Junior Portfolio

This semester, instead of taking Interaction Design, I picked up an internship on campus working with the Office of Information Technology. Below are some of the projects I have worked on. The biggest, on-going project is updated branding and materials for ATX Hack for Change, a civic hackathon hosted by St. Edward’s University that invites anyone who’s interested in making change in the community to come brainstorm some ideas on how to make that change happen. Additionally, I’ve worked on advertising materials for campus events, such as the SEU faculty “Canvas Level Up” campaign.

I selected Russian designer El Lissitzky to create a catalog of his work and life as a designer. I have always been drawn to his style, and that of other Russian constructivists, and I was thrilled to create a catalog about his work. Rather than letting the catalog just be about his work, I decided to incorporate some of his pieces and mimic his style in nearly all of my design choices. From the beginning, I knew that a style that only incorporates two colors would be absolutely perfect to be printed on the Risograph, and so I carefully used this as the basis of setting up the catalog design. I only used two Riso-compatable color swatches, and the catalog is sized to be printed on a Risograph at St. Edward’s University, then folded down to the correct booklet format. This can be seen in my imitation of the interaction of squares (yes, another project with squares — completely incidental, I promise!) made of text blocks. I recreated some of my favorite pieces from his About Two Squares series and a collaboration he did with Vladimir Mayakovsky and for the publication For The Voice as vectors. The intent with these pieces is that they display some of Lissitzky’s compiled work that can be pinned up as a poster once the catalog is un-folded. This post will be updated with new images once they are printed on the Riso! For now, here is the interior spread of written information about Lissitzky and his life as a designer, plus the final image of compiled vectorized work to be printed.

Catalog Interior Spreads

Lissitzky’s Catalog of Work (re-created by vectors)

El Lissitzky Catalog

Shown below is a bit of an “untraditional” invitation. It was created with the intent to bring new visitors to Republic Square to take part in the farmer’s market hosted there each weekend. I really wanted it to have a very simplistic, mass-produced feel as something that could be given out at the vendor booths to advertise what visitors can expect to find that weekend. User experience played a very influential role in the layout of the invitation. The final size was the result of a play on the word square as an element of production rather than the location and helps to repeat the idea of square in a user-friendly, interactive way.

Presented above is the final assembly for this semester’s focus on Laguna Gloria. I created a visual guide of sorts to the invasive species on the grounds that are currently being managed and removed as part of the site’s renovation plan. The collections are assembled into an envelope style box stylized to match the colors and plants that are the cornerstone of the contents within. The last image is an example spread from the book’s digital file that lists the plants featured and gives a preface of the book’s contents.

Featured here is a series of mocked-up website pages for Laguna Gloria. The examples created are a home page, about us and upcoming events page, and an interactive map of sculptures page, utilizing the same illustrations from the poster designs.

Webpage 1

Webpage 2

Here is a set of two posters I created about the grounds on Laguna Gloria. The first poster is a large-scale map/poster that displays the twelve most notable sculptures on the grounds with custom vectors that represent them. The second poster accompanies the first by providing the information about each of the works on the map for curious audiences.

Poster 1

Poster 2