Academic Portfolio
Medium: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Services: Typography, Graphic Design, Brand Development
Challenge: Create a poster for a famous artist's art show. Use the artist's work to inspire the poster.
Inspired by the vibrant colors and dynamic design that are the hallmark of Milton Glasser’s work, this design solution incorporates his bold approach in a poster that belongs to both of our aesthetics.
Medium: Adobe After Effects and Illustrator
Services: Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustrations
Challenge: Create a 15-second motion graphics video developing your own thematic and design constraint for the project.
This short-form motion graphics project uses a combination of Adobe Illustrator and After Effects. Designed for family and friends as a personal announcement of a semester abroad in Rome.
Medium: Adobe After Effects, Illustrator and Photography
Services: Motion Graphics, Typography, Digital Illustration
Challenge: Create a short motion graphics video exploring illusory contexts.
Using a combination of motion graphics video and hand-rendered and digital illustrations, this short motion project explores the imaginary, fluid, and fast-changing landscapes of the future. Here I employ a combination of vintage and modern styles that work in tandem to express the pace of change over time.
Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Procreate
Services: Typography, Graphic Design, Branding, Illustration
Client: Fordham University
Challenge: Create a collection of three movie posters using one color for a movie night at Fordham University.
Using Procreate as an illustration tool in combination with Adobe Illustrator, this project explores how the form of a circle can operate as both a narrative and graphic element in a design solution. This project is designed to be viewed as a set and as a discreet design solution.
Medium: Adobe XD, Illustrator,
Services: UX Design, Graphic Design, Speculative Design, App Development
Challenge: Develop a future technology that solves a problem in the future.
EcoScore is a government-sponsored digital tool that connects with future smart city grids that encourages you to be a sustainable city by rewarding you with a lower tax burden. The technology tracks your sustainability behaviors in a variety of categories and shares that data for you to submit with your tax filings.
Medium: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Services: Typography and layout
Challenge: A personal interpretation of a classic type face.
Results: With an emphasis on natural forms and a whimsical feeling to the letter forms, the base font Didot was transformed into a lyric and organic type face.
Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Paper, and Glue
Services: Layout Design, Graphic Design, Collage
Challenge: Create a pop-up booklet that states a problem.
Focusing on myths of body image perfection this project explores the impact of the male gaze on societal notions of beauty and femininity. Beginning with movie stills and text from Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl monologue, this project investigates the unrealistic standards of beauty through a design conceit that pays homage to teenage scrapbooks and locker art.
Medium: Adobe Illustrator, paper, and glue
Services: 3D Design, Illustration, Graphic Design
Challenge: Create a 3D landscape based on 3D shapes.
This hand constructed set of small shapes explores the theme of time travel in an Alice in Wonderland-inspired psychedelic motif. Playing with scale, I enlarged the pieces for a site-specific installation made expressly for a local woodland.