Critic's Sketchbook: Apple Logo

For this assignment, we had to design a postcard advertising a great work of graphic design to be part of the Cooper-Hewitt permanent collection. I chose the Apple logo because of its great design and its interesting unofficial story. The crop marks and color bars aren't actually part of the design, jsyk.

Per questo esercizio, dovevamo scegliere un lavoro di design grafico e creare una cartolina che lo pubblicizza al museo Cooper-Hewitt. Ho scelto il logo della ditta Apple, per la sua eleganza grafica e per l'interessante storia non ufficiale del logo.

Typography I Book

This is the digital version of the final book from my typography I class. I suggest viewing full screen... it's a little small otherwise.

Il libro che ho creato per la mia classe di tipografia in versione digitale. Suggerisco di guardarlo a schermo intero.

Make Your Own Damn Dinner

The Make Your Own Damn Dinner campaign was created as a group project for a class called Transformation Design where we focused on the importance on cooking at home. The posters, postcards, and magnets were put up around New York City.

Life Folio

Visual Language class at Pratt. Project on communication and the difficulty on communicating between two of my friends who speak different languages (but are now able to communicate).

When you open the book, you are faced with two black pages with text in Italian and English phonetic symbols. The objective is to emulate the experience when listening to a language you don't understand: you read it as sound over meaning... you can pick out words here and there, but mostly it looks/sounds like gibberish. as you flip through the pages on both sides the texture of words showing the translation process becomes thinner and eventually, when the language is mastered, the two speakers can see each other.

Dance Notation Poster

large format poster for a project on notation and movement.

MEF Posters

Freelance posters I designed for the Melanoma Education Foundation for two events in collaboration with English Laundry

Poster creato per la Melanoma Education Foundation per due eventi in collaborazione con la ditta di moda English Laundry.

Berkshire Towers: Out Of This World Tshirt

Tshirt design for Berkshire Towers (MCLA) Contest. Theme: Out Of This World.

Website Design | Peggy Trounstine L.C.S.W.

Website design for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Peggy Trounstine.

www.peggytrounstine.com

Design del sito internet della psicologa Peggy Trounstine.

Business Card | Biglietto da Visita

Pratt Institute

I got into the Pratt graduate program in Communications Design.

Mi hanno accettato a Pratt per un masters in design.

好太鼓 [SkiDaiko] Poster

Poster for a taiko (Japanese ensemble drumming) concert at Skidmore College.

Poster per un concerto di taiko (tamburi tradizionali Giapponesi) a Skidmore College.

Magazine Cover Exercise

Magazine cover design exercise.

Esercizio sul design della copertina di una rivista famosa.

SAC Event Staff Shirt

Shirt for SAC, a Mass College of Liberal Arts club

San Valentino Spumeggiante

Flyer for Valentine's Day special at Plaza Café.

Volantino di San Valentino per il Plaza Café.

Plaza Café Website

Check out the Plaza Café website. My first website design project ever!! A little rough around the edges, to be sure, but a decent first attempt, I think.

www.plazacafe-rivolta.it

Andate sul sito del Plaza Café. Il mio primo sito creato da zero!! Sicuramente un po' crudo in certe parti, ma come primo tentativo, non é terribile, credo.

Luciano Bar Ads

Small window ads for a Milanese bar and café. Professional work.

Plaza Café

Inside and outside of a foldable menu for an Italian Café

Business card (front and back)

Awareness Poster

Awareness poster on LGBT teen sucide

Tadao Ando Editorial Layout

First and second spread of an editorial layout for a magazine article on Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The design is meant to reflect the architect's aesthetic and colour pallet.

G Major

Exercise on info-graphics.

Anna Millian Book Cover

Book cover project where I had to design a complete book cover on a book of my choice.

Special thanks to Diana Cammarano for allowing me to use her book for this school exercise.

Natural Fibres Book

8-spread fold-out book on natural fibres. Each spread features one fibre. The book was dry-mounted together and behind the spreads is a linen texture. The book's cover is also wrapped in linen.

Lovingkindness Logo, Letterhead, and Business Card

Logo, letterhead, and business card for a clothing and food company. The look had to be organic and sophisticated. This was a professional project

Sol Lewitt Art Postcard

Front and back of a post card advertising an art exhibit at Mass MoCa

Music Poster

Poster for a classical music event

Mixed Drinks

Packaging design project for a six-pack of cocktails. The design is meant to be simple, immediate, and elegant. Each drink is identified with a colour and an icon.

NYC Marathon Fundraiser Poster

Professional Project

American Harp Journal Layout

In this exercise, I had to create a one-page editorial layout for a journal of my choice.

The text belongs to the American Harp Society and the images belong to their respective owners. I have no ownership over any of the material.

Lovingkindness Logo

Logo for Lovingkindness, a clothing company based in Marha's Vineyard. This was a

Word Play

Project based on typographically representing and integrating two contrasting words. I chose the words create and destroy.

Five Squares

Typography project integrating 5 squares of body-copy text

Nine Square

This was a typography-based project and the first work in my formal design training which began in July 2009.