Work.
I spread myself thick like a Renaissance woman should. Below you will find an array of design and writing pieces that begin to show the endless fascination I have for almost everything.
Design
- Empowering urban youth Providing constructive environments for girls' personal growth (poster & video)
- The future of reading "You and Me" (video)
- Information visualization Benfry.com (poster)
- Kids these days The sexual life of the U.S. teen by age (ages 15-18) (book)
- Nüs News service that leverages social connections to deliver personalized news (concept)
- Poetry book design "Skating with Heather Grace" by Thomas Lynch (book cover & jacket)
- Self-portrait "One hundred forty characters" (video)
- Texas never told her Documenting personal narratives of Texas women's sexual health (concept)
Self-portrait:
"One hundred forty characters"
I will easily tell you who I am, but ask me to do a project on it and it will spur an existential crisis.
In desperation to make a self-portrait, I turned to one of the only day-to-day records I've had long-term: my Twitter feed. Originally I sought it as a reference point for my behaviors, but after reading years worth of crazy blurbs, I realized that's who I am: years worth of crazy blurbs. Also, one of my tweets had just been published in the London Times and my relationship with Twitter escalated into something a little more meaningful...
My self-portrait is in video format not only to show hierarchy of significance and time, but also to enhance the metaphor of core tag clouds "raining" on corresponding tweets.
Process
Additional resources
- Tools used:
- Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Adobe After Effects CS4
- Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Web sites are my fave. I follow a routine of including the client in the brainstorming and ideating process (no surprises). Ask me more about my Web design process, because I love to talking about it.
Journalism
"National Examiner: Web Examiner"June 2008 - present
"ABCNews.com"June 2008 - June 2009