This is a selection of design projects I've done in the past two years of my student design career at the University of Houston. It consists of two dimensional, three dimensional, web and motion work.

The First Artificial Human Heart
Invention Study

print, clear plastic
6.5" × 6"

This is a series of bi-folds to commemorate the First Artificial Human Heart, by Robert Jarvik in 1982. For the full effect, it is literally designed in a medical folder style package. These bi-folds contain brief information of the history, function and miscellaneous trivia on the first artificial heart.

Punk Explosion: Rockin' Recipes
Subculture Recipe Book

print, found objects
7" × 7"

Punk Explosion: Rockin’ Recipes is a fictional cookbook that contains a set of twelve recipes for an unhealthy Punk diet. It captures a ‘made by Punks, for Punks’ DIY (do it yourself) ethic and communicates distinct punk behaviors and beliefs including anti-authoritarianism, non-conformity, direct action and not selling out.

While most are food related, some recipes include habitual activities such as cigarette smoking and heroin breaks. The directions are written with a crude attitude and even blurbs of vulgar language.

Snared
Chap Book

print, steel wire
9" × 6"

The Glass Mountain Boldface Chapbook is a collection of writings, short stories and poetry produced by the Creative Writing Department of the University of Houston. The stories and poems portray very intimate and personal scenarios in which characters provoke strong emotions but also reveal vulnerabilities.

The concept, Snared, tells about a sense of pain, turmoil and dissatisfaction. A ‘maze’ or ‘labyrinth’, a massive entanglement of graphic lines, serves as a visual metaphor representing the never-ending journey for these characters.

Building WIT Music
Identity System & Charity Concert

print,
poster 18" × 36"
modules 18" × 18"

This multi part identity system belongs to Building WIT Music, a fictional charitable organization with the mission to raise funds for education in third world countries. Based in the United States, Building WIT Music has organized a group of celebrity musicians to perform at the concert event, Jamfest 2010, reaching out to those in Africa.

Poverbesity
Information Graphics Mailer

print
poster 16" × 24"

Studies have shown that there is a link between poverty and obesity. A number of issues are causing this problem including the lack of education, jobs and access to nutritional foods. Poverbesity is an obesity awareness campaign created to collect money and food donations that will ultimately reach those in need.

MFA Masters Thesis Exhibition 2009
Poster, Catalog, Postcard, Wall, Newsprint Ad

print
poster 23" × 33"
catalog 8" × 6"
postcard 8" × 6"

MFA Masters Thesis Exhibition is an annual exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery. While a monograph represents the voice of an artist during a specific period of their work, the thesis exhibition represents a multiplicity of artists in a range of disciplines.

The print material designed for the exhibition communicates a fusion of interdisciplinary work by multiple artists. It attemps to encapsulate the voice and spirit of the exhibition. The cover, title treatment, paper selection, image reproduction, organization and text details provide an extension of the artists' work.

Happy Treats with Telescoop
Desk Calendar

cardboard, clear plastic
2.5" × 7.25" × 2.5"

Happy Treats with Telescoop is an inventive design product that initially serves as a doggy treat container, and transforms into a poop scooper as it is emptied.  It speaks of the growing importance of product sustainability, focusing on its packaging’s second life. A fully sustainable packaging that leaves no waste, looses no quality, and becomes a useful product in its own right.

Randy
Paper Craft Toy

print
7" × 9" × 5"

Paul Rand was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Based on his problem-solving persona, Randy was created in paper craft form. This creature references a combination of different forms extracted from Paul Rand’s works. It communicates his design strengths through its imaginary superpowers.

Quick n' Quirky Quotes
Board Game

print, cardboard, timer
board 15" × 11"
box 8" × 11.5"

Every graphic designer should be familiar with Typography. Quick and Quirky Quotes is a two-player board game that is built to sharpen one’s ability to spot typographic mistakes. It is a time-based game that, at the end of each match, whomever has a higher score in card count wins!

Alphabetic Coasters
Coasters

print, illustration board
4" × 4"

Description coming

Daydreamer 2010
Desk Calendar

print, plexiglass
15" × 8" × 4"

Creativity can sometimes stem from daydreams. Daydreamer is a calendar that explores abstract imagery and motion. Each month is represented by a significant daydream through texture, color and graphic lines/shapes. Some months are clearly referential while others suggest things we may associate with.

Houston Food Bank
Scale Model & Book

print, cardboard, styrofoam, wood, steel wire
24" × 50" × 8"
print, wood, aluminum sheet
7 " × 8"

The Houston Food Bank is in the process of assuming a new and much larger space. In small collaborative groups, our task was to inform and enhance the new facility with large scale environmental graphics and three-dimensional enhancements.

A narrative was created from an industrial context of the food bank by breaking the process down to its simplest form. Give, sort, package and serve were four steps that ultimately transform donated consumables into nutritious meals. Iconography, imagery, surfaces and messaging were used as visual components to our design proposal. This approach speaks of a strong driving force, which was a vital component in supporting the mission and goals of Houston Food Bank.

Ceramic Water Filter
Sustainable Product Awareness Website

digital

A website built to popularize a simple, yet very effective, clean water solution for third world countries. Some charities advocate the use of Ceramic Water Filters because its relatively low-tech production can be made on site.

launch website

Conservation of Natural Resources
Motion Typography

digital

A motion typography piece created in relation to a newly acquired park reclaimed from an industrial part of Houston, Japhet Creek. The selected quote is from Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, 1907, that describes the idea that post industrial decay yields waste. It brings up the question: when does it end?

Rococo
Art Movement Website

digital

Rococo is a well-known art movement that can be read about in art history books, yet very few websites on Rococo exists. This is a contemporary version that has a different take on its flourishes and delightful style. Combining repetitious lines and animated menus, it offers visitors information and images of its beautiful past.

launch website

Google Docs
Interactive Media

digital

Google Docs is a relatively new way to create and share your documents online. Since many people are still not familiar with what this technology offers, an animated interface was created to introduce its services.

launch media

UNBLOCK 2010
Graphic Communications
Senior Exhibition Website

digital

BLOCK is the process of taking 21 young, aspiring designers and breaking them down until there’s nothing left but their basic will to succeed. BLOCK is building them back up through an often agonizing process of research, experience, and learning the hard way.

launch website