Design Studies Capstone; Visual Culture and Identity

Based on multiple types of research, this project discusses how visual culture reflects and creates meaning and identity. The final product includes a book and playing cards for individuals to reflect on their own visual culture.
  Design and Society; Revealing Assumptions: An Examination of How Meaning is Made from Images

This research-based writing project looked at the assumptions viewers bring to images in order to understand how meaning is conveyed through visual messages.
    Information Architecture; Boldly Beautiful

Boldly Beautiful is a website for a traveling exhibition of the work of book designer Irma Boom. The website reflects Irma Boom’s use of color, scale, and simplicity.
    Marks and Symbols; Pico

This is a symbol for Pico, an independent publisher of high quality art, architecture, and design books.
  Typography; Poetry Poster

This poster illustrates Robert Frost’s poem “The Armful.”