February 8, 2010
When I was assigned the Meatpacking District for my designing local currency project I knew I wanted to incorporate its rich and varied past in my designs.
I created a set of five bills that reflect the period of the neighborhood’s history when it was a functional slaughterhouse district set in contrast to the 1980s and 90s when the neighborhood was revived as a center for nightlife in Manhattan.
December 7, 2009
My involvement on this project began in the wire frame stage and lasted through design and development. Our team created the identity for the site, which runs on the WordPress content management system.
November 2, 2007
I began my senior thesis project wanting to research and design a book that would reflect my own experiences, but through exploration the project evolved to focus on the variation in experiences between different individuals at a single location.
After a broad investigation of the topic I narrowed my project on individuals’ experiences at American national monuments. I was curious how people from different backgrounds and places would reflect on their visits to these monoliths.
I received a good number of responses from my interviews and learned that even though the monuments themselves do not change, everyone who visits has a slightly different memory of them. I complemented my ethnographic research with the factual and visual history of each monument, collecting first-hand accounts, souvenirs and travel memorabilia as part of my research. The spreads in the book combine this information with the images and words of the individuals I interviewed.