University of Illinois at Chicago

Univers Typeface Poster

This poster project was made as an undergrad at UIC, School of Art & Design as an undergrad. This course taught me a lot about the graphic design principles and typography. The Univers typeface was designed by the typographer, Adrian Frutiger. A quote I want to highlight from Adrian Frutiger reads, “From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.”

Invisible Cities Poster, UIC Graphic Design Studies

Invisible Cities, Book and Poster

These projects were made as an undergrad at UIC, School of Art & Design (now School of Design). For this graphic design course I wrote an essay on the Italo Calvino book, “Invisible Cities” which was then turned into a book. Another project in the class was to make paper sculptures as a way to experiment with composition in a three dimensional space. I used one of the paper sculptures in a mock promotional poster design. I tried to reflect the themes described in “Invisible Cities” with an emphasis on space, visual patterns, repetition of shapes, and colors.

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities, Essay Book

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design, UIC Graphic Design Studies 1 — Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design 1

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design, UIC Graphic Design Studies 2 — Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design 2

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design, UIC Graphic Design Studies 3 — Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Studies 3

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design, UIC Graphic Design Studies 4 — Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design 4

Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design, UIC Graphic Design Studies 6 — Invisible Cities: Building New Realities Research Book Design 6

Invisible Cities Promotional Poster Design

Paper Sculptures Exercise

Invisible Cities Paper Sculpture, UIC Graphic Design Studies

UIC Innovation Center Website, 2011

In 2011, I was a graphic designer at the University of Illinois (UIC) Innovation Center where I worked on redesigning their website, facility branding, and event poster production design. The Innovation Center focuses on technology development in research projects, in-house prototyping, hosting student events, and educational presentations.