G-STAR RAW FOR THE OCEAN REBRAND PROJECT


How can I pair a passion of fashion sustainability with a design related problem?
G-Star Raw for the Ocean is a preexisting brand that was created by Pharrell Williams and used recycled plastic to create denim. I decided to take inspiration from this successful artist and creative director to recreate the playful collection that came to be in 2014 and cater it towards a high fashion audience.

2026, G-Star Raw for the Ocean Rebrand Project, Richmond, VA





LETTERFORM DECONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP


How can I deconstruct letterforms to create an animation?
This workshop was done during my time in Florence, Italy where I had many opportunities to have in depth relationships with typography and the letterforms that I was using. In this exercise, we were instructed to create an animation using a piece of paper with a letter and physically deconstruct it to create an animation.

2025, Letterform Deconstruction Workshop, Florence, Italy





TWOFOLD: COMING TOGETHER AND FALLING APART


How long can a writers piece hold true? Are humans truly that simple?
This book is based on a reading from a Greek philosopher who argued that there is never a point in time where things will stay together or apart. In fact, they are always in perpetual motion. It leads me to believe that such ancient thought holds just as much relevance that it did before as it does today. Our lives are in perpetual motion and I used my own personal collection of photos to fit the lines in the poem.

2026, Twofold: Coming Together and Falling Apart Project, Richmond, VA





PABLO PICASSO BRANDING PROJECT


How can I represent such an influential artist through a logo?
For this project, I was prompted to create a logo for Pablo Picasso, famed and honored artist. I decided to incorporate aspects of his artistic style into his logo to create a recognizable and somewhat abnormal logo.

2025, Pablo Picasso Branding Project, Florence, IT





LO SCHERMO DELL’ARTE BRANDING PROJECT


What is a creative and innovative  way to represent this film festival
The Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival is a film festival that takes place in Florence, Italy. With this rebrand project, I decided to create a brand identity that correlated with the concept of a zoetrope. Moving picture goes by in a flash and each frame represents a different film. 

2025, Leave Behind Project, Richmond, VA





DESIGN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SCREENPRINT ANALYSIS


How can I represent myself as a designer?
The most interesting aspect of this project was thinking of a way to capture how I perceive myself and how I want others to perceive me as a person and an artist. I landed on creating a “menuesquee” style, which works well for my personality- reserved on the outside, but the inside of the menu reveals a more maximalist style of design, which I feel is reflective of what it is like to get to know me as a person and an artist. 

My leave behind is acting as a small menu with the velum meant to replicate the half slips or inserts that are often present in menus.  Of course my resume mimics the format of a menu, but still stylized and professional. The receipt would be used as a way to close out the meeting or interview, but still tie in with the theme of work that I created.

2025, Leave Behind Project, Richmond, VA





DESIGN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SCREENPRINT ANALYSIS


How can design and social movements throughout history be conveyed through screenprinted media?
With a semesters worth of knowledge about social movements throughout history and how design has impacted them, my partner Lydia Behler and I decided to talk about the integration that must happen between technology and the people that use it- and more importantly the people that don’t. The quote, “The thing of it is, we must live with the living” comes from an excerpt from the book The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. It speaks to the significance of how technology progresses so quickly, but an important thought to remember is that we must live with the people that are still here, instead of looking everforward to a population that doesn’t even exist yet. It is a reminder to stay true to the physical (hense the portrayal of the untouched photograph of a flower) while honoring the digital (hense the pixelated representation of a flower).

2025, Design and Social Movements Screenprint Analysis, Florence, ITA





500 PAGE BOOK


What could I possibly make 500 pages worth of?
Prompted to create a 500 page book based off of personal concept, I decided to create a “contemporary hope chest”. A hope chest was originally used for women and was a physical chest where they would store items that they would use in wedlock (ex. plates, cuttlery, linens, etc). I thought that an interesting spin and a more contemporary take would revolve around the physical items that families may want to pass on to future generations, whether it be necessary items and information or it just be something worth knowing. I categorized the sections into “What you might actually need/want” and “I just want you to see this” and went from there collecting ephemera from my own family and creating a book for myself and a guide for others that want to preserve a piece of their heritage in a compact way.

2025, 500 Page Book, Richmond, VA




Game Board Section


GIOCO DELL’OCA/ CITY MAP


Wanna know how I get to class in Florence?
Prompted to create a game board that must contrast with a design of an assigned partner, I decided to create a board based on the graffiti I see everyday in Florence. In touristic areas, there are many UNESCO sites of art that have been around for centuries, but what about current art? Graffiti is all around Florence and speaks to the emerging Italian culture today. 

2025, Graffiti Board Game, Florence, ITA




Icons- Black on White
Icons- White on Black
Icons- Pink

FROM CONCEPT TO ICON: NATURE, CITY, PEOPLE


What better way to represent these three concepts than from an aerial view?
In creating a project where something so complex must become so simple, I struggled to create something I felt captured the essense of these three concepts of nature, city, and people. That was until I realized that they are all ideas that can be represented on a map... The contour lines of the mountains in nature, the grid lines of the city, and the population bubbles for people.

2025, Concept Icons, Florence, ITA