Senior Year Fall 2009

My undergraduate career seems to be going by faster and faster. This past semester, Fall 2009, was a hell of a lot of work. I’ve been overachieving like a preppy little schoolboy, but I feel like all the hard work is definitely worth it. My portfolio has definitely grown significantly with six new additions, of which are solid works. My course load this past semester was 20 upper-level credits, 1 massive senior thesis, a 36′ x 8′ Homasote display wall, and the responsibilities of being the President of the RPI Graphics Club. I somehow managed to pull off a 3.93 GPA this semester despite the high work load, which required superhuman abilities to complete. The elusive 4.0 GPA still evades me… aghh! Continue Reading…

This graph is a visual guide to choosing a movie and playing time, based on IFC’s feature films for the week of September 14th.

It’s been a while since I posted. I finished the spring semester with a 3.77 GPA, and a 3.84 GPA overall. Hard work but it’s worth it. I recently redesigned my website to advertise myself as a freelance designer. I think the redesign is a success – warmer colors, better content layout, and slick jquery and mootools effects. I hand-coded the static pages with PHP, CSS/XHTML, JavaScript (mootools & jquery), and of course kept WordPress for my blogging backend.

I integrated the flickr API into my frontpage to display random images from my flickr account. I also integrated my last.fm account to display a live stream of the album covers to the music I am currently listening to – thanks to KomodoMedia for the Sexy Music Album Overlays! In addition, I’ve got my facebook status being piped into the ‘About’ page, of which I had to run through some loops to get working.

I am currently looking for web design or other graphics related work, and I hope my redesign will help bring in some clients with the aid of craigslist and other resources.

I created this poster for my Typography final project. It uses the Bree typeface and was created with Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CS4. The poster size measures 24×36 inches.

The package label reads:
The vision of this project was to express the feeling of being so deeply captivated by design that you can’t help but stare, only to soon find yourself in complete awe with drool dribbling down your chin. The concept behind ‘Drool Over Design’ is to emotionally connect with the viewer to make them feel and appreciate the particular emotions that only great design can evoke. This crafted artwork expresses
love for design using plenty of drool, grungy textures, and gorgeous typography.

“Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke emotional response.”   -April Greiman.

This project was created for my Typography class. The objective was to visually represent my cognitive perception of time over a 24 hour period. I had to document at least 10 typographic exemplars, as well as describe them and explain how they guide me throughout my day. The exemplars are based on a day trip to NYC.

A couple projects I did for my Typography class. The expressive word must “visually represent the meaning of a single word using typographical concepts.”
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Full size ‘Scatter’
Full size ‘Dimensional’