My Work

Attraction Documentary

This was my final thesis project for graphic design. I wanted to focus on the attraction we feel when we first fall for someone. I interviewed 11 family members and friends with their significant others. They ranged in age, relationship status and ideas about finding someone. I asked them all the same set of questions, filmed their responses and built a short documentary around it. I then displayed quotes from their answers and had them each write it in their own handwriting. I hung pictures of each person as well a with their significant others. I then chose objects to represent each person that had to do with their attraction to the other person. I also took all their answers and made a keepsake book for each person to remember the project.

Thesis Progress

Fictional event I created based on a five year plan we wrote in graphic design studio. I wanted to be an owner of a bakery as well as create a program that helps children with the death of loved ones. I was influenced by a real company called Healing Hearts that helped many of the families in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as my cousin who lost his mother, my aunt. The idea was that I would make cupcakes in the bakery that looked like flowers and for each one sold, money would be donated to the healing hearts program. There they would use the money to buy flowers and invite the families to a day of planing new life and getting to share their stories with other people.

Taco Tuesday

Advanced Printmaking project. I wanted to focus on the idea of identity. Each print is unique in the set of 30. Used 9 organic shapes and combined them together in different sets of three for each print. Those were silkscreened, and then I hand panted while outlines in a new shape to represent the unique forms each person takes in the world, as well as the paths they travel to make them who they are.

Book Cover

Freelance project done for a freind's final thesis. Helped to design the cover of her book for a project about the human impact on our planet.

Subculture

Graphic Design project that asked us to define a subculture and create something that group would use. I chose Ravers and the Electronic Dance Music group to focus on. I was influenced by research done on Tibetan prayer flags as well as the PLUR (Peace, Love, Unity and Respect) moto for ravers. I created a room that would be at each festival where there will be fabric pieces that each person can tie to the lights and write a message on it. The messages would then be blown around and released into the wind as a way of letting their feelings go.

Six Word Story

Typography project that had us come up with six words to describe ourselves. Because I am so tall, I went with "I'm Easily Found In A Crowd". I then took bubble wrap and injected colored water into each bubble to form letters with a small needle. At the end I filmed myself popping all the bubbles in frustration to show how it feels to be asked questions about my height each day.

Child Advocacy Center Re-Design

I was asked by the Child Advocacy Center in North Carolina to help redesign their logo and find a new brand identity. This is just one example of the comps I created.

Flowers For Family

Fictional event I created based on a five year plan we wrote in graphic design studio. I wanted to be an owner of a bakery as well as create a program that helps children with the death of loved ones. I was influenced by a real company called Healing Hearts that helped many of the families in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as my cousin who lost his mother, my aunt. The idea was that I would make cupcakes in the bakery that looked like flowers and for each one sold, money would be donated to the healing hearts program. There they would use the money to buy flowers and invite the families to a day of planing new life and getting to share their stories with other people.

Identity

Advanced Printmaking project. I wanted to focus on the idea of identity. Each print is unique in the set of 30. Used 9 organic shapes and combined them together in different sets of three for each print. Those were silkscreened, and then I hand panted while outlines in a new shape to represent the unique forms each person takes in the world, as well as the paths they travel to make them who they are.

Academic Festival Poster

The winning poster for the 2014 Academic Festival at Norwalk Community College. The theme was men and women who each have their own 'super powers' to contribute to society. The guest Speaker was one of the creators at Marvel Comics. The poster was displayed all around the school as well as a flyer and electronic-banner.

Anti-Valentines

Advanced Printmaking project. Marbled the paper using food coloring and shaving cream(sounds weird, actually really cool). Then silkscreened the hearts and hand painted the letters. The idea came from the thought that people would want to send valentines out but for the opposite reason. So these prints were folded up, stuffed with glitter and confetti and each had a unique message to tell that not so special someone.

NECA Brochure

Freelance project done with IBM and Norwalk Community College. They partnered together to create the Norwalk Early College Academy to help students in high school graduate with enough college credits to have an Associates Degree. The brochure was to promote the program, as well as inform parents of already enrolled students.

Hydrangea Silkscreen

Silkscreen project using a reductive method. Made using screen filler. Set of 10. Arches 88.

Super Hero Illustrations

Freelance project. I have had a couple people ask me to turn their children into their favorite super heroes. So I take a photograph of the child, draw them in Illustrator, as well as the hero and the type, and make them their own comic book cover.

F**k Content

Typography project using an essay that talks about Form vs. Content. This essay stated that the form a piece takes is more important than the content being legible. So I took the essay and warped the text so it no longer looked like type, but more like a visually stimulating book.

Valentines Movie Week

Type behind an week long event poster. The event took place during the week of Valentines Day 2015 and screened famous love movies of each decade from 1960-2000's. Type is hand drawn, carved and then lined with glitter.

Celebrity Illustration

Illustration class project using Adobe Illustrator. Chose to illustrate Madonna. Required to draw by hand to get used to the tools in the program.

Photo Realism Drawing

Recreating Lee Jeffries' photographs of homeless men and women in black and white. Drawn in pencil.

What is Beauty?

Project for my film photography class. Took the top 5 features men and women find unattractive about themselves and made them each the main focus of the photos. They features were middle parts, thin lips, glasses, freckles and curly hair.

Iconic Architecture Sculpture

Made from cardboard, it's a recreation of a city scape. Includes residential areas, offices, a park, and streets. Inspired by central park in NYC.

Flowers for Family note card

Note cards that explain an event at my bakery. I made cupcakes that have floral design decorations, and each one tat is bought, the money goes towards my Healing Hearts foundation which helps kids and young adults who have lost loved ones.

Wiki Zine

Information found from Wikipedia on a random page and then designed for print. This one was for the Journal of Neurosurgery.

Sweetie Pies Logo

Branding for my bakery. Stickers made for products and packaging such as cupcake boxes and bags.

Catalog of Influences

I have been influenced greatly by web design because that is where I first learned how to design. This book discusses how web design has evolved since the internet has been created.