Tex-Shield

This is an ad for protective clothing made by Tex-Shield. I helped work on the layout of the text, colors, and images in this ad.

Booz Allen Ad

This is an ad for Booz Allen that I helped with while interning at August, Lang, and Husak. This ad ran in the Gazette newspaper.

Buisness Card for Ursametrics President

This is a business card I worked on for the President of the company, Ursametrics. I helped design the bear icon, Ursametrics logo, and the layout of the card.

Classified Ad for American Mortgage

Classified ad for American Mortgage -- I worked on the layout for this ad while interning at August, Lang, and Husak.

Digital Photo 30 Day Sketch

http://webpages.uncc.edu/~alpiacen/photosketch/

The 30 day sketch was an assignment where I had to take 10 pictures each day for 30 days and post the best picture for that day. The assignment started in March and went through spring break when I was traveling with the tennis team. Most of the pictures in my 30 day sketch were with my teammates on the road in Savannah, GA, Charleston, SC, and Charlotte, NC.

Digital photography gives so much freedom for a photographer to play with color, texture, and scale. This project focused on scale, and our class' work will be displayed in downtown Charlotte in an exhibit. My project dealt with the psychology of tennis and how much it impacts competition. The tennis team has been seeing a tennis psychologist and we have focused on things like visualization, positive and negative thoughts, and relaxation techniques. 90% of tennis is psychological while the other 10% is physical. There is a reference to the ink blot test and repitition of the tennis player to show the importance of the mental side of tennis that visually and figuratively overwelm everything else.

Information Design

The Information Design project was to create a page layout for the "Gaming Gurus" text and statistics. My concept was to create a history diagram going from past, present, and future of gaming. The colors in the design are based on game colors used for Playstation and Nintendo games.

HepatoSys Logo

HepatoSys is a company that specializes in the regeneration of livers used for transplanting into patients with liver disease. HepatoSys created a solution used to pump fluid into the liver to lengthen the life of the liver.

My logo for HepatoSys features an abstract shape of a liver, which is commonly depicted by triangles. My logo uses two triangles, one darker, one lighter, in reference to the "bad" and "good" liver. The color is reminicent of the process which uses fluid to regenerate the liver.

Fotograms

Here are a bunch of Fotograms I'm working on in my photography class. Eventually, I need to mount three photos (or a combination of photos). If anyone has any suggestions or ones they like or dislike please let me know! Also, can you guess what the objects are in the fotograms???

Fotograms

Arizona License Plate Redesign

For my first project in Graphic Design 2, we created a redesign of the state issued license plate for a randomly selected state. For Arizona, I needed to research the state to find out its history, climate, facts, people, and more in order to find out what the most important thing about Arizona is. Arizona is known for its desert climate and tourism, which both stem from the Grand Canyon. When I think of Arizona, the first thing I think of is the Grand Canyon, and it is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

I stayed in the same family of colors used in the previous license, purple and orange, in order to give the plate a desert, sunset appeal. Legibility was a key factor as well in creating the new plate. The symbol in the center dividing the numbers and letters is reminiscent of the population of Native American tribes living in Arizona, as well as giving the plate a "south-western" feel.