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Women's Design Coalition (WDC) - Website and Journal

The Womens Design Coalition (WDC) was my Senior Degree Project at the Rhode Island School of Design. For this project I was awarded the Tomas Gonda Award for Excellence in Graphic Design.

Both myself and a design partner (Diana Oh) were given the opportunity to spend several months working on a large scale design project. After countless hours of research we settled on the topic of women in the field of graphic design. We were curious if gender inequality was still a major issue in graphic design as it once had been.

We decided to design a website and publish a journal, the WDC (or Women's Design Coalition) Journal. It featured interviews that we had conducted with well known graphic designers. Our questionnaire included inquires about gender inequality, motherhood, and design in general. Some of our featured designers include Ellen Lupton, Zuzana Licko and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Along with these interviews we included images of each designer's work. The website (working prototype, not currently live) features a section that allows the user to browse through designer profiles. These profiles contain a biography about each designer, a gallery of the designer’s work, relative links, and a link to our exclusive interview with the designer. The site also boasts a news section, a section with resources and links for student designers, and a forum where visitors can converse with each other.

RISD Museum Interactive Exhibit and Website Proposal

This hypothetical exhibition, entitled Postmortem c.250 BC, will give the visitor the opportunity to interact with death and the afterlife as the ancient Egyptians knew it. Using the space currently inhabited by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s ancient art collection this exhibit will span five different room and will feature all of the Egyptian Funerary items in the RISD Museum’s collection.

Each room has a theme, the first being the funerary artifact room. This room houses the bulk of the collection. Visitors can use the touch screens located in front of each object to look up more information on the item. They can zoom up on the object and in the case of some smaller display cases even rotate the items.

Visitors enter the mummification room next. In this darker space projections of hieroglyphics from the Book of the Dead cover the black walls. When visitors wave their hands in front of the text it transforms to an English translation of the glyphs. Inside this room RISD’s mummy, Nesmin, is in a multi-layered case giving visitors a better view of his coffin and his wrappings. The touch screens that surround the mummy can be used to look up information about this mummy, other mummies in Egypt and the mummification process. Each screen controls a small camera inside the case allowing users to zoom up and pan around the mummy to observe it in great detail. The large touch sensitive screen at the back of the room displays CAT scans of the mummy that visitors can interact with.

Following the mummification room is the animation hall in which larger than life animated images from the Egyptian Book of the Dead are projected.

The fourth room is titled Postmortem c.2009 and allows visitors to compare the death beliefs and practices of various cultures of today with those of ancient Egypt. This room mimics the mummification room though here obituaries are projected onto the walls, a skeleton and modern day coffin are presented in the display case, and information about modern death practices is available on the touch screen devices that surrounds the case. The large screen at the back of the room can be used to view the skeleton in great detail.

The final room is a the research and study room. Here visitors can sit down and rest on Egyptian style seating while they access information about ancient Egypt on the screens that line each wall or they can sit down by the table a flip through a relevant book.

There would be a companion website to this exhibition as well. Logging on to RISD’s website would allow you to access the exhibit’s website. This website would be set up like a game in which visitors use their arrow keys to move around a virtual version of the exhibit. Users can click on objects and people inside of the virtual space to access information about the exhibit and the items within it.

This exhibit model was built entirely in Google Sketchup.

Home Internet Device Design and Development

At Tap N Tap I developed and designed multiple applications for their home internet device (similar to Apple's iPad) including the clock application featured in these images. I also designed various icons to be used on this device. Unfortunately due to a confidentiality agreement I am unable to disclose much information about what I had worked on.

While working a this company I was able to obtain a better understanding and hone my skills in user experience and user interface design.

Package Design

Packing Intentions Box

This box was developed to briefly touch upon the different intentions behind the idea of packaging products (whether they be to the consumer’s benefit or the manufacturer’s). On one side I argue that packaging serves to protect products for the consumer. On the other I argue that packaging can be used as a tool to deceive the consumer into believing that the product is more desirable than it really is.

Alpo® Dog Food Can Labels

Redesign of Alpo’s “Chop House Originals” line of canned dog food. Design features a more refined aesthetic and an easy to follow color system to identify each flavor.

Alpo and Alpo Chophouse Originals are registered trademarks of the Nestle Purina Petcare company.

Ancient Egyptian Figurine Packaging

This packaging was designed for Relic, a fictional company that manufactures and distrubutes Egyptian diety figurines through museum giftshops and internet boutiques. The package design mimics an Egyptian cartouche (a shape that was used to designate the names of Egyptian royalty). This particular box features Anubis, god of the ancient Egyptian underworld.

Airhogs® Havoc Heli Packaging

For this remote control helicopter packaging redesign the aesthetic was refined and references the design on the toy itself in order to tie the two to each other (something the original package design was lacking). The redesign requires less physcial material than the originalthus making it more environmentally friendly. br />
Airhogs and Airhogs Havoc Heli are registered trademarks of the Spin Master company.

Print Design

What Is Good Design? Brochure

Alice Rawsthorn’s essay “What is Good Design?” is worked into this double-sided brochure that can be conveniently folded up and distributed through the mail.

Sans Comics, A Comic Book Map

This comic book is actually a map that utilizes photographs the haven been heavily stylized in editing to visually guide the reader from the campus of the Rhode Island School of Design to the nearest comic book store (Newbury Comics).

Libraries of Providence Brochure

A brochure of useful information about the seven major libraries in Providence. Content includes library hours, location, specialties, brief histories of the establishments, and more.

Poster Designs

Bicycle Poster - An typographic experiment incorporating an object into the letters of the object’s name.

E.V. Day Poster - Poster promoting a hypothetical museum exhibition featuring the suspended works of
artist E.V. Day.

Chicago Go Go - A typopraphic exploration about transportation in Chicago.

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