Recyclebank Homepage Redesign
I contributed design ideas to this project through this design draft. The final version incorporates several of the ideas that I proposed.
The Clocks
The assignment was to create a series of three 4x4 in. icons that communicated a story with visual information presented as efficiently as possible. The Agatha Christie murder mystery The Clocks inspired this series.
Class Project
PCGA1000 Graphic/Digital Design Basic Core
Parsons The New School for Design Continuing Education
3D Transcription of Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror
Tasked with creating a 3D transcription of a famous painting, I used both found materials in the art studio and purchased food products to build this, grappling with the questions of body image and femininity that I interpreted from Picasso's masterpiece.
Class Project
VIS 471 Special Topics: Painting Without Canvas
Princeton University
Recyclebank / Green Your School Year
For this contest, I contributed important design ideas and technical feedback throughout every stage of the process. The designer, illustrator and I worked closely to execute the "parallax" scene effect. I was responsible for achieving the complex interactivity of the website. When it launched, the New York Times featured it in its Media section.
Recyclebank / Green Your Seasons
I played a major role in the conceptualization of this campaign and gave design feedback. In addition, I am responsible for building the interactive website. This campaign was featured in AdvertisingAge GoodWorks blog.
Education Equality Project
I redesigned EEP's website at the end of 2010, providing the client with two designs to which they responded with their feedback. After the final design was approved, I also carried out the implementation of the website.
Agency: Blue State Digital
Let's Save Michigan / Poster Contest
I designed and implemented the voting interface of this art poster contest. This contest won the 2011 Bronze Pollie Award in the Internet / State/Local Website / Public Affairs category.
Principal Designer: Alia Hassan
Agency: Blue State Digital
Women in the World Foundation
This website is a recent example of the typical work I do for BSD. I implemented this website in ExpressionEngine using the latest in web standards and technologies. In addition, I often take on the design of interior pages as needed.
Principal Designer: Alia Hassan
Agency: Blue State Digital
The Tarnished Chinese Dream
Causes and Consequences of Chinese Graduate Unemployment in China
Educational expansion over the past decade in China promised to distribute the prestige of higher education and the profits of market reform to millions more Chinese students. However, the graduate labor market has not kept pace with the expansion, leaving at least a million students jobless every year. The dearth of prospects for so many of its brightest young people cuts to the heart of Chinese society, a society rooted in the veneration of education. Therefore, this thesis assesses the causes of growing unemployment among recent college graduates in China and analyzes its social and political consequences. Read It →
Senior Thesis Presented 2011
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Motivating Young Adults to Vote
Examining Social-Psychological Explanations for the Electoral Energy of Generation O
This paper proposes a study to evaluate social-psychological explanations for recent trends in youth political participation and predict the future development of these trends. First, it will examine and describe election trends from 2004 to 2008, the “electoral story of Generation O.” Then, it will organize and present the literature on motives for political participation in an adapted framework. It will analyze the methods of the Obama campaign in inspiring youth voter turnout within this framework. Finally, it will elaborate on the design and methods of a study to obtain empirical evidence in support of previous qualitative observations. Read It →
Final Paper / Research Proposal
PSY 463 Political Psychology
Princeton University
CODeDOC
A Reverse Look at Digital Art
Launched in 2002 by the Whitney Museum of Art, the digital art project CODeDOC encourages viewers to take a “reverse look at ‘software art’ projects by focusing on and comparing the 'back end' of the code that drives the artwork's 'front end'--the result of the code, be it visuals or a more abstract communication process” (Paul). This examination of the “back end” of art is often forgotten or under-appreciated in traditional art while the setup and design of online projects in the interactive digital medium facilitate this “reverse look.” Through this “reverse look,” CODeDOC raises questions about the nature of digital art and art itself while continuing the trend of modern art in evaluating and interpreting the form and creation process of an artwork with equal consideration as its “content.” By using code as both tool and medium, the artists of the CODeDOC installment take broad “conceptual approaches” (Paul) in interpreting the assignment, demonstrating perhaps the most defining characteristics of art, its universal nature, open meaning and propensity towards encompassing everything creative and expressive. Read It →
Paper
FRS 116 Digital Culture
Princeton University
