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Annoying was for a typography class and the project was to explain your trip from home to school with type. Being a Steelers fan, this is my design for my walk to school living in Ohio. The design has the story upside down so the viewer will have to turn their head to read it, which can be annoying. This is done to get the viewer to understand and connect to how I feel.

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This project was a collaborative effort and it started with local high school students entering poems in a competition. The students work with the Art in TARTA program and then the program will select the top poems. The poems are then used as inspiration by selected BGSU Graphic Design students to create bus wraps. I was selected to participate and also had a design selected.

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Rational

Each year the program has a different theme and this year it was Restore Planet Earth: Air. “New green world can begin,” is a line from the poem "Untitled" that I selected and it is the main source inspiration for the bus design. The design represents the new green world beginning with the transformation of the white leaves to the green. The vines are a timeline, reaching for the goal at the end of the bus: to “Restore Planet Earth.”

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Connections is a book I created that involved a story from each of my 16 classmates and one from me. All stories were created under the “This I Believe” theme where we wrote about what we believe in. Each story was passed around to every member of the class therefore everyone had everyone's story. Doing this, we were creating stronger relationships. Then I noticed that in each story, the author has some form of a relationship; with a friend, family member, dog, stranger or god. Throughout the process of creating this book there are relationships and with those relationships there are connections.

Connections are the foundation of this book. There are three sections that connect the overall book. Within each of these sections are the stories and an icon that relate to the section’s theme. Then each story is connected to the next story by some kind of thread. Hopefully this makes for a fun read and will have you wanting to know what the next story will be about.

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Harmony was created for Evoke's Unity exhibition. The artwork represents the different and unique artists that are at Evoke and how they work together in harmony. Harmony was featured in an online/print campaign for Wacom's new Intuos4 tablet.

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Wacom

Click the image to go to the launch page for the Intuos4 tablet.

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Home Improvement was created for PSDTuts.com. I was asked to create a tutorial that goes over my style of surreal digital art. I wanted to create a tutorial that went over the rules of third and useful tips in Photoshop.

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PSDTuts

Click the image to go to the tutorial page

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A method based project with inspiration taken from the movie Run Lola Run. The movie has three parts, a theme of life and death and multiple scenes of broken glass. I based this project around the theme of life and death and used glass a metaphor to represent it.

This project showcases the life and death of glass that I used, through a quote by Isaac Asimov.

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

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Make Your Case is a theme I created for the 2010 Portfolio Review Day at BGSU. The event is sponsored by BGSUGD and AIGA Toledo. You can see more details here about the event (www.toledo.aiga.com).

At the review, students lay out their work while a reviewer looks over it. My theme, Make Your Case, is a call to action. Inviting students to come to the review and get their portfolio case ready. It is also meant to act as statement that the students should defend their work and stand out at the event, while their work lies out and the reviewers look at it.

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Event

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During the summer of '08 I had an internship at Midnet Media (www.midnetmedia.com) in Minster, Ohio. Below are a couple of web design projects I created and helped collaborate on while I was there.

OSU Marion Branch

Tool Guys

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This project was for typography class where I created a Call for Entries poster for Print Magazine.

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Reach and BreakThrough are older pieces of mine that I created for Evoke. Reach was created for Evoke's two year anniversary and celebrates Evoke reaching new heights as an online art collective.

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BreakThrough

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Roché Wine is fictional wine company based off my last name and passion for hand drawn design. This was for a project in my packaging class where we had to create four labels (type, symbol, graphic designer and time period) to go on a glass bottle and then put a theme into that design that relates to us. I chose to base my design of hand drawn design. I used Si Scott as my designer and Art Nouveau as my time period. Both are very hand driven and influence me greatly.

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Above photo from left to right: Time Period, Type, Symbol and Graphic Designer.

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