Design a 16 page booklet for someone who knows nothing about your designer. Booklet To start off the booklet, I did a lot of research on Milton Glaser to understand his designs and philosophy. From this understanding of him as a person, I sketched out what overall narrative would be. I…

A Dive into the Life and Work of Milton Glaser — The age of modern design has been marked time and time again by the works of Milton Glaser, who has been redefining the industry for the past 60 years. …

Using new technology to mix reality and the virtual world — Imagine the world from the perspective of 10 years in the future. How much has changed? How much has technology integrated into our lives? For this project, Susan Ni and I were tasked to imagine that AR headsets have become sleeker, lighter, and commonality in daily life and to think…

Claude Monet Interactive Experience Exhibit — We were tasked to create an interactive hybrid exhibit for an artist featured at either the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Mattress Factory, or the Children’s Museum. Building a physical model of the space as well as designing for a space shifts my mindset…

Reflection on the semester so far in How People Work — Understanding Emotion The opening statement from Johnathan Chapman: “the aim of design is not to make everything easy for users” was both shocking and intriguing. The past grueling one and a half years at CMU Design have hammered into us that design should be efficient, elegant, and most of all easy. From…

Exploring the characteristics of Nobel through the medium of a motion video — Create a 60 second video demonstrating the characteristics of a typeface using After effects with a timeframe of 2 weeks. This motion video project highlights the characteristics of the Nobel typeface through a moving medium, which allows for unique expressions as well as constraints. …

Exploring the characteristics and personality of Nobel through a spread. — This project utilizes hierarchy, placement, and color to create a spread that explores the characteristics, personality, rhythm, and flow of the Nobel Typeface. Research and Writing —September 23, 2021— Nobel was created in 1929 during the geometric sans-serif era by Dutch designers Sjoerd Henrik de Roos and Dick Dooijes and became a popular…

An Exercise in Visual Hierarchy — Effective communication through typography relies on understanding of both the content being presented and typographic variables that deliver the message. These two main ideas will be explored through a series of posters and exercises for the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s 2021–2022 show season. Day 1: Research and Understanding Hierarchy —September 9, 2021—

Understanding Structure, System, and Form of Print and Web Design — The first exercise in understanding communications design entailed analyzing the Atlantic in both web and print form along with my group members, Sam Rauch and Jessica Lai. …