinds of work. If she can mold it, shape it, mark it, paint it, or fold it, Becca has probably experimented with the material. Art and design is not limited to paper and computers; it would be quite boring to her if such were the case. Becca creates work the same way she would grow a flower from a seed or build a table from planks of wood. Research. Imagination. Planning.

Action. Design and a creative mind exist equally within all of these activities; it is simply the medium that has been altered.

EARTH DAY POSTER

Hand-Lettering and Watercolor

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ANDREW NORMAN HILL As a creative, Andrew is equally passionate about designing beautiful things as he is inspired by them. Andrew grew up in the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley and his early experiences with the beauty found there continue to serve as a huge inspiration for him. He loves pattern and color and anything with an intriguing texture or tactile experience. Andrew spent his first two years at Virginia Tech studying Architecture—the lessons he learned about how we experience the world around us have greatly influenced and encouraged his affinity for material experimentations throughout his work. In his spare time, you can find Andrew out for a drive exploring the Blacksburg countryside, turning an afternoon into an adventure. He also enjoys a strong cup of coffee, singing with friends and finding a well-made pair of jeans.

SEL DE LA TERRE

Restaurant Branding and Packaging

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MARIAH BARDEN JONES

Mariah lives for art and design and finds inspiration everywhereexpired film, holographic foil, pressed flowers, her friends’ doodles, unruly bed-head, whatever. Her aesthetic is as eclectic and ever-evolving as the constantly accumulating knick knacks on her dresser. When not creating, Mariah is probably out exploring, over-caffeinating, or day-dreaming.

MODERN BASEBALL x PETAL

Vinyl Packaging

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DANIEL SHEA KAGAN

Daniel Kagan is a Florida-born, Virginia-raised graphic designer.

To Daniel, design is about creating beautiful, simple solutions to complex challenges. With a background in the fine arts, he often incorporates illustration and hand lettering into his designs. He’s especially passionate about branding, packaging, and print design.

Daniel is also a sucker for salt water, Wes Anderson movies, and burrito bowls.

PLUMA TEQUILA

Branding and Packaging

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TRAVIS MICHAEL KANE

In his work, Travis strives for a unity between creative concepts and intuitive solutions. Travis has a passion for branding and printed materials as well as front-end web design. Aside from design, Travis is an avid Virginia Tech Hokies sports fan, basketball player, reader, and self-proclaimed comedian.

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SAMANTHA TAYLOR KECK Designer. Adventurer. Music Lover. Coffee Addict. Athlete. Tech Nerd.

Samantha’s passion for design is unlimited, she love all types of design from print to web. Her most recent passion is the growing field of user experience and web design. She enjoys the problem solving aspect to it and is always looking for new and creative ways to enhance web design today.

SOVA

Branding and Website Redesign

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SHANNON ANDREA MACARTHUR

Shannon has lived most of her life outside Boston in Salem, Massachusetts and after graduation plans to move back up north to continue her design career. Over the past years Shannon has developed an enthusiasm for illustrating and print design.

She looks to her surroundings for inspiration and allows her experiences to influence her design. When Shannon isn’t designing you can find her enjoying a warm cup of tea, watching Netflix, baking, or cuddling with the nearest puppy.

A FOOLS PARADISE

Hand-Lettering and Illustration

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ALEX ESTEBAN MARISCAL

Alex grew up in Southern California. He loves fashion. He produces trap music when he is not designing. He is into fitness.

He loves clothes, but not to the point where it’s weird. He enjoys illustration, hand-done type, animation and motion graphics, packaging, web and print design. He would like to spend his career branding, illustrating, and making music in a city where he could live comfortably with his hairless cat. His dream is to become a trap producer.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Book Cover Redesign

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JESSIE LYNNE MARSH

Jessie strives to live a life surrounded by the clean and simple design that drives her creatively. Her design process is a happy hybrid between current technologies and diy methods that allow her to work with her hands, which she considers a requirement for all of her creative endeavors. Her love of stationery, paper craft, and traditional printing methods is reflected in her body of work. When she’s not tinkering with her handmade letterpress machine, you can probably find her reading a book, daydreaming about cross country road trips, and getting way to excited about snail mail. Her future plans are to own and operate her own letterpress studio, unless that letter from Hogwarts finally comes in the mail...

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Invitation Design and Hand-Done Type

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BRIANA MARIE MARSHALL

Briana approaches design the same way she approaches each day: with intention and direction. She believes every mark and move should have a purpose. She also embraces every possible opportunity to learn, whether it’s at her desk or a conversation with a stranger.

Briana enjoys cold weather with a hot cup of Earl Grey tea, playing with animals at the local shelter, and cooking a mean veggie chili.

MDDAY CAMPAIGN

Advertising and Promotional Material Design

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EVAN ANDREW MERKEL

Born in California but always on the move, graduating senior Evan will attend graduate school at Virginia Tech working toward an MFA in Creative Technologies, focusing in the pioneering field of generative design. Evan has worked hard over the past four years to develop a complex, experimental visual language that has become a theme in his recent work. Along with graphic design, Evan loves to row competitively for the Virginia Tech crew team, hike the Blue Ridge mountains, and relax on the sand at Virginia Beach. He looks forward to the next few years studying generative design and turning a profession into a passion.

GENERATIONS

Experimental Generative Poster

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TARA JOY RICCIO

Inspired by an intrinsic love of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Tara is always looking to her surrounding local landscape for inspiration.

She loves designing for both print and digital platforms and learning to work in new mediums. When she is not designing, you can find Tara cooking, taking pictures, hiking, or working on her collaborative blog, The Mountain Creative.

URBIN COMPOSTING KIT

Branding and Packaging

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SARAH JEAN SUNDBERG As someone who always try to maintain a positive outlook in life, Sarah’s designs reflect a light, colorful and cute aesthetic. When she’s not designing you can find her on top a mountain, swimming in the ocean or snuggled up with her dogs reading a good book. If there’s a road trip or new adventure in store, Sarah will be sitting shotgun.

WANDERLUST

Travel Kit Branding and Packaging

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EMILY KATE WALDEN

Emily is a print designer born and raised in the Tar Heel State.

She enjoys variety in life and loves that design gives her the opportunity to do just that. Emily is a problem solver and believes more than anything that beauty in design does not come without function. She stays inspired by living in the moment and immersing herself in whatever environment she may find herself in.

ALZHEIMER’S AWARENESS

Experimental Typography and Poster Design

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CHLOE ELIZABETH YOUNG Chloe is enthusiastic about all aspects of design, photography, and studio art. She has worked as a designer for several magazines, nonprofits, and Virginia Tech organizations while studying design over the past four years. She plans to find a unique and exciting agency to work for after graduation, and has a special interest in advertising, packaging, and print design. When she’s not in the studio, Chloe is usually enjoying some form of outdoor sport, hula-hooping, doing yoga, painting, or roaming around a craft store.

UINTAHS

Band Merchandise

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VCD CLASS OF 2015 Diana Bayless

Travis Kane

Emily Bollman

Sammi Keck

Katherine Buckner

Shannon MacArthur

Tim Comstock

Alex Mariscal

Casey Davis

Jessie Marsh

Emylee Esteban

Briana Marshall

Sara Goforth

Evan Merkel

Becca Grogan

Tara Riccio

Andrew Hill

Sarah Sundberg

Mariah Jones

Emily Walden

Daniel Kagan

Chloe Young