After a sudden commission, I undertook this weeklong project to develop an original website for Village Energy, a company that manufactures and sells micro solar energy systems in developing countries, incorporating recycled materials and the skills of local artisans. As Village Energy's identity only consisted of a logo, I also had to expand the company's identity in order to fill a website, including the creation of original illustrations.

Village Energy was my most involved web design project yet, greatly expanding and solidifying my practical knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I also successfully built the page to display correctly on several web browsers, including those on smartphones.

Visit Village Energy's website ⇒

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Identity and web design for the Ch'allma School, a project funded by Chicago's Field Museum that is building the first school in a severely impoverished area of Peru.

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Points is my design for a modern vector drawing application, currently under development. Information and interface screens are available upon request.

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Identity for a business specializing in traditional Dutch stroopwafels (waffle cookies). The design was created around a preexisting logo.

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Sandwich Science, a cookbook I created for my Typography II final. The book itself was assembled and bound by hand.

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An assignment for a course called Visual Systems in which I was tasked with turning the government's occupational outlook website into a hand-bound book. Each student was given one letter of the alphabet from which to draw their content; I received M.

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My concept for a redesign of the conventional power strip.

With the help of Quirky.com and its community of influencers, Pivot Power, an evolved version of this idea, is now available for purchase.

Pivot Power has raised media attention. You may read about it at Wired, Core77, Engadget, CrunchGear, and others. You can also learn more about Quirky and watch me describe Pivot Power in this video.

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The assignment was to pick a topic from the news to inspire a series of editorial images culminating in a large poster.

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For this project, I was to create a "map" of some information more personal than geography. I chose to look into why it can sometimes be so difficult to complete one's homework, borrowing methods used by quantum physicists to visualize higher spatial dimensions.

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From a book presenting research on a nature documentary screened for my class. The film, "Crash: A Tale of Two Species," related the story of two geographically disparate, biologically different animals whose survival is nevertheless inextricably linked. All quotes and images in the book are from the documentary.

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For this project, I was to tell a story through pictures in a three-minute "visual narrative," something between
a storyboard and a full-on animation. I chose to base my project on a monologue from Edward Albee's play
The Zoo Story.

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An assignment for Typography II to redesign book covers using any media.

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A final project for Color. The assignment was to pick a theme and create a series of twelve images as a calendar, drawing color palettes from the appropriate seasons. I chose sports for my theme. To help capture the nostalgic, P.E. feel I was looking for, I scanned illustrations from a 1950's Keds Sports Handbook, published by the US Rubber Company, and worked them into my compositions.

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Logos created for Quality Table Pad, a business that of course sells protective pads for fine wooden tables.

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A series of 4"x9" postcards promoting and explaining the campus in Ghana, West Africa.

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Webpage designs, including bespoke icons, that I created during my internship with Chicago's The Royal Order of Experience Design. One of The Royal Order's designers and I each developed separate directions for the site, and shifted production to the client's preference; as such, the images here began in collaboration. The client, Tutor-Mentor Connection, is a nonprofit based in Illinois.

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Exercises for early typography classes in which I was to create a logo and apply it to full branding package: business card, letterhead, and envelope.

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Album covers for an electronic music project under the name Rufio.

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An animation I created in tribute to Mr. West during RISD's Freshman Foundations program in 2008. It was my first time ever using Adobe Flash; my apologies for the long load time and lack of any progress indicator. You shouldn't have to wait more than a minute or two.

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A variety of design and non-design work completed before declaration of my major.

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