INTRODUCTION

DESIGN

As a design major and architecture minor, I have worked on many different projects. Therefore my portfolio is very diverse. As a University of Washington design student, I have completed many design classes that focused on many different aspects of design. In my portfolio, I showcase book covers I completed for the book, "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino, a cook book recipe layout, and a poster I created for a national park. These projects all differ from one another but showcase my collegiate design experience. 

I am interested in Design because it is omnipresent. Design is incorporated into everything around us - from billboards, to menu layouts, to how the keys are set up within a computer. I like design because you can create something that is more functional, easy to read, and much more.

ARCHITECTURE

Through my collegiate experience, I majored in Design Studies and minored in Architecture. I have always been very passionate about architecture and hope I can work in an architectural office after I graduate. I have taken many architectural classes, which have given me an insight to what if would be like to be an architect. Two classes, Architecture 210 and 211, were very intensive but made me think in many different ways to solve architectural problems. While solving these problems, I also used my background in design to create a project that was successful. 

I have been interested in architecture since I was in 3rd grade. It has always been a passion of mine and I would love to be able to fulfill my long-time dream of becoming an architect. These projects exemplify my progress within architectural drawings and layouts.

NATIONAL PARK POSTER

I completed this project in Fall 2010. Our assignment was to create a poster for a National Park of our choice. This poster was created to draw people to want to goto the National Park.

I chose Arches National Park located in Utah. This park is very dry and includes many mountain and rock formations. It is world-famous for its delicate arch, and it preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches. The irregular features of this park has created a landscape of contrasting colors, textures, and landforms that is unlike any other area in the world. It lies above an underground evaporite layer, or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, balanced rocks, spires, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths found in the area.

My design process for this project began with immense research on Arches National Park and then continued into thinking about how to depict this certain park. I wanted to focus on warm colors and to depict the popular animals that live there. The desert bighorn sheep is a popular animal in Arches National Park, so I included this idea of animals into my poster. 

COOK BOOK RECIPE

In the typography class I took in 2009, one of our assignments was to create a cook book recipe. We could choose any recipe we wanted and create a layout for it. This was one of my favorite projects in this class because we had the freedom to create any layout style was saw fit.

My design process for this project focused on trying new layouts and incorporating new ideas. I played around with many different ideas, some of which were successful, and others that were not. After spending much time on this project, I created a few different layouts that depicted the cook book recipe as I saw fit. A few of these examples are depicted below.

BOOK COVER DESIGNS

This project was an assignment in a design class which taught us how to visualize concepts. The class was split into three different groups with a focus on three different books. Throughout the course, we read the book and then created 24 different book covers for the book. We drew from ideas in the book, visuals the book described and much more.

I enjoyed thinking abut how to visualize certain ideas and how to make original book covers. I found myself taking my camera with me wherever I went just incase I saw an item or place that would benefit my project. Below are a few examples of my favorite book covers I created.