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.
Overthinking the process of an overthinker
An insight into my creative process
This project is the product of an assessment with rigorous analysis of my creative process. I identified basic patterns of my approach to design and in turn identified challenges that could be improved. We were asked to develop directives and make printed cards to share with the rest of the GDMFA class at MICA.
I chose to develop this website as a presentation tool for my own process. I am interested in continuing to track the creative process and in turn make it a more public resource. The interface walks through the main steps of my process and displays small points about each one of them; it also points out pieces of information I want to improve on while on the process. I discovered a fascination with the shape of content and a passion for telling stories through design, and adjustments in process can be a valuable tool for any designer.
Because of the nature of the process, the project lent itself to be shared. Young Sun Compton,Nicolas Kremershof and I developed and designed a mobile website that would assemble all of the classes' directives and share them online.
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year completed
2012
team members
x11
skills
interaction design
research