Design Work Sampler
Special Energy
Personal Project - 2024
My passing knowledge of multiple trading card games has been a pushing force in my choice of projects and interests, and part of this push was some of the strange visuals these games would produce.
I was specifically interested in the illustrations for “Special Energy” that the Pokémon Trading Card Game brought to the table. I was fascinated with these cards. How do you even represent a special energy? What does that even mean?
Looks good enough to eat..
Stickers
Personal Project - 2024-2025
While working on some even more personal projects, I found myself needing to populate a scene with visual noise. The obvious solution (to me) was to make a series of stickers to distract viewers from scrutinizing the rest of the project too closely.
The stickers made as props were partially reused assets and scrapped designs I decided to put a fresh coat of paint on to litter the scene with.
I’m so happy with some of the designs that I want to eventually print them out and stick them on stranger’s cars.
Zachoween Merch
Public Service - 2023-Ongoing
As a distraction from the general October malaise, a plot was hatched to develop a new holiday.
I can’t really remember the early stages of this, but here you will see the results of the hard work on “Zachoween”, an event lasting all of October.
Promotional coaster/t-shirt designs, Icons and brief videos are only some of the crucial materials designed to commemorate this exciting event. I use my Zachoween ‘23 coaster to keep my desk nice and clean.
Who is Zach? That’s not really important right now.
Productivity 101
Freelance Work - 2024
While in College I was introduced to an acquaintance’s friend’s roommate, who was working on a personal project. I offered to make some illustrations for his project.
These are those illustrations, believe it or not.
Adventurefy Icons
Icon Development - 2024-2025
Near the final stretch of my time in college, I was invited to help on an up-and-coming startup.
Based around a productivity app, the plan was to create a productivity empire, and bring the world to a new age of properly spent time.
Included here is some of the icon ideation I did for the project.
The app was designed to gameify tasks to make them more appealing, and require less effort to engage with. As such, the icon was meant to be both exciting but serious. It was important that it could not be mistaken for a game, but without looking boring.
Amazon Redesign
Student Work - 2024
I despise the current Amazon layout. So much so that when given the opportunity to redesign any existing website I immediately chose to tackle their awful- AWFUL website.
Admittedly, if this design were adopted, there would likely be a massive cut to profits with less space dedicated to invasive suggestions and advertisements…
…but I might actually be compelled to buy stuff off the site.
Includes Desktop and Mobile Mockups
Assorted UX/UI
Student Work - 2024
During my time at UT Dallas, I had plenty of opportunities to flex my design muscles and make some designs for common application use cases.
These are some of the nicer designs that came out of these exercises. These include both mobile and desktop layouts, and are meant to follow different design trends and styles, to ensure that I could keep my designs varied.
You may identify a few strange decisions made while making these, and I know what you’re thinking…
(Keep those thoughts to yourself)
Boston Olympics
Student Work - 2024
Another design exercise, this time focused on a theoretical pitch to the Olympic Committee to allow a city of your choice to host the 2024 Olympics.
I’m not sure what was wrong with Paris, but this project is still a favorite of mine.
Is a red, white and blue color scheme a little predictable? Sure, but c’mon, it’s Boston.
Amante Del Riesgo
Internship Work - Summer 2024
I was given the opportunity to do some shadowing/internship work for an internal use PSA. Although my designs were ultimately not used, it was a great experience in helping develop the visual language of a design campaign.
I’ve included some of the mockups for shots in the final campaign.
(Jack Black was unfortunately not present, these were just mockups)