The College for Creative Studies Graphic Design Student Showcase is a yearly showcase of student work displayed to employers to showcase the school's talent. This year I was part of the team that created the showcase. I was responsible for the design and image formatting, while other team members focussed on the production and editing of work. I also created a print piece to accompany the website to send out to employers.

This series of 6 postcards was created to raise awareness for different aspects of UNICEF's campaign for the betterment of childrens' lives worldwide. I used the metaphor of a hand print and bright colors to emphasize the fact that UNICEF's main focus is on kids, since I believe that their main target audience easily forgets that. The backs of the postcards include more information on what the donations will be used for.

Poster part of a campaign promoting UNICEF's World Water Week.

Exploring a high school hallway as a basis for navigation, I noted the emotionally driven decisions teens make and the common act of note-passing to others, and based my project on emotions. Teens tend to make certain emotions more vocal than others. The representations of the stronger emotions are easier to "catch" in this piece than the emotions that generally stay hidden. The handwriting of the notes also adds to the expression of each piece.

A study of gang activity in the Hispanic Southwest Detroit area. The book includes a brief history and descriptions of the main gangs in addition to images of their graffiti and hand signs. Personal gang member stories are included, as well as a glossary in the back of commonly used terms and slang. This book was designed and written by myself after a few months of research and interviews in the area.

A poster created in conjunction with a book about gang life in the Hispanic Southwest Detroit area. The poster promotes the book. The type in the gun are excerpts from interviews with gang members from the area.

This interactive flash piece explores space while intriguing the user in the question of whether an image is originally taken with a digital or film camera. The game is used as a navigational element to guide the user throughout the piece explaining my interest in both film and digital photography.

As part of the Tripledose Creative Group, I created the website in collaboration with Gomar.

A set of 2 posters, the first poster is a denotative, informational representation of tanning goggles, the second is a connotative, cultural representation.

Having been given the text from the MOMA book Architecture and Furniture Aalto, we were to redesign the book basing our design choices off of our research on Alvar Aalto, the great Finish architect. My grid design for this book was inspired by the structure of his Baker House design, as well as his Paimio chair design. This was also the first book that I perfect bound by hand. Dimensions: 8x5.5 Pages: 26