Selected Works
As a creator who designs, I have worked on a plethora of design projects outside the scope of my professional work. What you see below is a collection of works that have been done just "for fun."
Trade Conference Hero Concept
Objective
Design a hero page for a trade conference.
Purpose
In creating this page, I wanted to push my visual design skills further by designing in a style that I often don't.
Visual Design
Rapid Wireframing
Objective
Redesign the brand and website of Yolk Cafe in Chicago.
Purpose
This project afforded me with an opportunity to iterate upon something that had been established. As bonus I was able to work within Illustrator to practice creating word marks.
Branding
Visual Storytelling
Viola Vintage Studio Redesign
Objective
Uutilize grids to redesign the landing page for an existing website.
Purpose
Once the grid structure was in place, I aimed to modernize the structure of content and add visual design in a way that was inspired by the existing brand.
Objective
Create an animation that utilized paralax scrolling.
Purpose
In keeping with the upward trend of including animation within UI, I set off to explore parallax scrolling as a form of animation in UI.
Objective
Design a desktop native application .
Purpose
This project was conducted to ideate and produce a concept for a desktop-style application. Additionally, animation was applied to bring visual interest to the design.
Visual Design
Animation
UI Design
Expression Through Typography
Objective
Alter a single typface to represent 7 ideas.
Purpose
The exercise set about as a means to explore the expressive nature of typography and how diverse just one typeface can be.
Architectural Firm Website Concept
Objective
Design a website for an architecture firm.
Purpose
"Given a company's specific content type, how would that inform design decisions throughout a website?" This was the question that guided the work on this highly content driven project.
Informational Website Concept
Objective
Design an informational website for a typeface.
Purpose
The purpose of this project was to design a mock website with a single idea as the hero & foundation for the website's style, content, and structure.
Typography
Visual Storytelling
Animation
Objective
Recreate Google Drive as a high-fidelity wireframe.
Purpose
I set out to make a copy of Google Drive to practice my design skills, sharpen my design eye, and examine how to design for large amounts of content.
Objective
Recreate Instagram as a high-fidelity wireframe.
Purpose
As an example of beautiful and usable UI design, I decided to attempt gain a better understanding of that design by recreating it.