Red Bean Box is a student branding project for an Asian grocery subscription service. By partnering with local grocery stores, Red Bean Box supports Asian-American businesses while serving areas without immediate access to Asian cooking ingredients. Visually, the brand combines hand-drawn illustrations with geometric icons and type for a modern, yet inviting take on Asian-American cooking. Included here are the brand elements, packaging mockups, business cards, brand catalog, and website design.
Silver Linings is an exploration of growth from negative experiences visualized through projection mapping and kinetic type. Based on crowdsourced testimonies of real stories, the exhibit encourages visitors to reflect upon their own adverse experiences and the silver linings they may contain. Ask yourself... What's a bad experience you are grateful for?
Blankets and Brie is an outdoor picnic space that focuses on cheese boards, wine, and bringing people together. Customers order the boards through an iPad, which is efficient, customizable, and involves the whole group in the decision-making process. The outdoor dining space focuses on community, featuring daily live music events, movies, and game nights.
Workit is an at-home workout kit designed to promote fun and body positivity for subscribers of all genders, backgrounds, and fitness levels. The kit contains workout gear like weights and water bottles, but also self-care items like face masks.
The tangram logo can be permuted into many different shapes, illustrating the diversity of the kits and the target clients. The colors, a muted organic palette with pops of magenta, are designed to be sassy and gender-neutral. Finally, the copy and the wordmark, with its signature heart, embody Workit’s mission: to celebrate body love for everyone.
A team of students in Fall of 2020 ask: With the advent of COVID-19 and the vast amount of complications that come with it, how could we still create a profitable and entertaining eating experience? Their design concepts for a museum and restaurant collaboration would help smaller, underfunded museums survive COVID-19.
Keep the good times rollin’ with Best Buds! With its friendly branding and quirky personality, the a cannabis-themed food truck is the perfect place to experiment with low-dosage, CBD infused menu items guaranteed to satisfy the munchies! Best Buds promotes a safe, stress-free environment to experiment with low-dosage edibles, while simultaneously establishing a brand image that is unique to other pre-existing product design within the cannabis industry.
Based on a childhood favorite, The Gun Game is a wild west style shootout that requires strategy and luck to survive. The structure is very similar to rock, paper, scissors where each round the players have three options to choose from. Where is differs from rock paper scissors is that not every option is created equal.
The project was built from scratch using p5.js. You can play the game here.
An interval timer app that allows weightlifters to create and save custom tempo workouts.
Redesign of a TV remote with the goal to increase legibility and make it easier for the user to navigate. The interface is multi-sided so the buttons the user sees is only related to the task they wish to accomplish. A charging dock is also included with the device to power the remote wirelessly. The main buttons for navigation are the control pad, the power/source panel, the play/pause panel, volume, and the channel buttons.
Anthologie Dada is a homage to the art movement by collaging the artwork of Joan Miro, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, and Man Ray while accompanied by original poetry. The intent was to embrace the attitude and philosophy of Dada by creating this “exquisite corpse” of the different yet connected disciplines of art and poetry.
An experimental invitation design for the The Annual Met Gala Ball with the theme: About Time: Fashion and Duration, based on the works of Virginia Woolf. The proposed invitation features a "photo-cube" structure.
Releaf Tea centers around the healing power of tea. The project follows the prompt to design a subscription kit that would support the health.
This is a game that guides the user through a Chicken Alfredo recipe. For novice cookers, recipes can seem daunting at times, this game presents a way for them to learn the recipe more thoroughly before trying it themselves. The game was created in p5.js, the responsive website was created with HTML and CSS. Play the game at quasi-design/cooking-live.
The Museum of Sex in New York City is one of the most unusual museums, with exhibitions on everything taboo, from the history of pornos to a statue of two deers mating. Their Muse Foundation's mission is to preserve and make available a comprehensive collection of materials relating to the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality. For a gala to benefit this foundation, it was only right to call it "The Untie Gala," and have the print piece mimic the removal of clothing using buttons, laces, and cheeky language.
This coffee-table book serves as a collection of albums from the grunge scene and their lyrics. The textures, typography, and overall style of the book reflect grunge’s rejection of previous music style norms in favor of grit and angst. Following the inspiration from the deconstructivist period of design made famous by the anti-designer David Carson, the typography and imagery are chaotic. Each spread takes inspiration from its respective album by using different fonts, colors, and other treatments to reflect the different moods and emotions of each album.
Hops is an app made to remind you of what you did while you drank the night before, adds extra social features for while you are drinking, and keeps you safe in situations where you may not be able to take care of yourself while drinking. The app tracks your location, texts, pictures, social media use, and everything else you do with your phone throughout the night in order to give you a detailed summary in the morning after to jog your memory of everything you did whether you want to remember or not.
Thymeshare is an app that helps bridge the gap between urban farmers who want to trade produce. The goal of this app is to build a community around fresh and local produce, as well as reduce food-waste in the process. The logo is an illustrative exchange of different produce, bringing a little more joy into swapping goods. The exchanging hands are nestled inside of a location marker icon, acknowledging the apps ‘hyperlocal’ tag line through imagery.
This is a series of artworks that visualize the movements between multiple planets. The goal was to be experimental and illustrative in this series while also educating about how the planets move in relation to each other around the sun.
The Underground is a representation of a modern-day speakeasy, with music and drinks transporting you into a different time. This project rebranded a speakeasy-themed bar in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new name “The Underground” reflects the secrecy of the prohibition and how often bars would be hidden away underground to avoid authority. The illustration and overall color palette were influenced by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha and his illustrations in the Art Nouveau era.