September 2023

Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

8.5” x 11”

Display menu and disposable menu commissioned by My Cup of Tea, the official maid café of Anime USA.

GMU Spring 2023 Senior Capstone

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

6300 x 5400

Break Free refers to many things: breaking free from society, from constraints, from expectations, from binaries.

Continuing the themes of the Return to Cambrian print series, Break Free looks at how different printed layers interact with one another, this time with a focus on transparency and illusions of depth. The textile designs were digitally printed on cotton fabric then cut and sewn into garments, while the tote design was heat-pressed.

The design process itself began with selecting colors based on Spoonflower’s RGB color map. After the first iterations were completed, test prints were done to check colors, pattern alignment, and quality of screen tone textures. Adjustments were made to the water illustrations to make them seamless around all edges, and the typeface was changed to a round sans serif to enhance the relaxed mood of the design. The tote was designed after the textiles as a way to join the two. While it is heat-pressed, it was intended to be a 3-color screen print.

GMU Fall 2022

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop

2550 x 3300

The goal was to create an event calendar that followed the Kennedy Center brand guidelines. The document fits on a standard sheet of paper and can be hung as a flyer or folded down to postcard size for easy mailing.

GMU Fall 2022

Adobe InDesign and Illustrator

2550 x 3300

The goal of this assignment was to redesign the logo and branding of a company, and create an accompanying brand guide.

GMU Spring 2022

Adobe Photoshop and InDesign

5402 x 7214

This assignment was to choose a social issue and create an educational poster and zine.

Summer 2021

Adobe Illustrator

2237 x 2225

Winning piece for the Aerospace Outdoors Club East logo competition. The first piece is a transparent web logo while the second is a limited-palette design meant for printing on white t-shirts.

Fall/Winter 2019

Adobe Illustrator

This piece was created as a logo for a project within the Aerospace Corporation. It was designed to reflect the spirit and purpose of the project, while including the iconic Aerospace “A” and company colors.

GMU Spring 2020

Adobe Photoshop and InDesign

2550 x 3300

For this piece, I was tasked with creating a magazine cover to go with an article of my choice. I chose an article from Nylon magazine, “What Really Happens When You Donate Your Clothes—And Why It’s Bad,” which discusses the fast fashion industry and the mass quantities of clothes that get bought then donated by American consumers. I wanted to convey with the visual of the figure and the mountain of clothes, just how large an issue this has become, as well as the daunting task of solving it. Colors were chosen based on past Nylon covers and their website, which favors bright pinks, yellows, and blues. The issue that the article appeared in was the February 2018 edition; the cover of that issue originally focused on an article discussing models, which I reference in the text on the left.

GMU Spring 2020

Adobe Photoshop and silk screen

13”x19”

CMYK process printing with a spot layer of iridescent ink to accent text and hearts.

GMU Spring 2020

Adobe Photoshop and silk screen

9”x12”

This piece was done as part of an exercise in combining and editing images, and using layer masks. The collage is composed of nine different images with Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss as the focal point.

Screen print is CMYK process with a spot gold layer for the halo.

GMU Spring 2020

Adobe Photoshop and silk screen

9”x12”

Inspired by 1980’s horror movies and VHS tapes, the digital collage has multiple effects layered to make the image seem like glitched video on a CRT screen.

The screen print was done with black, scarlet, and mint. As little ink was used to enhance the visual noise and degradation of the image.

GMU Spring 2020

Silk screen

Approx. 14” x 19”

This series of varied prints focuses on the textures created by the different printed layers. Oil pastel was used on the transparencies to create grittiness and rough edges in the images.

The phrase “hot girl summer” refers to living your best life confidently and unapologetically; the trilobite, a simple prehistoric creature, lives free from society’s constraints and judgement. By rejecting modernity, one can be free and simple like a trilobite.

GMU Spring 2020

Adobe Illustrator

For this I was tasked with creating a comic adaptation of a piece of poetry. I chose the first verse of “Seventh Circle of Earth” by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong. The poem is from the perspective of a gay couple who were burned alive in their own home. I used soft blues to represent the couple and contrast with the harsh warmth of the flames. The pair is purposefully kept faceless, as there are no publicly available pictures of the real life couple, and to demonstrate how this kind of violence is enacted on many queer couples. I used text to enhance the imagery and echo the meaning of each line, drawing focus to specific phrases such as “erase.”

GMU Fall 2020

Digital Photography

6016 x 4000

GMU Fall 2020

Digital Photography

6016 x 4000

GMU Fall 2020

Colored pencil, marker, and gel pen

18” x 24”

Perspective exercise that I chose to theme around the signature line from Hamlet, representing the nobility and glory of mankind as a hand reaching for the stars while the divine eye gazes down upon it.

GMU Spring 2020

Brush pen

18” x 24”

NVCC - Fall 2018

Adobe Illustrator

These images were done as part of a graphic design exercise where I was asked to create a fictional brand/product and design packaging for it. I designed a fold-able confectionery box with a coordinating gift tag. I also made a label that could be placed on the back of assortment boxes to list the various flavors, or included with purchases to advertise available varieties.

Printed on matte cardstock, box measures approximately 2 5/8” wide and 1 3/8” tall when constructed.

NVCC - Fall 2018

Adobe Illustrator

This piece was done as part of an exercise in color-picking from images and using gradient mesh. I chose a photo of a jellyfish as my source image and made the bell using only gradient mesh. The center of the oral arms was also done with gradient mesh, and the rest of the cluster was made with numerous small, translucent gradient shapes.

NVCC - Fall 2018

Graphite, Adobe Illustrator

This series was made for a multi-part assignment where I had to trace an image with the pen tool and then color it in two different schemes. The original sketch was a previous study of female volleyball player Shiho Yoshimura. The sketch was traced over, and the shapes and lines became the basis for the two colored versions.

Spring 2014

Digital Photography

6016 x 4000

Spring 2014

Digital Photography

6016 x 4000

Spring 2014

Digital Photography

6016 x 4000