Dog Rescue Design

This is an ongoing project through which I am combining my passion for dogs and dog rescue with my love of graphic design. While researching, I found lots of information to help people choose the right pure-bred dog, but very few resources to help people select the right rescue and mixed-breed dog. 


I decided to design a quiz to serve as an aid for people looking to adopt a rescue dog through a shelter or rescue organization. I did so by breaking dogs into four basic types. Following the quiz is a description of each of the dog types, along with information about who they are best suited for, how to identify them, and more. Currently the quiz and information are in pamphlet form, though I hope to design an app soon, as well.  


I also created a series of stickers featuring the faces and names of dogs needing homes, as well as the local rescue organization or shelter website where that dog can be found. I then placed the stickers around the city. In the future, I would like to leave pages of stickers laying around in public, with a note telling people to spread them around.


Below are the unfolded pamphlet pages, the folded pamphlet, and the stickers.

Click here to view a PDF of the catalog pages

Tool Bugs

Tool Bugs are functional, transportable, displayable, and aesthetically appealing, two-in-one robot bug tools. The Tool Bug is a hypothetical product that brings together a number of my favorite things, including household tools, robots, and infusing everyday items with visual interest. Shown below are:

• Four Tool Bugs
• A poster promoting the Tool Bugs
• The cover of a catalog for the Tool Bugs
• A link to the full catalog

Click here to view a full-sized PDF of the poster

Click here to see the full catalog

The wack rapper meal

Inspired by lyrics from rapper K-rino, this is hypothetical packaging for a seven-piece wack rapper meal. Each food item is named after a particular type of wack, or bad, rapper, and includes a visual example of a current rapper.

A gluten-free guide to Austin's food trailers (cell phone application)

Independently owned food trailers are a rapidly expanding industry in Austin. For entrepreneurs, they represent an accessible pathway to self-ownership. For customers, they provide a quick and affordable dining option in a rough economy.

This proposed cell phone application is a user-friendly guide to Austin's food trailers for people with gluten and sugar sensitivities, or for those on a low-carbohydrate diet.

The application allows users to narrow their search by location and type of dietary restriction. Selecting a particular food trailer brings up basic information about the business, including their address and the type of food they serve. The user may then to choose to view the menu items that fit their dietary specifications, or return to the list of food trailers.

Click here to view a larger pdf, as well as a site map and wire frames

Parking proposal

These are my contributions to a group project outlining a hypothetical proposal to improve the parking situation at St. Edwards University. The group decided on a tiered parking system with a valet option. I was in charge of the implementation portion of the proposal, which included:

1. Color-coded parking lot signs

2. A poster to promote the new parking system

3. A newspaper ad

4. A sign for the valet stand

Click here to view a larger pdf of all the images

Locating place book

The idea behind the locating place books is to address the general question of what creates, identifies, and defines cities and places, and then focus in on a particular neighborhood.

In order to reflect the idea of the city as an ever evolving entity with no beginning and no end within the actual structure of the book, I used a book structure that also had no beginning or end. It is essentially a wooden dowel with three book sections hanging on metal rings, allowing the pages to be viewed in many different combinations, without a significant opening or closing point.

Click here to view a pdf of the book

Weather report motion piece

The purpose of this project was to create an animated weather report for four cities over a three day period. There are three reports within the movie, each presenting the same weather information categorized in a different manner. The information in this video is organized by location, population, and alphabetical order, respectively.

Dada buttons

The idea behind this project was to create buttons for a hypothetical museum exhibit on the Dada movement. The designs include visual qualities derived from the original movement, with a more modern take. Also included is a promotion poster for the exhibit.

Click here to view a full-sized pdf of the buttons