This project Looks at the outdated laundry care icons, and modernizes them with clean and easy to understand pictograms. It was the culmination of an academic unit looking at icon and symbol design.

The Canyon Companion website was an project which required an innovative and interactive use of information from the National Parks Service. Canyon Companion is a trip organizer, and activity showcase for planning a vacation to the Grand Canyon.

A type odyssey set out to explore the synthesis of type and image. The first part of the exercise was to use “type as text.” Then came “type as image.” This relic, which combines both type and image, was the last message received from aboard the famous space ship, Discovery One.

Project Mental’s was part of a class entitled: Editorial Visualizations. The goal of the project was to create media that conveyed accurately a mental disorder, in order to raise the awareness of the viewer. The movie I created for this project just might be a world first! The groundbreaking video utilizes a very new type of media called a cinemagraph; a mix between an image and a video. The clip is composed of scenes that are made entirely from cinemagraphs, one after another. An accompanying poster parallels the video in print form.

This project was a re-design of the parking meter. “Re-design coffee.” That was the assignment, which left open almost any aspect of coffee to explore. My zero gravity mug harkens back to the wild west days. Cowboys on the frontier depended on their fire roasted coffee so why should astronauts not have the same experience in the frontier of the future!

An exploration and re-imagining of the digital watch. This project was a re-design of a screen interface. It delves into the physical realm to find unique new ways to interact with a digital watch

An exercise in composition and typesetting, each composition had certain restrictions to follow i.e. font size or style. Within those restrictions though, a wide range of possibilities for dynamic and interesting typesetting was possible.

A hand bound book containing exercises in color and composition. The goal of the assignment was to experiment in color, and to express certain words by applying restrictive guidelines to compositions.

This project was a re-design of the parking meter. The system utilizes a large easy to read display adding a modern spin to the classic parking meter, while still taking advantage of technological advances in payment technology.

An exploration of color and composition in photography

This project was a mix between a complex folding challenge, an industrial design problem, and a sustainability lesson. The objective was to design fully functional cardboard stool that could not only hold the weight of a person, but could be assembled from recycled materials in no time and recycled again just as quickly if ever the need be.

Both a poster and an experiment, this project revolved around a line from a song being portrayed through the creation of a purpose specific typeface and surrounding composition. The line in the poster “I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon” is taken from the Pink Floyd song Brain Damage. The modernist sans-serif font, placed on a scale representation of the moon, embodies the laserlike sounds from the song adding further unity to the poster.

The “Open Door” project was selected to represent the University of Washington at the 2010 Microsoft Design Expowith the prompt ” service meets social”. Open Door envisions a borrowing and lending system that encourages neighborly bonding, and strengthens communities, while facilitating the needs of people in the community.

This project uses motion graphics to convey a word meaning by preforming the action the word represents.

A motion graphic depicting the solution to an industrial design problem. The problem at hand was to re-design a pharmaceutical pill bottle or system for taking pills in a way that both reduced accidents and was easy to use for a wide user base.

The original assignment was to create a lamp. This poster features that lamp. The poster uses graphic elements to represent the lamp shape and feel. The poster is composed based on the principles practiced in the color and composition process book.