Portfolio

Graphic and communication designers are ill-equipped to serve inner-city neighborhoods composed of multiple people groups and identity types. This study aims to provide a framework for designers starting a project in Price Hill, Cincinnati, OH.

This research project reads cultural relations in Price Hill by mixing census data with an ethnography of visual design. The reading reveals that people often stay within their cultural boundaries. It concludes with several speculative event proposals that convene people with diverse identities.

Design after Capitalism is a book by DAAP professor Matthew Wizinsky. The website promotes the book while offering tools that transfer its concepts to students and practitioners.

Many Americans live in a vehicle to mitigate their financial pressures. This is not a long-term solution. This design research project draws attention to the crisis through a speculative visual identity for a government agency that supports vehicle-dwellers.

Short Stories from Long Lives (SSLL) encourages people to collect and share stories from older adults. SSLL began as a research project to encourage younger adults to pay attention to older adults—those often neglected—in design and innovation processes.

This Design Strategy project concludes with a proposed undergraduate course syllabus that connects students with people experiencing homelessness. The research included fieldwork, a multi-national survey, and role-playing.

Many communication designers are afraid to design for older adults with dementia for various reasons, including a lack of knowledge. This Design Strategy and Research Methods project offers a game with prompts that enable designers to approach this overlooked population.

Access to new media platforms decentralizes information. How does that affect religious practices? Interviews with my family members across multiple generations showed that perspectives changed. However, greater access to knowledge strengthen the subjects’ faith.