Research

Website Strategy and Design for Finished Art, Inc.

Objec­tive Fin­ished Art was con­sid­er­ing cre­at­ing a blog, but the com­pa­ny was not sure whether it was worth the effort or how the blog would actu­al­ly work. Dur­ing some free time, I decid­ed to sit down and think about whether a blog could be a good idea for the com­pa­ny and what ben­e­fits and chal­lenges […]

Ethnographic Study of Art Supply Buying Habits

Overview The pur­pose of this study was to exam­ine the habits of dorm-dwelling stu­dents in search of art/design sup­plies in order to under­stand how impor­tant loca­tion is in rela­tion to price and oth­er con­trib­u­tors to the idea of val­ue. We explored oppor­tu­ni­ties that one store in Savan­nah may have in over­com­ing the dis­ad­van­tage of prox­im­i­ty […]

Recycling in Savannah

How to Moti­vate Peo­ple to Cre­ate Bet­ter Recy­cling Habits through Aware­ness, Edu­ca­tion and Con­ve­nience Overview For my final project in the Design Man­age­ment pro­gram at SCAD, I want­ed to take a clos­er look at recy­cling in Savan­nah, GA. The pur­pose of my study was to reveal a bet­ter way to encour­age and enable recy­cling for […]

Building a New Brand

Building a New Brand

Set­ting the Foun­da­tion With my back­ground in Graph­ic Design, I have designed visu­al iden­ti­ties for exist­ing brands, but I’ve nev­er had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op the frame­work for a new brand from the ground up. At SCAD, I was able to work with five oth­er stu­dents from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines in a spon­sored col­lab­o­ra­tive design class […]

Texting While Driving Infographics

Idea Visu­al­iza­tion The first phase of this research project involved col­lect­ing var­i­ous sta­tis­tics relat­ed to tex­ting while dri­ving. After rec­og­niz­ing pat­terns in the data, our team clas­si­fied the infor­ma­tion into seman­ti­cal­ly appro­pri­ate visu­al mod­els that show rela­tion­ships with mul­ti­vari­ate data. These visu­al mod­els were pre­sent­ed in a poster.

Working Title Design Launch

Knowledge Sharing Network

Cur­rent­ly, Design Man­age­ment is rep­re­sent­ed so incon­sis­tent­ly that there is both an oppor­tu­ni­ty and a need for Design Man­agers to define our field and chart a course for the pro­fes­sion. The devel­op­ment of a cen­tral net­work enti­ty is the per­fect way to allow Design Man­agers to share their knowl­edge, projects and expe­ri­ences. This forum of […]

What’s Under the Kitchen Sink?

Overview In the twen­­ty-first cen­tury, orga­nized liv­ing spaces are more preva­lent than ever. Orga­ni­za­tional sys­tems have been designed and redesigned in an attempt to make spaces more accom­mo­dat­ing. The scope for this project was to step back and ana­lyze why cur­rent sys­tems are not work­ing to their full poten­tial and cre­ate a solu­tion that would […]

The Human Factor: Design Thinking

This intro­duc­to­ry class helped me under­stand the phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al human fac­tors that need to be con­sid­ered with every design project — from ergonom­ics and usabil­i­ty to light­ing and col­or. Com­ing from a graph­ic design back­ground, the phys­i­cal fac­tors were espe­cial­ly new to me. I learned how to find and use anthro­po­met­ric data as well […]

EcoLabs

While research­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty graph­ics for my M.A. Final Project, I came across Eco­Labs and the con­cept of eco-lit­er­a­­cy. Eco­Labs is a not for prof­it net­work of design­ers and visu­al artists who cre­ate mate­ri­als, projects and pro­grams that sup­port eco­log­i­cal lit­er­a­cy. The aim of the orga­ni­za­tion is to nur­ture whole sys­tems think­ing, fos­ter eco­log­i­cal lit­er­a­cy, and […]