The Asian Cultural Exchange or ACE is a student organization at Depaul University. It is a group that encourages the exchange of talents, knowledge, and experiences between its members and the DePaul community by preserving the richness and sanctity of the individual cultures and traditions that are part of the Asian/Pacific Islander American heritage. Copied and pasted straight from the source.
The art design committee that runs during preparation for their annual variety showcase required a poster design to be made for it. These are a couple of design concepts.
2014 ACE Show: Build Your Leg(ACE)y: The Potential of You is the Potential of the World
Although this overall poster design was not used, the 3D model of the logo was added to the final design. The logo was made with the Blender program and a parody of The Lego Movie.
2016 ACE Show: ACE Wars: The Culture Awakens
These were just concepts thought of and designed for the event, but never used.
Concepts for an ACE Show that were not for any specific year. The idea was a poster design that resembled red envelopes that were given as holiday gifts by some Asian cultures.
These are a series of fliers made for Columbia College Chicago Student Communications. Requests are received from various CCC-affiliated clients and employees would create design variations for them. The client would select the design that best fit what they were looking for.
Logo concept and card design for Viva Documentary, a student organization at Columbia College. Although, the final logo chosen was something different altogether.
Student Diversity and Inclusion Open House/Commuter Daycation
Putt Putt in Maggie Daley Park/ Waffle Wednesday’s
Fitness Center Hours/SAAEC Meeting
Student’s Scholarship Toolkit
This gallery showcases a couple of designs made under Big Hugs Photo Booth. Various clients hire Bigs Hugs for a social function, and requires a specific design regarding their booth photos. Design templates are made considering the client’s requests. Although a majority of designs made at Big Hugs use free pre-made vectors available online, there are a couple that require tweaking or original artwork.
Unfortunately, most of the designs made at Big Hugs use free vectors found at graphic design resource websites, such as Freepik. This made it easier for template designs, because of time constraints or deadlines of events these designs were made for.
Some designs, such as Annual Gala (above) were made by hired designers for their event, while Big Hugs rearranged or added aesthetics for the templates.
All Star Press is an all-in-one art gallery, retail space, and print studio in Logan Square, Chicago. They specialize in limited edition prints for various artists. These are a series of works brought up during the internship here.
Gifs and animations were made for All Star Press social media, such as list of clients or collaborations.
Gifs were also made for limited edition artist prints: JC Rivera (left) and Blake Jones (right).
A new website was designed/developed through Shopify for All Star Press for functionality as well as keeping similar aesthetics to the original.
Website Homepage
Website Footer
Website Collections Page
Mobile Website
Dim Events is a start-up company that focuses on brand marketing for clientele in the Chicagoland area, ranging from chefs to social media influencers. As a collaborative partner, they ease client workload by offering a variety of services such as event production.
Flyer concepts for a workshop by Mo’Management, a group that assists in individual business and brand growth.
Blak Fatigue is a collaborative event in which panelists from various industries share their experiences of being black in Corporate America in hopes of creating more conversation on black fatigue.
The design of the title was influenced by the definition format in a dictionary. Revenue made from merchandise were then reinvested into their intern program in order to support the next generation of creatives.
Some earlier concepts for merchandise. Variations included a sweatshirt and hoodie.
Custom type was done on merchandising for various clients.
More custom type done on merchandise for Derrick C. Westbrook, a sommelier based in Chicago.
The SEAD Project (Southeast Asian Diaspora) is a non-profit community organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group’s mission is to serve as a creative hub that provides workshops and tools to engage and share knowledge in Khmer, Hmong, Lao and Viet diaspora communities.
1.5: A Southeast Asian Diaspora Remix is an exhibition set up by SEAD in partnership with Minnesota Museum of American Art (the M). Many stories were gathered by the community and then translated into visual works of art by several Southeast Asian Diaspora artists.
A zine was to be designed and released to visitors as an event for the exhibition’s opening.
Images by @theseadproject on Instagram
Riding the Waves of the Sea is another zine that was done to showcase the final projects created by the SEA Change Lab cohort of Fall 2020, as well as to promote the cohort members’ artistry.
For a more in-depth at these projects follow these links: 1.5 Zine and Riding the Waves Zine.
Chicago Over Everything is a streetwear fashion brand focused on representing the city of Chicago. The clothing designs would draw inspiration from the advancing homegrown artistry and talent found in Chicago, showing the city in a more positive portrayal.
Many design concepts were made for the “Growth is a Process” collection, which has a more natural and earthy theme.
Photography by Mel Brunelle.
Butterfly illustrations were made to conceptualize the final design of the hoodie, which was done by the team at Chicago Over Everything.
