Visual Design + Communication

Banner image created in Illustrator. First sub-banner image created using a combination of Shutterstock images and field research images in Photoshop. Main photo of elephant credits to Professor Milan Tambe. The Project To redesign the banner for the Harvard SEAS Lab, Teamcore, a lab that executed cutting edge Computer Science technology employed by organizations for the greater good. Since the lab's sister organization focused on the humanitarian employment of the technology, the messaging needed to convey that this organization focused on the technical. Design Objectives To cultivate a technical aesthetic in order to differentiate this organization from its sister organization, which employed this lab's technology toward humanitarian efforts. The messaging needed to convey that this lab centralized technological research, driving efforts anchored by pioneering technology at the core of its operations. More on This Design The letters c, o, and r derived from 'core' in the title were highlighted with a techy teal green digitally lit, intentionally omitting the e to maintain the emphasize internalize positioning. Circuits pierce through the 'cor', highlighting the computer science technology as the central focus.

The following include designs for digital displays on large screen display monitors. The images above were used for both print and 16:9 digital display. The poster 'Growing Model Catalysts through the Tailored Design of Shaped Bimetallics Nanoparticles' served as the first in its series of digitally branded seminar poster for the Material Science Seminar Series for display monitors for 2019 and 2020. Subsequent digital announcements during this time utilized this poster as a template for announcements, implementing MIT DMSE images to the far left and imagery provided by visiting faculty to the far right.

A challenge the MIT MRSEC program faced was in the faculty of the Center not acknowledging their use of MRSEC funding, which projected the impression to the National Science Foundation that the grant money was not being spent on MRSEC research. With emailed reminders ineffective, I took the initiative to create an alternative solution by designing a mug with the grant information so that faculty would be reminded every day with their morning coffee. MRSEC branding colors were used as well as the signature arrow extrapolated from the organization's original logo.

A selection of logo and identity work spanning academic, research, and independent projects.

The visual indexes were created for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology course Making Science & Engineering Pictures, an international course taught by MIT Image Specialist Felice Frankel that introduced scientists and engineers to the development of scientific visualization and visual design literacy. I served as the course's Designer and Teaching Assistant, developing visual materials to support its curriculum and instruction. All photography featured in these materials is credited to Felice Frankel.

The following posters were designed for both the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) and the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series. Photo credits to Felice Frankel, MIT faculty, and visiting seminar faculty. Butterfly, hieroglyphic illustrations by Gina Franzetta. Individual poster descriptions soon to come.

Incorporating the graphic images by and images drawn to imitate the style of the Shutterstock artist Sapunkele, this image displays the inside panels to the brochure representing the MIT Working Group for Support Staff, WG. The brochure was co-created with an MIT colleague who held the responsibility of designing the external portion of this brochure.

This design imagined the metropolitan environment for the alien world we imagined for our master's project. the protagonist species inhabited a bioorganic environment within a canyon of the colossal tree planet orbiting a trinary solar system was constructed from sap, gold, and the natural tree environment. The color scheme chosen for this world maintained subdued hues intended to cultivate the morose tone of the dystopian storyline. My contributions to this project included designing and modeling all but the central towers, including the public spaces, the environmental canyon shell, and the residential units climbing the walls of the environment. Textures for the shell environment were created by my cocreator, John Kirk Drogsvold, who rendered many of the cityscape components.