Portfolio recent graduate and professional 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.
Gopher Way Analysis
Medium: Design Task Analysis
Date: October 2011
Design Objectives: Human factors task analysis of the University of Minnesota’s Gopher Way using a variety of research methods and usability tests.
MyTextFitness.com
Medium: Website (HTML, CSS, ASP.net, Adobe Flash)
Date: 2010
Design Objectives: Front-end website for potential customers to find out more and to sign up for service. Back-end for personal trainers to send workouts to clients and for clients to see their fitness progress.
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UMN Bookstore Analysis
Medium: Design Task Analysis & Proposal
Date: December 2011
Design Objectives: Human factors and usability task analysis and improvement proposal for the University of Minnesota Bookstore.
TopekaHomefinder.com
Medium: Website & Ad campaign
Date: 2005
Design Objectives: Design of new logo and brand identity to reinvigorate a slowly declining newspaper owned area home sales vertical.
FleetwoodTI.com
Medium: Website
Date: 2010
Design Objectives: To provide a quick and easy way for clients to schedule medical transportation with the company and to communicate the company’s professionalism.
Universal Products’ Product Catalog
Medium: Offset lithographic printing
Date: 2004
Design Objectives: Promote company products to a network of distributors and automotive customization shops. Show each vinyl graphic with available striping configurations and colors.
Voter ID Poster
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 2012
Design Objectives: Create a type-based poster that explains a recent constitutional ammendment.
Topeka Civic Theatre: Misery
Medium: Online ad campaign
Date: 2007
Design Objectives: Local online ad campaign to increase interest in upcoming theatrical performance.
Coldwell Banker, Griffith & Blair
Medium: Website (HTML, CSS, PHP)
Date: 2004
Design Objectives: Website overhaul with many new features including a incentive for home buyers and sellers to register with the site. Design a bright, easy to understand and navigate, friendly design.
September letterpress
Medium: Letterpress printing
Date: October 2012
Design Objectives: Integrate contrasting properties using Hamilton Wood type borrowed from the Hamilton Type Museum along with available metal type.
MobileMotive.com
Medium: Website (HTML, CSS, Adobe Flash)
Date: 2009
Design Objectives: The website’s primary goal is to provide supporting information about the company’s different types of insurance and warranties for sales staff to refer potential clients to.
TFX Roll Striping Magazine Ad
Medium: Offset lithographic printing
Date: 2003
Design Objectives: Magazine ad promoting Universal Products’ TFX line of vinyl striping and equipment.