Digital Art & Graphic Design
Mark's 5th Grade Graduation Yearbook Ad
Layout/Publishing Design
Thought Project Living Learning Community Design Identity
Logo & Branding
Dartmouth Winter Carnival 2019 Poster Submission
Poster Design
Dartmouth Winter Carnival 2019 T-Shirt Submission
T-Shirt Design
Real Football for Dummies
Layout/Publishing Design
A page I designed to celebrate my brother's graduation from elementary school. After using Adobe Phtoshop to edit a photograph I had taken myself, I executed my vision in Adobe InDesign. Finally, I worked with the school's yearbook publisher to have the piece printed commercially with the proper specifications.
At the end of spring 2020, the Thought Project Living Learning Community (LLC) was up for renewal of funding and permissions. Facing decreasing membership, lack of direction, and disintegrating identity, the organization was in need of change. As a Thought Project Student Coordinator partly in charge of the Thought Project's leadership committee, I took on the initiative to rebrand and revitalize the organization during a vital time. This effort led to the creation of a new logo and corresponding set of iconography, meant for social media and outreach.
For Dartmouth's 2019 winter carnival, marking the college's 250th year, the annual carnival poster contest was held with the theme "ICE AGE: 250 Years of Winter!" Termed as a "Party in the Paleolithic." I had to give it a shot. My attempt included an image of progression out of the ice age. From the perspective of someone within a frozen cave, the ground begins to thaw as the cave's exit reveals Dartmouth Library's famous bell tower. Remnants of the winter traditions line the cave walls, from frozen bodies depicting the progression of man traversing the snow (see t-shirt design idea below) to cave paintings of the winter carnival's most iconic events, and even previous carnival posters etched into the ice.
Alongside the poster contest, Dartmouth's 2019 winter carnival included a t-shirt design contest. Meant to celebrate the college's 250th year and honot the "ICE AGE: 250 Years of Winter" theme, the shirt would be sold to students throughout the event. Due to t-shirt printing constraints, designs were only allowed to include 2 colors besides black and white. My idea involved a parody of the famous "March of Progress" iconography, but instead of depicting the evolution of man from a chimp on all fours to an upright, bipedal Homo sapien, I opted to show man's attempts at navigating snow (sinking in the knee-high snow at first, then adapting snowshoes, and finally learning to ski).
Some of my earliest memories of graphic design are associated with Microsoft Word—from personalizing templates, to organizing aesthetic page layouts, and even editing images (e.g. cropping images, applying filters, removing backgrounds, adding frames, etc.). I used the program as an alternative for Photoshop and InDesign without knowing it at the time. This project, completed for Ms. Jacques's 7th grade honors English class, represents a proud moment where my skills were appreciated in an unconventional manner. I recall walking into class alongside my best friend and being singled out by my teacher to wait for her outside. My heart raced as I wondered what I was in trouble for—probably for roughhousing with Lawrence in the halls. I was wrong. As Ms. Jacques walked in to get the class situated, she told me to speak with the other English teacher down the hall, who had apparently been filled in on the issue. I was amused to find out that they both thought my submission was way too good to be my own. They had presumed that I had gone one step beyond plagiarizing a book: flat-out scanning it and adding my name on the cover. I had never heard of anything like it. After a while of trying to convince them, pointing out my personal touches inspired by my background, interests, and family, they conceded that "If it's [my] work [I] should be proud. Otherwise, [I] ought to be ashamed." It's still one of my favorite moments from middle school.
