Description
"Right Brain / Left Brain" is a collection of typographical quotes inspired by Graphic Design. The right side of the book is influenced by artistry (creative, visceral) while the left side is inspired by design (clean, lucid). While you are reading one part of the book the other half appears upside down to reflect their opposite personas in life. The book was published using Blurb and exhbited at Stockton College for my Senior Project.

Responsibilities
Concept, Art Direction, Book Layout, Mock-Up Production, Exhibition, Printing

Skill Set
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Blurb, Large Scale Print Production

• preview book
• photo set

Description
Heart & Sole strives to provide comfortable, fashion forward, and eco-friendly shoes and accessories that also benefit charity. Heart & Sole would design a version of each product based on the foundation represented (for example Breast Cancer would be pink). This is a fictional company entirely my own invention for my Senior Project class.

Responsibilities
Concept, Logo Design, Digital Product Mock-Up, Magazine Advertisments, Package Design, Web Design

Skill set
Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver (HTML & CSS), Flash

• photo set

Description
Boardwalk Brewery is a fictitious Beer Company based out of Atlantic City. This brew was inspired by Enoch "Nucky" Thompson who permitted drinking in Atlantic City during the 1920's Prohibition. The design for the packaging reflects it's vintage influences with a fun and modern twist.

Responsibilities
Design Concept, Art Direction, Graphic Production, Package Mock-Ups

Skill Set
Illustrator, Photoshop, Packaging
 

• photo set

Description
Ink Connection is a Visual Communtications newsletter that students were required to pick a topic and expand on how it pertains to Graphic Design. I chose my issue to be about the music industry and more specifically about album art. This was a fun and interesting piece to put together because it is an aspect of design I would like to explore professionally.

Responsibilities
Duotoned Color, Logo, Body Text (page 1), Image and Content Sourcing

Skill Set
InDesign, Photoshop, Print Production

• photo set

Description
I took place in an internship program that helped the band I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business put out their latest album "Gold Rush." This was a poster design I submitted for their "Pick What You Pay" tour posters. The only specifications the band required was a light blue background and the theme of hands.

Responsibilities
Poster Design, Graphic Production

Skill Set
Illustrator

• photo

Description
Using photo manipulation I created posters promoting healthy living for freshman. The first conveys the importance of appreciating your own natural beauty by showing a model covered in organic elements; the second show a girl drowning in a bottle of vodka to promote alcohol awareness; the third shows a smoker exhaling smoke from a factory to remind of the dangers of smoking.

Responsibilities
Poster Design, Photo Manipulation, Image Sourcing

Skill Set
Photoshop

• photo set

Description
This was a simple type exercise that I really enjoyed. I chose the quote depicted and reworked it multiple ways under given parameters using only the Gill Sans type family.

Responsibilities
Graphic Design, Type Layout

Skill Set
InDesign, Typography

• photo set

Description
iRewardU is an app for iPhone and iPad that allows the owner to offer a reward for the return of their missing device. I created a scalable vector logo for the home screen.

Responsibilities
Logo Design

Skill Set
Illustrator

• photo set

Description
For this assignment I created a two spread magazine layout for an article on Do It Yourself projects.

Responsibilities
Type Layout, Graphic Production, Image Sourcing

Skill Set
InDesign, Illustrator

• photo set

Description
Ugly Door is a recording studio in Toms River, NJ. I was initially contacted to create a placeholder site; my design was met with such positive feedback that they decided to have me go through with the entire website. It was very important for the client to have a clean look and feel that was mobile and tablet friendly.

Services
Web Design, Branding, Art Direction, Maintenance

Skill Set
Dreamweaver, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery

• launch site
• photo set

Description
For this project my aim was to create a lively website for students interested in visiting the city of Barcelona, Spain. The design is photography based to showcase the beauty of the city while still focusing on the content. Most of the information for this site was provided by numerous travel website, although I was able to write in a great deal from my personal experiences.

Responsibilities
Design Concept, Image Gallery, Image and Content Sourcing

Skill set
Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator

• launch site
• photo set

Description
Tumblr has become a personal facination of mine. For those who don't know, Tumblr is a social media blogging platform (similar to WordPress). Naturally, I have customize my multiple themed blogs to my own design so I taught myself Tumblr's unique coding structure. One of my blogs, Cupcakes for Everyone, served as a fully functional small business site for selling for my cupcakes.

Responsibilities
Layout Design, Logo Creation, Graphic Production

Skill Set
Tumblr Markup, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Hand-coding, logo design

• photo set

Description
The non profit Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize was in desperate need of a redesign for their website. They wanted a design that was fun, casual, and inviting. I came up with a design proposal for them as part of my Advance Web Design class my senior year.

Responsibilities
Template Design, Website Design, Digital Mock-Ups

Skill Set
Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Hand-coding, Illustrator

• photo set