My body of work includes projects for The Vilcek Foundation, GE, The Ecuadorian President's Office, Samsung, and Kimberly Clark. I have had the pleasure of working for Pentagram, VSA Partners, Gravitytank, Designkitchen and Sol Sender.
Expertise
Information design, user interface, brand identity, typography, web design, experience design, concept development, editorial design, prototyping.
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Maryland Institute College of Art
2011-2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication
The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
2010
Professional Experience
Information Design Contractor
Pentagram :: Abbott Miller
07.11– Present
Various information design projects ranging from data visualization, storytelling, and way-finding systems for various cultural clients.
Interaction Design Intern
VSA Partners
06.12– 08.12
Various interaction design & web development projects for various corporate and cultural clients. Prototype, ideation and business pitches for prospective clients.
Communication Design Fellow
Gravitytank
06.10– 06.11
User centered design ranging from user research, identity, prototyping, information, user interaction and interface design.
Graphic Designer & Assistant
Sol Sender
05.09– 01.11
Research, concept development, research and deployment of brand systems for diverse clients.
Web Designer
Designkitchen
02.10– 05.10
Brand identity, digital and web development for various clients in their digital capabilities.
Teaching Experience
Typography II
Maryland Institute College of Art
2013
Assigned a user interface project, assisted various software and material demonstrations in a variety of media and supported with other three projects. The class focused on building a complex set of skill-sets to get students ready to deploy typographic systems across different mediums.
Graphic Design I
Maryland Institute College of Art
2012
Students build their knowledge of Graphic Design by being introduced to principles of layout, hierarchy, composition and Gestalt.
Teaching intern for Brockett Horne.
Advanced Design Studio
Maryland Institute College of Art
2012
Senior-level course where students build their knowledge of design discourse and professional practice in the discipline through the ideation and execution of their individual senior project. Teaching intern for Jennifer Cole-Phillips.
Information Design
Chicago Portfolio School
2011
Students are exposed to principles of information design, research and basic formal mechanisms for the display of information. Students are challenged to display complex sets of information in a journalistic-manner in order to tell complex stories.
Meet Mr. Hanz Bruder,
my obsesively organized alterego.
In this study I developed an alternative persona for myself, one that amplifies, undermines, and rediscovers elements of who I am as a designer and where I want to be. Mr. Hanz Bruder, my alter ego, is a third generation swiss watchmaker who collects beetles. After creating a biographical diagram, I produced a new work of design in the mode of Mr. Bruder. In this exercise graphic design becomes a visual performance and as so, the design pieces are a manifestation of a different designer as well as his dialogue with design as a discipline.
The compulsive collective nature of the persona is reinforced in the book which serves as an index for all the pieces that make each watch and the proceses in which they were created.
This project was developed under the instruction of Jennifer Cole Phillips and Silas Munro at MICA.
year completed
2011
team members
x1
skills
information design
book design
The book is meant to be a catalog for the watches, showcasing the process in which each piece is created.
Process finds
These are some interesting forms found along the way.
