2020

Adobe Illustrator

5 x 7 in

The Valentine's Day Cards were a project created as a way to give back to those individuals who contribute to the easiness of our everyday life without knowing. For instance, I gave one to my Studio Art professor because he has helped me grow as an artist for the past four years, and one to a worker at Peet's Coffee, who every morning greets me with a big smile. Additionally, because these cards were intended for a general audience, as designers, we had to step away from the traditional notion of love, and create a project that stood unique among all the Valentine's Day stereotypes. Accordingly, I chose to focus on sweets and candy, which oftentimes can be addicting and tempting just like love, but that can also teach us the value of moderation.

2019

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

Fictional branding campaign for Releaf, a company whose mission is to encourage young people to recycle and be eco-friendly in NYC.

2019

Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop

8 x 10 in

Mini-magazine inspired by contemporary art, more specifically by South African artist Ryan Hewett’s abstract work. In the mini-magazine, I included two articles I wrote for Agora Gallery.

2019

Adobe Photoshop

Album cover for the single “Mango” by Back to Yours. Back to Yours is a Georgetown-based indie rock band.

2020

11 x 17 in

Adobe Illustrator

Bauhaus inspired poster. Bauhaus was a German art school that started in 1919 and ended in 1933. The movement combined crafts and fine arts to design in a way that combined beauty with function to unify the principles of mass production with individual artistic vision. The poster's message is to "create more art, consume more art."

2020

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop

7 x 5 in

note: not original text

For this project, we had to create educational type classification cards with a theme of our choosing. I picked gemstones because they are oftentimes used spiritually by individuals to release mental stress to gain knowledge. On the front of each card, we had to include the type classification with a brief history, its application, examples of fonts, the alphabet, and the date it was created. On the back of each card, we had to use our theme and incorporate facts about it.

2020

8.5 x 11 in

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop

The Choco Cake project was a typography exercise that ultimately became a recipe spread. The objective of this exercise was to successfully integrate a lot of text on one page with no decorations, just text, and one color. Furthermore, the project required each student to chose an appropriate font and consider hierarchy, size, style, placement, weight, case, and color. After completing the Choco Cake recipe, we had to transform the project into a spread with an image.

2019

Adobe Illustrator

Graphic translation generates drawings of instant recognition and startling visual interest. The turtle is an example of iconic representation, which is a simplified version of the object, with the visual essence of the object retained.

2020

7 x 14 in

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, & Adobe Illustrator

2020

8.5 x 5.5 in

Adobe Illustrator

This project required each student to pick a woman designer who has or is influencing the design industry, and create a presentation explaining her life, her design techniques, and her achievements. This handout was created to facilitate the presentation and so that every student could have a brief biography of each designer in their sketchbooks. I picked Paula Scher because I appreciate her work and her graphic identities for brands like Tiffany & Co. revolutionized the regeneration of contemporary American brands.

2019

Adobe Illustrator, Pencil, and Ink

Project with the intent to create meaning by moving from the literal to the abstract to produce metaphorical meaning and complex concepts through simple changes both physically and digitally to the principal icon, the leaf.

Tribute to Ken Hiebert’s icon and programs of transformations project