All 14 Posters in 14 Days with Some Variations Included
While exploring ideas and themes for a thesis, I entertained the idea of designing a poster per day over a period of time. I designed fourteen posters in fourteen days. The content of the posters were based on some of my writings or based on personal experiences throughout the day. The intention was to not […]
About 17 million more people voted in the 2020 Presidential election than in the 2016 election. In the 2020 election, just under 2 out of 5 citizens over the age of 18 did not vote, that is about 103.7 million potential voters. In 2016, over 2 out of 5 did not vote, that is about […]
First-year and out-of-major students were asked to create photographic montages using architectural photography or other related elements. Students were also receiving their first foray into file management, selection techniques, layers, and layer masks while learning Adobe Photoshop. This assignment is based on the history of photographers experimenting with the medium’s physicality and creating a whole […]
Students from the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus, were asked to create an animated banner ad using After Effects for an exhibition or lecture about its subject. The choice of subjects were scientists or explorers that were well regarded in their respective fields of study. Students were learning the software program as well as information […]
Students developed the following poster designs as a visual interpretation using their own written content. This project was the culmination of a first-semester graphic design typographic class at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Students first chose a set of words of their own liking and then investigated how those words may fit into grammatical structures […]
University of Minnesota and George Mason University
This project asked students to distill the essence of a film into a single image and a single word or two words — the movie title. The challenge: create a visually compelling movie poster that captures the film’s emotional tone, narrative arc, or pivotal moment, using only the film’s title and one dominant visual element. […]
First year graphic design students at the University of Minnesota — Duluth, were asked to create branding for a local eatery of their choice. The logo would be used for a take-out app design and as inspiration for identifying icons used within the app. The visual language of the brand would also be used for […]
The following is a research and photo documentation project called, Textures. These photographs and layout experimentations are based on my daily walks through the woods of Massachusetts and Minnesota. They are photographs of places that I continually journey past but have decided to pause this one moment and take a closer look at the landscape […]
On Lost is a 300-plus page mosaic of short writings about growing up in Pennsylvania, about friends that I have known, and about getting a little lost in the woods in northern Minnesota. There are people and places lost throughout these stories, but also of things that are found, as well. A sense of […]