Freelance and Side Projects – Page 223

Event Posters

role Designer

Symbiosis runs a sometimes annual art, music, and community gathering. They needed a content-rich website to promote their 2015 event.

symbiosis-01 — Symbiosis’ Previous Event Site

Challenges

The layout of the previous site was very image heavy and lead to several problems for the Symbiosis team:

Slow page loading times
Difficult to read on mobile devices – content & layout was not responsive to different screen sizes
Updates to content required design and coding knowledge

Expanded Content

Built in WordPress to allow for others on the marketing team to update content, it was also important for the design of the site to be modular. Areas of the home and subpages were defined to allow for promoting different content throughout the year as event coordinators signed on new acts and programs.

Engaging the Symbiosis Community

I worked with the marketing team on different ways to create excitement for the event. This mini-game let site visitors set a budget for their own event to see if their allocation of funds would lead to a successful event.

Event Promotions

In addition to the website, I also designed HTML email templates, social media, and web ad graphics to promote ticket sales for the event.

Reusable Layouts

The custom WordPress theme that I built for the 2015 gathering and with plugins that I discovered to be useful to the Symbiosis team along the way, was then used for their subsequent event sites, Symbiosis Gathering 2016 and Oregon Eclipse Gathering 2017.

Symbiosis Gathering

company Symbiosis Events
role Web Design & Development

Next American City was a publication about urban planning and affairs.

I worked with the Editor-in-Chief as well as a brand consultant in redesigning the magazine from what had been a more academic journal-looking publication, to a more modern style that was more approachable to a larger audience. Below are samples of layout spreads that I designed for their Spring 2008 issue.

Next American City Magazine

company The Next American City Magazine
role Graphic Design

Stream Capture Event Poster

role Design
description Poster designed to promote the exhibition of works by photographer Drew Haley.

Electronics Infographic

role Design
description Series of reference cards for basic elements of electronic components - LEDs, resistors and transistors.

Enchanted Event Poster

role Design
description Poster designed to promote the themed event presented by the Space Pirates art collective.

Escape Velocity Event Poster

role Design
description Poster designed to promote the themed event presented by the Space Pirates art collective.

Elody Gyekis Event Poster

role Design
description Poster for the exhibition of Elody Gyekis' works. A rigid, Dada-like style to the typography of this poster was chosen to mimic the fanciful, abstract and chaotic assemblages that contrast with themselves in their acute attention to detail.

Photo Voices Event Poster

company Artist Image Resource
year 2005
role Design
description Poster designed to promote an exhibition of Latino photography, video and installations. The mirrored, bilingual layout for this layout was chosen so that the same poster could be used in either English- or Spanish-speaking communities while reducing printing costs for this non-profit organization.

With an interest in the work that goes on throughout the year for the Burning Man event, I – as lead designer – founded this publication along with its editor-in-chief.

I designed and built the website along with three printed issues that were distributed at the event in 2012, 2013, and 2014.