Build Accepting and Inspiring Spaces in the World
This poster visualizes one of my calling intentions:
How can I build accepting and inspiring spaces in the world to invite creative expression and uncover human curiosity?
The typographic and textural presentation of this poster was influenced by the way bubbles pack around one another, shaping their form, much as creative people inform and inspire one another’s work.
The Most Sustainable Product You Can Buy
The brief for this poster was to explore the “intersection of design and truth” for SJSU’s Design Values and Professional Practices class. Professor Joe Miller had recently asked us to create presentations about sustainability in design, which is where the idea for this poster arose.
Iteration one of this poster was a spoof on the Regan administration’s failed “Just Say No” campaign, but I decided my peers probably wouldn’t get the reference and the image of an empty shopping basket was simply too alluring. Ultimately this poster was an exploration in one of the internal conflicts that many of my generation’s designers will probably face, that our jobs are to communicate messages and market goods and services, but in doing so we further endanger the future of our climate and planet.
Riding The Wind
The brief for this poster was to create a striking image that draws a viewer in and then uses an infographic to teach them about a topic they may not have known about. I had been using pinecones as a motif in a few of my other projects and decided that their method of seed dispersal was an interesting enough idea to run with.
I had previously modeled the pinecone you see in the top right as an experiment in Fusion 360, but the real challenge of this poster was finding a way to integrate the title into the falling seeds I also modeled. The first attempt I made rendered the text as part of the scene in Fusion, on a plane between seeds, but this never seemed to result in the effect I was envisioning so I ultimately decided to create several layers of rendered seeds and position the text after the fact in Illustrator.
Food Sovereignty
Concept mapping is one of the most potent applications of graphic design. The potential to improve the accessibility of complex information can allow for more informed and equitable discussions of complicated issues.
This poster about food sovereignty was designed to educate viewers about one facet of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals and provide resources about novel solutions to the problems we face in feeding the world without turning all of our available lands into factory farms. By breaking down the issues into multiple parts we can explore the granularity of each problem or solution without losing sight of the larger interconnected problem space it is a part of.
Aleksandr Rodchenko
This poster was made for an Art History class, detailing the history of Soviet designer Aleksandr Rodchenko and his works. Rodchenko is a designer I frequently look to for inspiration as both his layout design and photography are constantly looking at the world from non-standard perspectives. Obviously, this poster emulates his style in a few ways but the project also necessitated more text than his work usually includes, so I needed to be creative to make it all feel cohesive and still referential to the subject.