Portfolio professional and graduate and work
Click an image below to see a sample of my recent design projects.
Resonant Illumination
Medium: Interactive
Date: 2015–2016
Design Objectives: Create an installation that interacts with the viewer and encourages viewers to interact with it.
Visualizing Group Creativity
Medium: Data Visualization of Research Study
Date: 2013–2015
Design Objectives: Visually explore the process of group creativity and idea generation.
Memory of Youghal
Medium: Book (plexiglass, acitate sheets, laser print, screen print, nuts, & bolts)
Date: December 2012
Design Objectives: An exploration into the representation of memory of place and its fleeting and constantly shifting properties.
Calming Colors
Medium: Multimedia (Processing IDE)
Date: 2011–2017
Design Objectives: Color can have a calming effect. Develop a visual composition that could be used in a specific context to calm anxious people or take their mind off immediate concerns.
Vara Kamin’s Impressions of Light
Medium: Website (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Date: January 2013
Design Objectives: A responsive website for iPads, as well as larger and smaller screens. Audience of doctors, architects, and hospital executives.
Stop Grandma From Voting!
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: September 2012
Design Objectives: Type-based political poster that appeals to the viewers love of their own grandmother to pique interest and encourage them to approach and learn more.
Interactive Canvas
Medium: Interactive Multimedia (Processing IDE)
Date: December 2011
Design Objectives: Working prototype; develop a program for human–computer & human–human interaction to “paint” on screen.
A Safer Stove
Medium: Product proposal
Date: March 2012
Design Objectives: A cognitive ergonomics product proposal, develop of a product that makes effective use of color used as signal to facilitate the use of the object.
Financial Education Posters
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: October 2010
Design Objectives: Develop an advertisement campaign to encourage financial education and fiscal responsibility among the poor and lower-middle class.
The Costs of Payday Lending
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: May 2011
Design Objectives: Highlight an issue: Data visualizations (graphs and clorpleth maps) are used to illustrate the true costs of the payday loan industry on the economy of the Twin Cities.
