A professional journal developed and designed by a class of designers, the book is processed through layout, pagination, imagery, and understanding the printing process. The issue centered around revealing what's under the unknown and dealing with unfamiliarity.
My contribution: pagination, layout, and many of the photos used in this issue
Within a gallery in the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a gallery guide is designed to encompass a theme that will walk the visitor throughout the exhibit. The guide is meant to reflect a jewelry catalog and bring familiarity to new content. People often see jewelry as valuable and of class, but museum jewelry (specifically in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia) simply as artifacts. Designing a museum guide to parallel the tone of a catalog allows the user to see how jewelry was just as important to the people in the past and move away from the feeling that this is just a museum.
The infographic highlights and outlines the history of the sex trafficking industry in South Korea and how it is still impacting the people and country today. The purpose is to educate through design and show information in a serious yet digestible manner because the content is heavy and dark.
Design for a specific client who struggles with a specific problem. From understanding the client's main problem and the solutions that could possibly push them to overcome the issue, the product was to follow a method of surveying, following up with the client, and designing for an individual instead of the public. Depending on the client's problem and personal preference, the product could range from a mobile app to an organized system.
An exploration of light and how we are so often are self conscious of how we appear that we can get lost in how we view ourselves and how others perceive us.
[Spot the one difference in each pair of images. The image on the left is the original; the image on the right is edited. What's the difference?]
McKinley Health Center had a campaign in an effort to promote their wellness guide app. As a group, we conducted research, creative strategy, a budget, and creative deliverables that the client could use after the class was over. The concept behind this approach was to show that the app provides an easy system much like bus or train maps. We utilized this design as the colored lines and stops are universal internationally so everyone on campus can be familiar with the idea as using the app as a guide to navigate their wellness. The bus and fitness center ads would be the main focus as we found that many people notice the bus ads as it circulates around the campus, but the fitness ads cater to those who are already looking for ways to better themselves. The flyers and small coloring and activity books would be ways to engage students on the quad and throughout the university as a reminder to take care of themselves and illustrate in simple ways how to relax but to have it sponsored by McKinley.