Cumulus

Senior Thesis
Spring 2011
Clouds, time, flow, user interface, browsing history, data visualization, web applicaiton

The internet can be an overwhelming place, filled with an infinite amount of information as well as distractions.


Time seems to slip away when you find ten new blogs to follow, or see what your friends are up to on a certain social network. It's so easy to browse for hours at a time online, not knowing entirely how that time was spent, losing perspective as well as valuable links within your flat internet history.


Now there's a new way to look at your own complex relationship with the web.

Final Website
Concept
Wireframes
Exhibit

Lynda Rebrand

Identity
December 2010
Branding, Identity, Online Learning, Web, iPhone

Lynda.com is an established leader of online learning in the creative industries and beyond. This is my reimagination of their website and brand elements.

Sketching
Execution

SWAN

Identity
March 2010
Branding, nonprofit, women, third world, microloan

Serving Women Across Nations is a nonprofit connecting women in the states with women in developing countries through micro-loans, changing the lives of women everywhere. In creating a rebrand for SWAN, my goal was to create a logo mark that transcends obvious avian iconography while being strong and feminine. The resultant hand-painted logo turned out to be a playful exercise in gesture and implied form.

Execution
Swan 02 Swan 02 Swan 02 Swan 02 Swan 02 Swan 02

START Magazine

Identity
December 2009
Branding, identity, magazine, street art

START (Street Art) Magazine is the premier resource for current and emerging artists within urban art culture. For this project, I approached creating an identity for a quarterly print-based entity in a holistic way, starting with a logo mark and extending that through the system. By creating a strong grid and form, I was able to allow for a system that could change it’s colors based on the quarterly issue, or by department.

Execution

Drift

Microsite
March 2009
Stop-motion, drift, flash, rain

Evolving out of the ‘drifts’ that came out of the Fluxus movement in the mid ‘60s, Psychogeographic Mapping is a way of exploring ambience and emotion within urban spaces. Created in Flash, this website attempts to emulate the feeling of a rainy seattle day just after snow through stop motion shorts tied to points on a map of my journey.


View the finished website here

Execution

Experience WA

Identity
May 2009
Branding, whimsical, cut paper, motion, tourism

Designed as a portion of the Washington State Tourism website, Experience WA is a way to connect users with everything Washington has to offer. As an exercise, I went about creating an alternative view of Washington that was whimsical and hand-made, all of the collateral revolving around the 10 second motion piece I created.

Execution

Odds & Ends

The following collection of black and white photographs are from a book I created called Lucky. Silly. Happy. which told a visual narrative of a day in my life during my Junior year at Cornish. All of the photos were taken with a Cannon AE 1, developed by hand and scanned. I use visual puns and strong compositions to explore where I fit in the city and the environment around me.



These are a smattering of posters I've created during my time at Cornish.

Cocoon
Cocoon 01 Cocoon 02 Cocoon 03
Cornish Infographic
CornishInfographic 01 CornishInfographic 02 CornishInfographic 03 CornishInfographic 04
Nosferatu
Nosferatu 01 Nosferatu 02 Nosferatu 03
The Inferno Cycle
Poster 01 Poster 02 Poster 03
Hair of the 20th Century
Temporal 01 Temporal 02 Temporal 03 Temporal 04
Others
MaxwellPoster 01 Ww3poster 01