I HAIGHT ART

I Haight Art was a collaborative project between myself and three other designers: Maria Alvarez, Zhen Tan and Silvia Cassone.

This project was a documentation of the art seen all around the Upper Haight. Creativity is everywhere from the murals, shop galleries, graffiti and the eclectic store fronts and window displays. The book was perfect bound by yours truly. My other responsibilities included art direction, layout and customizing the blog.

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Information Design

I had the awesome opportunity to take Information Design (DAI 523) with Prof. Trogu. If you’re a DAI student, I highly recommend this class. It’s a great introduction to info design. We learned how to gather information (through researching and web scraping), organize the data and the various forms of visualizations. If you’re new to this area of design, check out the site Many Eyes to to get your feet a little wet. Also, if you want to see some really rad examples of info design, check out Good Magazine, Information is Beautiful, and Info Aesthetics.

As you might have remembered, I posted a concept map I did in the beginning of the semester. More has been done since then:

This was the final assignment, which was my favorite (and scale wise, the biggest) project of the entire semester. Aside from the fact that we finally got to design information, I liked the fact that it entailed designing a large poster (34 x 44 in) that can be folded down to 8.5 x 11. I really would have loved to have been able to design more large scale pieces at SF State. Yes it’s a little costly, but I enjoyed (and want more of) the challenge of designing at a larger scale.
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DAI 505: Senior Research & Development

The NOPA Renter’s Resource Guide to Gardening & Landscaping is the result of hours of researching, surveying and interviewing for my senior research and development class. In addition to the final designs, I also wrote all the copy in the booklet and turned in a huge report.

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Small Stuff

It’s been a long while since my last post, but now that the semester is over there are no more excuses! So the following are some small designs I’ve done over the past year or so.

52 Objections is the first draft for a deck of flash cards designed for my current job. Since the backside with the information will need some tweeking, I’m hesitant to post it at the moment. Overall, the bosses and agents at work were happy with what I have designed so far, which of course makes me happy and validated. Hopefully, with more minor changes (to the info side), the cards will be printed professionally.

The Big Book of Savings is coupon book full of creative ideas. The concept of this project was to create a motivational and inspirational idea book to help those who are suffering from a major creative block. The book was created for a close graphic design friend who was having trouble being creative outside of the office. Like the little coupons kids would make for mothers day or for lovers who buy “love coupons”, this follows the same idea. So hopefully whenever she encounters a day of boredom or a creative block, she’ll take a look at the booklet and find something creative to do…

Blue Bike Buttons Gift Certificate. Well, it’s exactly what it is, a gift certificate design for my little button company side project called Blue Bike Buttons. I gave this to a musician friend, but he never cashed it in. I mean come on, 100 free buttons? Who could refuse?