EXECUTING RAPID SOLUTIONS

Pottery Barn directors selected my cover design for an acoustic album, sold in all stores nation-wide. Working closely with buyers to ensure the cd design would sit perfectly next to seasonal merchandise, I quickly created hand-made imagery using light-sensitive paper purchased from a nearby museum and organic flowers grown on a local farm.

below: the design applied to an in-store listening station
below, right: process work and four unused cd cover concepts

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RE-VISUALIZING INFORMATION

When the table of contents [of the book pictured below] is re-visualized in a circular diagram, users can access the information more like a website and better understand the interconnectedness of the material. And, yes, each small black dot accurately represents a physical page in the book, thus the length of each essay can be measured at a glance.

below: Screen: Essays of Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture by Jessica Helfand

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CRAFTING A LEARNING EXPERIENCE

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Department of Invertebrate Zoology needed to gain prominence within the city to increase its funding. Our team created a role-playing mystery game that shares the department’s story with elementary school students. The game’s framework is designed to be mailable for long-distance learning and is flexible enough to accommodate new content each year. The game is played individually and in teams using our tailored 2D, 3D and online resources.

top right: stages of the game
bottom, right: the game's identity utilizes hand-drawn type
below: a screen-grab from an animated online video message that appears during the game

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COMPOSING CONCEPT MAPS

To better understand—and communicate—Pittsburgh’s Monroeville neighborhood,
our team interviewed residents, scoured archives, and document the area to discover how
individual elements related.

below: an enlargement of the "Homes" section of the overall Monroeville concept map (right)

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