Portfolio
Advertising
- Enter to Win
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Graphic Designer
- Type: Print
- Mission/Goal: Encouraging students to "enter to win" with the help of displaying clean product images and choosing interesting snippets of information about each product.
- Utilized: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4
- President's Weekend Hours
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Graphic Designer
- Type: Print
- Mission/Goal: Stylishly reminding customers about the upcoming holiday and informing them that the store will be closed.
- Utilized: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 (image manipulation + enhancement)
- Extended Hours
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Graphic Designer
- Type: Print
- Mission/Goal: Orchestrating topic-related imagery in combintation with bold, eye-catching typography. Illustrations not drawn by myself, only modified and positioned.
- Utilized: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4
- Class Rings
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Graphic Designer
- Type: Print
- Mission/Goal: Advertising 2009 class rings, adding important and pertinent information about ways to see and purchase them.
- Utilized: Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 (image manipulation + enhancement)
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Photography
- UCD Vet Med Hat with Paw Print
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Photographer
- Mission/Goal: Photographing the product in various angles for website display.
- Utilized: Digital SLR Camera, Photoshop CS4
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- UCD Vet Med Hat with Paw Print
- Client: University of California, Davis
- Role: Photographer
- Mission/Goal: Photographing the products in various angles for website display.
- Utilized: Digital SLR Camera, Photoshop CS4
- Launch
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Web Design/Development
- Renaissance Community Church
- Client: Renaissance Community Church
- Role: Web Designer / Developer
- Mission/Goal: Visual redesign creating a website interface that not only highlighted RCC's existing logo, but interpreted their logo aesthetic and reflected some of their organization's photographs throughout the site.
- Utilized: CSS, XHTML Strict, Photoshop CS4
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- EKaino Fashions
- Client: Kaino Hopper
- Role: Web Designer / Developer
- Mission/Goal: Visual redesign choosing to fully rely on and utilize her own existing and very inspiring photographs. Manipulated and enhanced photographs to rebuild and establish her identity as a truly unique fashion designer.
- Utilized: CSS, XHTML, Photoshop CS4
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- Site Redesign
- Done @: University of California, Davis
- Role: Web Designer / Developer
- Mission/Goal: Redesigned an existing website randomly picked by peer or instructor. Relying on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design with specific attention to the layout and typography and ability to maintain a design style across several pages.
- Utilized: CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
- Original site: http://www.hoppy.com
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- Educational Website
- Done @: University of California, Davis
- Role: Web Designer / Developer
- Mission/Goal: Teaching a complex topic using the website format. Created a design that compells the viewer to "click on" and learn more about the topic.
- Utilized: CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
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- Informational Website
- Done @: University of California, Davis
- Role: Web Designer / Developer
- Mission/Goal: Research a sustainabiliy idea and present it to audience in the web format, exercising web design techniques such as Cascading Style Sheets to style the site. Paid specific attention to the layout making sure it's visually rich and typographically communicates clearly with consideration to usability.
- Utilized: CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
- Launch
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School: "Best Of" + Personal Favorites
- Course Process Manual
- Class: Pattern, Form, Surface
- Professor: Susan Verba
- Project: Course Process Manual
- Specifications: 32" x 18"
- Utilized: Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
- Description: I designed this huge poster that gets folded into what becomes a 4" x 6" book, where the text below become pages that eventually lead to the more "visual" and illustrated process. This project was supposed to capture and document the entire quarter-long processes I went through to get to my final design solutions. In this class, the processes (design thinking, explorations, unexpected discoveries) was just as or more important as the final products. Unexpected treat!
- 9th Annual Davis Film Festival Opening Sequence
- Class: VisComm: Type in Motion
- Professor: Glenda Drew
- Utilized: AfterEffects CS3, Photoshop CS3
- Description: Opening sequence made as a final project for my Type Motion class. Normally a lover of creating static design, this, among other major projects for the class were more challenging for me. In the end, it was very rewarding work because I never knew I could design something dynamic and technically challenging to create (for someone learning a new program for the first time).
- Special Recognitions:
- Out of many amazing final projects, this project was selected to serve as opening sequence representing the 9th Annual Davis Film Festival hosted at Davis Varisty Theatre
- Featured at UC Davis Spotlight
- Air Show Event Poster
- Class: Graphic Design Production
- Professor: Sara Raffo
- Project: Event Poster, Print
- Specifications: 24" x 36"
- Client: Travis Air Museum
- Role: Graphic Designer
- Utilized: Illustrator CS4
- Photo Montage
- Class: Digital Imaging
- Professor: Kathryn Sylva
- Project: Photo Montage
- Utilized: Photoshop CS3, extensive graphic manipulation
- Description: Blended 5 different photographs taken by myself to create one story-telling, mystical and surreal image. For fun: You are seeing Portland, Oregon clouds, Crocker Art Museum, my calico cat Mugsy, and a huge bird from Point Reyes.
- Special Recognitions:
- Displayed at UC Davis Walker Hall
- Selected by UC Davis Design Faculty for the Design by Design 2008 Exhibition
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Experimental / Just For Fun
- Photography: Brad
- Role: Photographer
- Utilized: Olympus Camera, Photoshop CS2
- Photography: Melody
- Role: Photographer
- Utilized: Olympus Camera, Photoshop CS2
- Comments: Created by blending in 4 different images. Surrealism, I enjoy the most!
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School Daze
Selected Classwork
- VisCom: Message Campaign, 2009
- Pattern, Form, Surface, 2009
- VisComm: Type in Motion, 2009
- Enviornmental Graphics, 2008
- Internet and Interactive Design, 2008 (External Site)
- Graphic Design Production, 2008
- Letterforms and Type, 2008
- Digital Imaging, 2008
- Photography for Designers, 2007
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Blast from the Past
- coroflot.com/monique: Early works, worthy look. Where it all began.
early web design, foundational art classwork, photography explorations, ...
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