Design work is essential for enhancing functionality, usability, and aesthetics across industries. It fosters emotional connections, improves communication, and drives engagement. From products to branding and architecture, good design solves problems creatively, elevating experiences and impacting lives positively.
In the fast paced age of generative AI, I created a series of posters resembling well known album covers that spread awareness of AI in the design industry, illustrating some benefits as well as warnings to the use of generative AI models. Inspired by The Beatles’ Abbey Road, I illustrate the evolution of design tools, starting with a cave person and their charcoaled stick, followed by a renaissance woman with a paintbrush, and finally a modern day designer hand in hand with a robot, representing AI models. Secondly, A poster based off of Queens’ News of the World, shows what can happen to your designs if you rely to heavily on AI models. Which is killing the art behind design work, represented by an iron giant crushing a paintbrush in his grip. Finally I created a poster based off Nirvanas’ Nevermind album. Illustrating the ability to streamline design processes of busywork and save artists time and effort on their journey to reaching the dollar bill.
Being a world renowned R&B and soul musician, the words that Mac Miller spoke propelled him into the ears and hearts of millions. I tried to capture this in a magazine spread mourning his passing in 2018. I created his portrait completely out of the lyrics of many of his songs. I coupled this with a full page article and captivating text arrangement. Mac Miller was my favorite hip hop artist throughout my early years of middle and high school, and seeing him progress as a person really showed me that despite being scary, change is not only okay, but can truly be beautiful.
Local stand-up comedian John Imperatore for On the Sauce Productions approached me in need for a new style of promotional poster for his monthly shows at a well known local venue The Judge Roy Bean Saloon. He was looking for a more eye catching and professional poster than he had been using before. He wanted to implicate comedian portraits in a way that wasn’t too boxy or grid like. The brick backdrop is made to replicate the interior of the venue. I used a drop shadow under the headliners text as well as the comedian portraits to replicate the spotlight used in most comedy shows.
Tasked with creating product idea and app concept, I created the “Groovy Koozy”, an insulated multi-size can compatible koozy with a built in bluetooth speaker. The app creation that followed combined elements of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and AmpMe, along with music platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify. The style was intended to give the feeling of a party casual function. The logo I created is created to be simple enough that it could be used across many different mediums but recognizable compared to other products with similar purposes. The app was mocked up using figma and can be viewed here.
While on a design internship for the Massachusetts’ North Shore Chamber of Commerce, I was tasked with shooting, editing, and creating the front cover of The Chambers “Impact Magazine.” This Magazine highlighted the influential and highly successful women who belong to the Chamber and lead the way for other women to craft their futures. Unfortunately at the time of the photo shoot, Hannah (top right of cover) had been exposed to the Covid-19 virus and was unable to attend the cover shoot. She submitted a seperate portrait to which I seamlessly added her into the final copy of the cover. I then added the neccesary elements which were sent to print and distributed to companies and businesses all over the North Shore of Massachusetts.
For a print design class, I was tasked with recreating the cover of the world renowned book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. After reading the story, I took the iconic pigs head silhouette and illustrated it in such a way that the face is comprised from different aspects of the story, such as the children around the fire, Piggys’ glasses, and more. This illustration was created in illustrator and photoshop exclusively.
Through an internship at Roger Williams University, I worked closely with Donna of the Bristol Benjamin Church Senior Center to update and professionalize their website. This involved creating style guides, expanding website pages, and shooting staff and board of director portraits as well as member portraits. The software of choice by the Senior Center was wix. The full and final website can be visited here