Second Chance is a nonprofit located in Baltimore that provides people, materials and the environment with a second chance. They deconstruct buildings/homes and salvage usable materials in order to make those available to the public for reuse. With the revenue generated, they provide job training and workforce development for those with employment obstacles. , salvage usable materials and make those available to the public for reuse. With the revenue generated, we provide job training and workforce development for those with employment obstacles.
Student Work - I wanted to approach this redesign with a clean and simple look to make it more user friendly but also still representing an environmental friendly aesthetic that this nonprofit represents. With this simple layout it allows its users to get a clearer understanding of what Second chance really is and emphasizes its materials, missions, and who they are as a nonprofit.
All pictures/materials credited to Second Chance!
Inspired by the Nicholson Baker's "The Way the World Works." How he expressed string as very simplistic object yet metaphorically it can be seen as this free-flowing and seemingly endless object. It gave me a nostalgic feel about my childhood that I wanted to further explore. I played with the string's free form by drawing the letters whimsically instead of using a generic typeface and used a popular string game in my childhood "cat's cradle" as the content for my poster. It not only served as information on my poster but also gave it another layer of texture.
I wanted to show the transition of me moving from a suburban city (my hometown) to a more urban city (where my college is located) and show my findings in how different the lifestyles were whether it was the outside noise or just the buildings themselves.
Quote from William Carlos Williams "Willow Poem" - made with variety of different herbs and spices like Curry, Chili pepper, Paprika, Oregano, Basil, and others. I wanted to capture the intensity of the words yet play them off with a literal item representing heat. Individually photographed the letters on black velvet. // poster: 18"x24"
My process using the spices to create the letter forms.
MINUS is a fictional conference that focuses on the visual concept of "less is more" Does this “minimalist technique” effectively motivate artists to be communicative in a creative way or does it produce a lack of creativity in their compositions? This conference will present workshops, lectures, and discussions that will attract both seasoned and incoming designers alike with a new insight in creating and thinking about minimalist designs.
This website redesign challenged me to take their original site’s bold and blinding colors and tone it down to a more soothing color that matched their logo. My intended goal was to make the site more user-friendly as well as keeping it very clean and simple.
Credits: Cafe Calore logo and all uses image to their rightful owners
A typographic magazine design of my interpretation of the articles Innovation Right Now: A 21st Century Guide edited by Lonnie Spark.
Having an interest in psychology and knowing that it is a very complex subject, I searched to find a solution to hopefully make the material easier to grasp for those interested in learning it. My decision to accomplish this goal was to use infographic elements as a way of making it a more colorful and fun way of learning about psychology and its statistics.
In response to my Black and White Shadow Series inspired by Paul Strand, I focused on capturing lights that we see everyday. I played around with the perspectives to see how they would project through my camera lens to see how obscured the object would actually become with each change.
Black and White photography series that focused on casted shadows formally inspired by Paul Strand's Shadow Series. I was so fascinated how his pictures became three-dimensional even though it is on a 2D media and how ambiguous the forms of the shadows became. I experimented with interesting shadows formed by things we see everyday that we sometimes overlook. I then took those interesting shapes and emphasized them by their cut outs to relate back to the ambiguous forms that Paul Strand had in his photos.
