Creating this fictional magazine was my favorite project to complete since I have a great interest in creating the design and layout of magazines. First, I thought about the topic that I wanted my magazine to be about as well as the demographic that the magazine would target which helped to narrow the design choices I was going to make for the magazine. After…
I wanted to include an example of my work with a client to show my process. Horton’s Kids is an organization in Washington, D.C. that aims to provide necessary aid for children and families in Ward 8. In the Spring of 2022 through my Design Studio II course, I collaborated with three other students to create a rebranding for Horton’s Kids. I gained really great experience working with a client and listening to their desires and needs to give them exactly what they wanted even if the final product might not match my personal design aesthetic…
This project helped me gain a better understanding of typography, and how to use it as a design element so that it looks like an intentional part of the composition. We worked through eight phases of typographic design that increased with difficulty by adding other elements like line, shape, multiple weights and sizes of fonts, and images…
For an entire semester I learned the fundamentals of the deconsructivist style and completed exercises that helped me learn how to design in this challenging, postmodern style. After doing research and exercises on deconstructionist architecture, I chose two architects, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry, to…
This projects started off with one hundred sketches of unique ways to design the letter “A” either lowercase or uppercase. After completing these sketches I then took my favorite ideas into illustrator and ended up with fifty different interactions of the letter “A”. This project really helped me to start…