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Personalities

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Icons for Sound Chimes

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Urmil Dave Photography Logo

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RobotDough Logo Concept

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Reality Bender Logo Concept

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Black Chandelier Logo Concept

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Learn HVAC Logo Concept

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Thriae Logo Concept

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Breathable Foods Logo Concept

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Hydrocephalus Logo Concept

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Vacoria Logo Concept

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Nspire Logo Concept

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Solvido Logo Concept

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Cake Locker Website Concept Design

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JKM Website Concept Design

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Logics Website Concept Design

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EnRoute Website Concept Design

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Iggregate Logo & Concepts

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California Engineer Spring 2010 Cover

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Women 2.0 Badges & Event Logos

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Kevin Xu’s Business Cards

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Business Card Design: Birdie & Flowers

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Michelle Martinez’s Promo Flier

front & back ver. 2

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BuzzLabs Business Card

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BuzzLabs Logo Redesign

client liked #4 from the first set below but wanted a smaller beaker + different color suggestions #1 was the original logo I had to redesign

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GeecsMedia Business Cards

actual products final set was created from combinations/tweaks of the sets below

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Social Gaming Graphic

created a "Pandora's Box" for an upcoming panel event on social gaming curated by Women 2.0!

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GeecsMedia Logos

"something geeky with gears or glasses"

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Serenastyle Scrapbook

redesigned my Tumblr! really liked the solid headers I gave Social Geekette, so I did the same, with a few tweaks

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Social Geekette Ver. 2

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Serenastyle Blog Ver. 2

I really liked the first mockup I designed for a client and since I had actually coded it up but could not use it, I decided to implement it on my own blog, with a few added ...

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Jaeson Ma’s Website

Mock #1: Mock #2: Mock #3: Implementation #1: Implementation #2: The client was unhappy with the previous iteration modeled after mock #2, so I was ...

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Women 2.0 Logos

Which design do you like the most?

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Serenastyle Blog Ver. 1

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Social Geekette Ver. 1

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Painting an Everchanging Canvas

This blog is now Serenastyle Blog

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Serenastyle & Serenastudio B&W Headers

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Business Card Design: Zig-Zag

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Brian’s Business Card

Brian's a photographer. Can you spot the camera?

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Jacob’s Business Card

Jacob’s a creative writer and the EIC for a poetry & short fiction magazine, thus the design concept plays with various texts/styles "on a piece of paper”.

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PLAN C Agency Website

In-depth critique: before & after

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My Mom is a Fob & My Dad is a Fob

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Living 3.0 Seminar Poster

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Living 3.0 Seminar Flier

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Living 3.0 Poster Ver. 2

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Living 3.0 Poster Ver. 1

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ArcSource Postcard Design #2

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ArcSource Postcard Design #1

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California Engineer Winter 2009 Cover

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California Engineer Fall 2009 Cover

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California Engineer Spring 2009 Cover

originally designed in green then changed to blue & orange to match interior

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California Engineer Winter 2008 Cover

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California Engineer Fall 2008 Cover

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Teresa’s Business Cards

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My Business Card (old)

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Photoshoot With Yenting

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Portrait of My Mom

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Shaping a New Soul

sketchbook collage | mixed media | October 2009

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Serenastyle.com

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Project 1C: Urban Activity Center

initial concept sketches & ideas presentation boards plans sections diagrams renderings: interior & exterior perspectives renderings: street views models ARCH 100B SPRING 2009 | INSTRUCTOR: RODDY CREEDON Premise & strategies: My conceptual premise is a series of folding floor plates that organize space and/or create circulation. The form dictates program, such as ...

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Project 1B: Conceptual Cut

ARCH100B SPRING 2009 | INSTRUCTOR: RODDY CREEDON

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My Dare for You

March 2009

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Project 1A: Double Negative + Body/Conveyance

initial photo montage + plans, sections & axons physical models simple renders ARCH100B SPRING 2009 | INSTRUCTOR: RODDY CREEDON My project is about abstracting curved paths and combining them to form a complex void that can be interchangeable with the solid. My operative strategy was to redefine the curve as a ...

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Portraits of Aretha

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CALIBER.59

Designed the entire website for a friend's fashion line, CALIBER.59

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Photo Project: Waiting

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Portraits of My Family

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Photo Project: Checkmate

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Album Layouts (horizontal)

I custom design wedding album layouts for HyStudio. The layouts shown are only a few out of more than one hundred. Those shown here are designed for the horizontal format 15" x 10" album, so each layout is 30"x 10".

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Album Layouts (vertical)

I custom design wedding album layouts for HyStudio. The layouts shown are only a few out of over one hundred. Those shown here are designed for the 10" x 14" vertical album, so each layout is 20" x 14".

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Layouts for Mochi Magazine

Over the summer, I designed a few layouts in Adobe InDesign for Mochi Magazine. Unfortunately, because of a lack of funding, Mochi wasn't able to print our first issue, so the layout team stopped.

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Gridline Lite Theme Modification

made significant changes to the Gridline Lite theme. Improved navigation to include a visual drop-down calendar with other features. Screenshot:

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Full Bloom

Acyrlics, Mixed Media | 16×20 | August 2008

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Galactic Explosion

Collage, Mixed Media, Acrylics | 16×20 | August 2008

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B&W Banners

Photoshop | June 2008

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Center for Independent Living

process models plans & sections 3-D renderings wooden model ARCH 100A | Spring 2008 First core studio's semester-long project done the second semester of my sophomore year; our site is located on 2539 Telegraph Avenue in downtown Berkeley between private/residential Regent Street and public/commercial Telegraph Avenue, directly across the ...

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Concrete Bridge

ARCH160 | Spring 2008 This was a team project done my sophomore year for a construction class. Our bridge was reinforced with thin wire mesh and it had a double-T along the bottom. The footings were much thicker than the body but hallowed out to save weight. During the test, ...

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Privacy Pod

sketch models ARCH160 | Spring 2008 This was a team project done my sophomore year for a construction class. Our task was to create a "privacy pod" out of steel only. We bent, cut, and hammered conduit pipes and connected all the pieces with rivets, screws, and 2 connectors for ...

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On a Tank of Gas

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Possibilities

sketchbook collage | 2008

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Individual, You Are

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Collins, Imagine

2008

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Imagine

Photoshop | February 2008

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Lost in Europe

Photoshop | February 2008

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Transforming Guitar Case

ARCH160 | Spring 2008 +Casey Amberger, Pia Eulogio, Julie Wu We had to create an instrument case (out of wood) that transformed into a seat, music stand, and/or display case. We were not allowed to use metal hinges and each cross-sectional wood member could only be 1.5" in thickness max. We ...

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Letting Love Go…

Adobe Illustrator

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Little Brown Bag

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Airship Docking Tower

ARCH 150 | Fall 2007 + Jennifer King and Jian Ying Li Intro. & design approach Final design & circulation Connections testing Structural approach Plans & sections Structure & calculations SAP analysis 160' scale SAP analysis 40" scale Testing: global failures 1, ...

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Swimming Pool Complex

ED11B | Fall 2007 Second design project done for an intro to design studio course completed the first semester of my sophomore year. The assignment was to design a pool/skating complex that included offices, lockerrooms, lounge, and reception. Just as a swimmer "slices" his arms into the water and pushes ...

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Accumulated Landscape

ED11B | Fall 2007 First real design project done for an intro to design studio course completed the first semester of my sophomore year. This month-long project was split into 3 parts: subtracting land, adding walls, and multiplying a pattern to create the mesh/roof.

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Trellis Design

ARCH150 | Fall 2007 Individual project done during my sophomore year for a structures course. I designed it so that the main wooden members held each other in place with series of knotches. The structure itself was already pretty strong and stable without the reinforced pieces and glue.

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Strawberry Creek

ED11B | Fall 2007 First semester of my sophomore year, our studio collectively reconstructed a model of Strawberry Creek and added in bridges, stairs, and overlooks. I chose to create a tiny foot bridge, since a bridge made the most sense for my particular strip of the creek.

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Photoshoot With Sarah

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SF Poetry Plaza

ED11A | Spring 2007 This project was actually assigned at the end of our art studio, the prerequisite to our first design studio, so the design process wasn't emphasized; it was assigned only as an introduction to design. Project done during my freshman year.

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Pedagogic Paradigm

ED11A | Spring 2007 I built an abstract structure out of wooden strips and chipboard and then sprayed the entire model with gesso.

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6' Self Portrait

Charcoal, chalk | 36×72 | April 2007

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Sather Gate

Graphite | 14×19 | April 2007

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Tree Trunk

Charcoal, chalk | 36×72 | April 2007

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Portraits of Stefany

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Coat, desk, chair

Graphite | 18×24 | March 2007

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International House

Charcoal | 18×24 | March 2007

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Quick Gestural Drawings

Ink, wash | 18×24 each | Feb/March 2007

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Ando Case Study: Poster Design

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Explore

for Gerald | 2007

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Still Life

Graphite | 9×12 | February 2007

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Doe Library

Graphite & ink, wash | 18×24 each | February 2007

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Hadid Case Study: Poster Design

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Modern on the Inside

2007

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Claustrophobia

Photoshop | December 2006

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Girl on the Go

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Dreams

Photoshop | October 2006

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Black-faced Spoonbill

ED1 | October 2006 I built a life-sized spoonbill out of recycled plastic bottles of all sizes, and then spray-painted the sculpture.

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Desk Organizer

ED1 | Fall 2006 Project I did my first semester freshman year to familiarize myself with the shop and its tools and machines.

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Flash Portfolio

When Flash-animated websites were popular, I decided to create one of my own. The entire design is 100% Flash built. Ultimately, the site was not search engine optimized and quite inefficient, so I discontinued it.

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Newspaper Designs (b&w)

more designs for The Smoke Signal

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Newspaper Designs (color)

As one of the '05-'06 Special Feature editors of our high school newspaper, The Smoke Signal, I designed the center spread layouts with Adobe InDesign. The Smoke Signal was an All-Columbian Gold Medalist awarded by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for the 2005-2006 school year.

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Trapped in Circles

Collage, Mixed media | 12×16 | April 2006

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Lost in Transition

Acrylics, Mixed media | 12×16 | April 2006

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Adrenaline Rush

Acrylics | 12×16 | February 2006

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Jubilant Bubbles

Acrylics | 11×14 | February 2006

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Time Warp

Scratchboard | 8×11 | January 2006

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Lonely Willow

Mixed media | 11×14 | January 2006

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Collage of Self

Mixed media | 12×16 | January 2006

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Mysticism

Paint on plastic | 10×10 | January 2006

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Camouflage

Oil-pastel | 12×15 | December 2005

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Shadows on the Beach

Oil-pastel | 11×15 | December 2005

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Surrealist Landscape

Oil-pastel | 12×15 | November 2005

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An Artist's Hand

Mixed media | 12×15 | November 2005

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Kayla

Pen & marker | 8×11 | August 2005

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Expressional Sketch

Graphite | 11×14 | August 2005

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Pond Reflection

Watercolor | 12×15 | August 2005

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Ocean Cliff

Oil-paints | 20×24 | August 2005

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Santa Cruz

Watercolor | 11×15 | March 2005

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Ceramic Containers

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Ceramic Bowls

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Ceramic Vases

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Livejournal Layout

This was one of the most graphics-intensive layouts I created for my LiveJournal back in my junior year of high school. The navigation consisted of tabs on the right edge with preview images of each page’s header image.

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