Audience Presentation
I built a slide deck on the web for a presentation on my work and how it relates to the concepts of Audience Studies as part of Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Audience on the Web
I wrote this essay for Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at the Rhode Island School of Design. Except this time it wasn’t reproduced here for posterity, it was only produced here. There’s no question that audience has always been an important consideration in design. Hell, it isn’t design if there isn’t an audience. But the web has […]
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Metaphor on the iPad
An essay I wrote for Dan Cavicchi’s Audience class at RISD about the use of interface metaphors on the iPad, and why it was justified for Apple to strongly suggest developers use them in their Human Interface Guidelines.
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Wonder Bread
Working with three other people, we researched Wonder bread, and created a project from our findings. We didn’t have the most positive reaction to the product, so we chose to draw critiques on the bread using Wonder’s own slogans.
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Babysquatter
Babysquatter.comA weird project name and idea, but was incredibly fun to build. The premise is simple, but there are a bunch of little details that hopefully make it fun to use. There’s no way for me to explain it better than you using it for yourself.
Try it on your iPhone too!
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Icebreakertags
Icebreaktertags.comWhile interning in Studio 612A, Tina had an idea for a small web app that would allow people to make their own icebreakertags, so I designed and built it.
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Acknowledge the Screen
Visit the Campaign's SiteA collaboration with Micah Barrett. Frustrated with our Graphic Design department’s lack of focus on screen design and with the less-than-inspiring prompt we received for the semester’s final assignment, we decided to create a campaign to raise awareness instead.
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Intercourse
A web-view of a poster I designed for closing elevator doors. It is advertising http://in.tercour.se, a RISD student chatroom, built by Jack Jennings. (If it helps, RISD’s unofficial mascot is “Scrotie”, a giant penis… don’t ask.)
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Spec Work or Dialogue?
There is a big difference between spec work or crowd sourcing and voicing ideas about a redesign on Dribbble, and that difference is audience.
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Good for Good’s Sake
A post on Drawar criticizing some designers’ reaction to Gap’s new brand seemed so off-base to me I had to respond.
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WebAdvisor Simplified
After two years of using WebAdvisor at RISD, I finally had enough. Now with Chrome and Safari extensions, I never have to look at its interface again.
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Matchuppps
Play the Live AppMatchuppps was my entry into the 10kApart competition. The prompt was to create a web application in less than 10KB of code. Matchuppps came in at 6,216 bytes and went on to win the “Best Design” award.
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Striped Shadow
An expansion on Sasha Grief’s tutorial on Dribbble to make it work in HTML/CSS.
Only works in Webkit browsers.
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A Color Palate
An unconventional desert cook book à la Pantone fan. The covers are sheets of aluminum with screen-printed text.
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Rodchenko Timeline
A timeline in the form of an accordion book. I was glad to be assigned Rodchenko because I love Constructivist work and was enjoyed experimenting with the style.
My favorite part is the diagonal bellyband and matching book jacket.
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Multi-Single-Line CSS
A style of writing CSS that I have been using lately that combines the benefits of the multi-line and single-line styles.
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Forget Fear
You shouldn’t need to “test an idea out” before you run it on your own blog. Have people forgotten that blogs are about opinions?
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Businessman
A simple experiment with animating more hip-hop lyrics.
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Degrees of Art Direction
Art direction doesn’t need to be an all-or-nothing treatment. Who’s to say there’s nothing between completely art-directed content and the default template?
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Opera Mini Makes Me Cringe
The Opera Mini application was just approved by Apple and honestly, I’m disappointed.
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Dead Presidents
An experiment based off of David Desandro’s post on his blog.
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Dupont Underground Logo
A logo concept for a proposed project in Washington DC that never saw the light of day.
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Gotham to Gothic
To go with this website’s redesign, I designed a completely new identity that is applied to everything—as it should be.
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Literally Realigned
When the iPad was released, one of its features caught my attention: the 1024 x 768 resolution. That meant that my website was definitely too wide, so I readjusted.
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Résumés + Hypertext
Résumés in actual HTML are becoming commonplace on portfolio sites, but they often don’t get used to their full potential.
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Reasons for my Redesign
This site has gone through a lot of redesigns. This latest design is my attempt to get up to date with current standards.
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The Condensed Blog Manifesto
This is where I will discuss my thoughts as they relate to design. It will be an interesting exercise.
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Magnitude as Hierarchy
A book exploring magnitude as ‘importance’ and the role of magnitude in creating hierarchy. Derived from three weeks of research into anything and everything related to magnitude.
The book jacket unfolds into the poster created in the book’s pages.
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An Illustrated Essay
A design for an essay written on the heartless construction of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.
The rip is a graph of the Jewish population in Europe from 1939–1945.
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Audio Breeds Visual
An accordion book containing twelve black-and-white collaged compositions spawned from four Fluxus songs.
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The 500
A book chronicling the process of expressing five concepts: anamoly, balance, contrast, rhythm, and texture. What started as 500 1” x 1” thumbnails was reduced to 50 and later to five 5” x 5” designs.
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Yoga Service Council Logo
A logo designed for the Yoga Service Council in Washington DC. Designed while working as an intern at Project Design Company, a small design studio in Washington DC.
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Graduation Invitation and Program
An invitation and program cover designed for the Washington International School’s 2008 graduation.
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Prom Invitations
A set of invitations designed for the Washington International School’s 2007 Prom.
