Creative Encounters ::: Exploring the Art of “Thinking Through Making”
Print/Moving poster
Creative scholarship
Collage collaboration
In Fall 2023, I teamed up with Associate Professor Courtney Windham to create a series of promotional materials for a conference panel session, ‘Creative Encounters: Exploring the Art of “Thinking Through Making”,’ for the MACAA Satellite Virtual Conference hosted by Auburn University on March 21-23, 2024.
Motion design
A version of the poster series was animated and posted to multiple platforms. The promotional campaign was highly successful, garnering submissions from diverse regions of the U.S.. The campaign culminated in selecting 8 outstanding proposals from a pool of 12 proposals. The panel will feature two engaging sessions dedicated to exploring the unique creative encounters experienced by fellow designers, educators, and students.
design process/approach
We define the panel’s theme—'creative encounters'—as a pivotal moment in design where unexpected connections are made, often in overlooked situations. This process liberates designers from conventional thinking, fostering the pursuit of new insights and knowledge. These encounters can challenge existing perceptions with surprising connections, yet they also spark intuitive leaps, serendipitous discoveries, and reflective moments, paving the way for transforming abstract ideas into tangible creations. To illustrate this concept, we joined our image-making processes in two experimental sessions. In the first session, I presented photographic remnants from past explorations︎︎︎—while Courtney contributed various typographic sources and custom AI-generated images.
In the following session, I created and printed several 11x17in layouts in order to explore different arrangements of the poster information. These layouts helped us to come up with creative ideas for placing our cutouts, while also responding to the typographic landscape. Subsequently, we digitally enhanced four collaged posters.
Tools ::: Circle and square punch set, xacto knife, glue sticks.
Font in use ::: News Gothic MT Std.
Tools ::: Circle and square punch set, xacto knife, glue sticks.
Font in use ::: News Gothic MT Std.
Auburn University: 2023 Graphic Design Juried Student Show. Animated Poster/Social Media Announcement
Augmented Reality animated Poster
Motion design
Creative scholarship
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2023— 1st edition of the United States International Poster Biennial 2023. Category: Animated Poster, Professional.
The Graphic Design Juried Student Show is an opportunity for students at all levels of Auburn’s design program to submit their best work for exhibition. While the faculty jury works on the exhibition, fourteen awards are juried by a guest industry leader.
The poster was strategically designed in a size ratio for social media purposes, resonating with a wide range of people within the university. The poster achieved impressive results, attracting design students to submit their work and welcoming parents, alums, and curious guests to the opening reception.
The app for augmented reality ArtiVive allowed audiences to activate the animation by pointing their camera phone at a printed poster. The animation lasts 42 seconds with an exciting music piece. To create a sense of depth, six after-effects cameras navigate specific places on the poster, focusing and revealing the gridlines as these animate in unison with typography and subtle camera movements.
Font in use ::: Helvetica Neue.
The poster was strategically designed in a size ratio for social media purposes, resonating with a wide range of people within the university. The poster achieved impressive results, attracting design students to submit their work and welcoming parents, alums, and curious guests to the opening reception.
The app for augmented reality ArtiVive allowed audiences to activate the animation by pointing their camera phone at a printed poster. The animation lasts 42 seconds with an exciting music piece. To create a sense of depth, six after-effects cameras navigate specific places on the poster, focusing and revealing the gridlines as these animate in unison with typography and subtle camera movements.
Font in use ::: Helvetica Neue.
Auburn University | Showcase 2023: Layered Landscape
Print/Moving poster
Creative scholarship
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2022— Honorable Mention. Category: 33b. Integrated - Campaign. UCDA Design Awards.
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2022—GDUSA Inhouse Design Awards. National.
Animation triggered with the ArtiVive app.
tv graphics/announcement
Augmented Reality
animated Poster
Augmented Reality
animated Poster
The Auburn University showcase is an exhibition of faculty and student creative scholarship, featuring individual, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work in the fields of arts, design, performing arts, and other areas of creative research and scholarship.
Font in use ::: Akzidenz Grotesk.
Font in use ::: Akzidenz Grotesk.
Auburn University | Photo Communications Summer 2022 Course Poster
Augmented Reality
animated Poster
Motion design
Creative scholarship
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2024— Creative Quarterly 75. Runner-up.
2022— Excellence Award. Category: 5c. Recruitment. Part of UCDA’s Design Awards Show for 2022 & permanent design collection archives.
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2022—GDUSA Inhouse Design Awards. National.
Animation triggered with the ArtiVive app.
Fonts in use ::: Helvetica Neue and Didot.
Fonts in use ::: Helvetica Neue and Didot.
Eastern New Mexico University | Logo Animation
Motion Design
Logo animation concept for ENMU’s Graphic Design & Visual Arts recruitment videos.