Digital Work

Creations using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Canva

Invisible Cities Project

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How do you represent a city you can not see? In this project, I used graphic design to bring to life a city I selected from the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Without using any imagery with any direct symbolic meaning, I created six initial iterations. I then used elements of these compositions that I was drawn towards and used these to compile my final iteration.

Sound Analysis Project

In these seven studies, I created visual abstract representations of a sound I recorded in black and white using curvilinear, rectilinear, and combined forms.

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Image Icon Project

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For this project, I studied the history of iconography, from ancient representations to the initial work of Susan Kare. From this, I then chose a household item to represent in a series of 7 icons. Through this design process, I focused on maintaining a unity and cohesion not only in symbolics between these icons, but also in the aesthetics and design properties of each. I chose A red solo cup and did some research on the history of the cup, in addition to some explorations into the symbolic value of these classic cups have in peoples lives. My first four studies represent different purposes the solo cup has served in my life, from being a string telephone to communicate with my brother across the room, a cup for painting from 3 years old to this day, making play houses out of cups, and to modern day college games like pong. The next two studies examine the past and the future of this icon. The baby bottle represents where we came from, and the precursor to the cup in a nostalgic sense. I enjoy thinking about this as an evolution, so I feel that looking back at the baby bottle allows this mental journey. The trash can, then, represents the future. For me, this icon can be taken in a positive, or a negative way. The negative outlook, could see this as an abandonment of all of these memories and experiences, and the careless wasting of something that should mean so much. I prefer to view this in a more positive light, suggesting that though you may throw out the physical cup, it will still carry this symbolic value and will still have a lasting impact on your life.

Postcards

I created these postcards in Photoshop using photographs that I had taken to represent different places that have significance and value to me in a more abstract manner