2006 UT Design Senior Show

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Universal Poster.

How To Kill a Zombie Poster & Comic This project presents a (somewhat) simple how-to process in two ways, a "universal" poster meant to mechanically present the information in an accessible way and an "idiosyncratic" comic which shows personality and the hand of the designer.

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Crushing Five/Typography Poster 13" x 25" PosterThis poster presents type samples of five typefaces which I had attempted to display in a rigid grid system, but five is an odd number so it ruined my grid.

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Jacque Samples.

Jacque TypefaceJacque is a narrative typeface; each keystroke is tied to an illustration of Jacque rather than a letterform, so when typing words or sentences you create a series of illustrations or comic panels.

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Images from magazine

Stem Magazine 7"x10", magazine Part of my senior thesis. I made a double sided magazine in which each side represented the dual meaning of the word "stem." One side reflected growth, while the other side represented the idea of holding back.

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1st conversation

3 Conversations 15"x25", posters Posters I made based on 3 separate conversations.

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Type Poster

Type Poster 20"x24", screenprint A poster showcasing 5 typefaces and their histories.

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This pillow has many arms to hug you while you do your homework.

tech-love fleece, lamé, hook-and-eye closures, elastic This cushion has removeable arms that can be tied in knots around the user. It was designed to be used with a laptop computer and to alleviate feelings of depression and negativity through its virtual embrace.

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Here we have an array of paper kittens.

Kittens and Sports: an experiment in arbitrary rule-making paper This project is the result of an experiment wherein guidelines were picked out of a hat; my rules stated that the project must include kittens, sports,and interactiveness.

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A sample of the innumerable quantity produced.

Lisa Frank Goes to War 4-color screenprint on various papers A group project with Elana Farley. One image from a color photograph was randomly overlayed with abstract designs. Each poster is unique.

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Helveticarial 2 posters, each 8x23 Pair of posters about the striking similarities and critical differences between Helvetica and Arial. Includes preforated wallet-sized reference cards at20extra charge.

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Game Postcards series of 8 4x6 postcards Set of 8 postcards generated in response to a byzantine set of rules. It's about a man who wears a bug suit and sometimes a sombrero and is a little bit insane.

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How to Make a Kite [Useless Directions] handmade viewmaster disc. Highly idiosyncratic how-to guide. The user gets text in one eye and pictures of convenience items in the other eye. Nearly impossible to build a kite like this.

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This image depicts a sound navigation mode that allows users to explore the details of their immediate surroundings.

3D Digital Audio Environment Navigation Digital This is a design of a navigation system for a 3D, digital, audio-only environment. The user understands their sense of place in relation to the sounds around them and the navigation commands they input with the mouse and keyboard.

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These nine symbols were created from five similar marks arranged into a set of symbols that relate to eachother, but were not intended to represent anything in particular.

Mark Making Digital I created a symbol set as part of a mark making project in Illustrator. The challenges of the project were to create a set of symbosl that relate to eachother, while paying close attention to the details of each mark.

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A collar for Edgar Allen Poe's precursor to the Dick Tracy character.

Collar Drawings Colored Pencil In a fit of insanity, I drew out some wierd, life-size collars.

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Staircase

Rock On Macromedia Flash A Flash puzzle commenting on instantaneous gratification. In this project, awareness and exploration are necessary. Thinking for yourself is a must. Try everything twice.

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First E

Essence photography, orange peels, styrofoam Essence A photo sequence defining the word "essence" visually.

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Inside View

Sky Dome foam, cardboard, cloth, plastic stars, kids This project was designed to help preschoolers with their spatial and motor skills. The dome's glow-in-the-dark stars are a suprise element discovered only when the entire piece is set up by collaborating children. Assembly is facilitated by the strategic placement of feeding and receiving ends on blocks and by color-coding the parts.

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Untitled time measured, time marked
by the number, we make hours
out in nature, things break down
course of cycle, come full circle

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Untitled plywood flat black sawn
what are your inner secrets
whisper in my ear

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Untitled plant your seed
do your deed
kick up your boot
let it take root

plant your seed
do your deed
sit back and wait
watch 'em take the bait

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Way Finding: Fine Arts Library Way Finding: Fine Arts Library was developed as a solution to problematic existing signage, which inhibited the navigation of the space. The proposed signage, recognizable icons, color scheme, and directional floor lines work together improving the organization and navigation of the Fine Arts Library.

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Iron and Architectural Design The iron gates and cabinet detailing compliment the old world style of this home. Each piece incorporates a curling shape allowing the ironwork to serve as a unifying element throughout the architecture of the home.

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Skut-Ze Children's chair The Skut-Ze is a unique chair designed for a preschool classroom setting. The chair efficiently incorporates preschool activities with storage space resulting in an improved educational environment.

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8 Panels.

Frantastic Printed media. This piece investigates image as landscape. The panels are a visual essay that communicates my physical and emotional experience through a city block in Austin, TX.

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Table Detail.

Coffee Tables Metal, glass, wood, coffee beans. Coffee+Table=Coffee Table

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Logo.

Identity: Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve Print media. This mark was designed in collaboration with Hunter and Ksenija. It represents the diversity that nature offers the Texas coast and the elements that are unique to the area.

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The Site Print media. Visual representation of the 38th / I-35 intersection, the first two frames (of six) showing how traffic affects the homeless.

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Sedaris Case Wood, plexi. Casing to protect a book that already has a cover. Overkill, or aesthetically pleasing?

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Loss Currogated plastic, electrical lighting hardware. Making desktop lighting by experimenting with corrugated plastic.

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Poster, wristband, and postcard.

Tooooobers Collateral Promotional pieces designed for the Professional Tooooobers of America Club. This poster, wristband, and postcard were created around a set of given rules: content must be about tubing, must use minimal color, must incorporate a photo, must be based on an event, and final layout must be in the shape of a rectangle.

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North vs South 8 Panels, each 8" X 8" These eight panels represent the inherent exterior qualities discovered as well as interior reactions encountered from my observation of a street in Austin, Texas. Specifically, I wanted to look at the North side of the block and its use of color and community involvement and compare that with the decay of both color and interaction that exists on the South side of the block.

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Logo.

MANERR Collateral Created to depict both a flowing stream as well as an abstract "M", this logo/paper system was designed with a group for Mission Aransas National Esturine Research Reserve.

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The Universal Pain Compass Print media. The Universal Pain Compass has been developed for use in doctors' offices all around the world. It is a product available for victims of chronic pain who don't have a means of measuring the changing rates of pain they feel throughout the day. There are a variety of ways patients can graph their pain. As it becomes more widely known, a uniform style of interpretation will develop.

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Barley and Pfeiffer Flash Project Digital media. This is a project I worked on with Casey Morse, another student in my class. We interviewed and researched green design and architecture through the Barley and Pfeiffer Architecture Firm and Peter Pfeiffer's home, one of the greenest homes in America. We documented our written and visual research in a Flash presentation.

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Pop Culture T-shirts Print media. I conducted a series of surveys to research current and remembered pop culture moments of my generation. I took my findings and created t-shirt designs based on the themes. These examples communicate ideas about sex, small dogs/designer monograms, and Mischa Barton's popularity.

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Poster.

Caslon Poster Digital Print A poster on all the "Q"s in all the existing Caslon typefaces.

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Letterforms in use.

Butterfly Sushi Typeface Digital Typeface The typeface --butterfly sushi-- was a hybrid typeface of an exploration of the forms of Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch Roman and Caslon 540.

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Mr. and Mrs. B.

Stuffed art Fabric and stuffing 2 series of stuffed art inspired by the Blanton logo and art works: the "B" family and "stuff" inspired by Ana Mendieta. They average about 1 foot tall. (Currently creating the new "egg" series). .

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2 Hours a Day

2 Hours a Day {more or less} My senior project grew out of the idea to "work two hours every day on something". After being surrounded with pressing responsibilities for 3 years, I felt I needed to dedicate more time to being creative, open-minded and unguided. In the process I managed to create a broad visual vocabulary.

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Language Words used everyday, "design speak" and an excuse to letterpress led to a project in three parts. The first a play on notes and "elitist" design speak combining design lecture notes & post it notes. The second, a study of interjections. And finally, the ultimate language mash up.

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Election_04

Audrey and Harry The 2004 election and previous voter turnout rates led me to to a hypothesis that if parents emphasized the value of voting and political awareness to their children at a young age, turnout and accountability may raise over time. I wrote, illustrated and constructed a children's book dedicated to the quest of two bears during their first election.

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Build A Colorful Meal Build A Colorful Meal is a color-coded dish set for children. Each food group has different dishes designed to hold one serving of a specific food type. The dishes snap together to build trays.

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Corrugated Plastic Beach Tote The beach tote was constucted out of corrugated plastic that was cut to allow the rigid material to become flexible and stretchable.

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10 Day Forecast for Fairplay, CO These are stills from a video that gives the weather forecast for Fairplay, CO using stop motion animation.

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Landscape eight 8x8 panels ...

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Weather Report animated After Effects ...

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Photo Experiment ...

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Untitled I photographed this picture and printed it in a beginning black and white photography class. The project was to investigate what we normally see from a different perspective.

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Indermascalis Combining words, I devised the word "Indermascalis", which means "the process of implanting scales into the skin". Using found images I created a poster to illustrate this new word.

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Full View

Scut-ze Three other students and myself developed this chair/toybox for use in kindergarden and preschool classrooms. We designed, furnished, branded, and implemented our product in a classroom setting.

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Reach Bag sewn cloth, velcro & buttons Communication aid for non-verbal/autistic children designed to encourage intimacy between child and parent.

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Backyard Buddy Poster layout explaining a fictional measurement device for composting.

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Textile Explorations Usage of traditional textile design methods to introduce contemporary themes and media.

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How To This "How To" project called for a universal solution and an idiosyncratic solution. The posters served as the universal solution and the idiosyncratic solution was to paste them alongside authentic wheat-pasted media. It was kind of like when MTV first played punk music, informative to the masses but had the power to reveal the secrets of an underground method of communication. Consequently, they were all gone within 48 hours.

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Field Trips These are photographs taken while on our excursions about Austin and the Texas coast in the "Design Perspectives" class taught by Elaine Shen. All of the multiple exposures were in-camera and taken by an old Lubitel (which loosely means "amateur") medium format camera.

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Folder System This folder system was designed and constructed for the 2005 portfolio review.

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A sample of some of the images.

Photographic Signage I've replaced generic signage with somewhat risque photography of my own. My photographic signs represent Men's & Women's restrooms, stairwells and elevators through themes of gender, sexuality and violence.

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The complete presentation board.

Trail Markers These granite structures are polished on top to mimic the reflective quality of the water they lead to. I constructed a model out of plaster and hand-painted it in order to make it appear and feel like actual granite.

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Posters showing both methods.

How to Survive a Shark Attack (Universal & Idiosyncratic Approaches) Universal Method: A generic poster-guide to be displayed on the walls of a scuba diving school. Idiosyncratic Method: A flashy poster displaying "Shark Guards", a set of neoprene wrist guards with the steps of surviving a shark attack down each (based on a ridiculous concept).

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BBQ Pageant Wallpaper, 2005 This wallpaper was inspired by my own rich Texas heritage of barbeque picnic and pageantry culture, as well as by antique satin-eared rabbits, Google image search, and victorian floral decor. Hand- screened in the U.S.A. This is the first of a series of wallpapers created for my "Senior Project".

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Phrenology Machine, 2005 Inspired by antique mechanical amusements, a measuring device of your head circumference and also your “self-worth” based off the psuedoscience of Phrenology.

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The Apathy Project, 2004 The result of a seven week research project in which I explored the issue of non-voting among college-age women.

After surveying women, I created designs to reflect what was important to my demographic, encouraging them to vote in the 2004 presidential election through a wearable vehicle.

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Story Map Each line on this Storymap charts one character's life and his/her intersections with other characters. Readers can enter these lives through the lines themselves, the call-out boxes which list major life events, or through the vignettes on the cards.

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How to Stir-Fry Cutting Board A screenprinted cutting board with nested bowls designed to teach my brother how to stir-fry with emphasis on ingredients order and usability.

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Loss Photographic form of a word. Loss is an intangible yet ever-looming presence, overwhelming yet subtle, not always obvious yet always unsettling, and above all, haunting.