In the 1930s-40s, Franklin D. Roosevelt put into place the New Deal, which included the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. A result of the agency was an influx of artists, writers, actors, and musician, all employed by the government.

Graphic designers enjoyed creating posters, commissioned by the government, all dealing with public works. The posters all seemed to have a certain tone, style, and feel.

The goal of this project was to create a poster in the spirit of the WPA that deals with a current issue. I considered all things we as a country are going through right now - health care issues, national debt issues, foreign affairs issues - however, I found that while these things pertain to me on a large scale, I wanted to do something more personal. I wanted to create a poster that my immediate peers (college students) would relate to on a personal level.

With internships and jobs in the ever-close future, I thought about the things that I would need to be prepared for that time. A portfolio, a complete resume, a personal website. These things are obvious. However, our professors do a very good job of reminding us of one all-important, crucial, often overlooked factor in our possible employment: our footprint in social media. And that's where I landed conceptually.

A quick browse through my Twitter feed will yield a plethora of results: some positive tweets, a TwitPic of food, maybe a couple of humorous retweets. Those things are okay. But every once in a while you will happen upon a tweet that makes you cringe, something so vile and unprofessional that it makes you want to unfollow that person. It's these tweets that can sometimes be the difference between getting a job or not getting one. We, as a generation of people who are always connected to the internet, don't realize that the companies that want to hire us can get a quick view into our lives with the click of a button.

It's this message that I wanted to convey. I felt like the only way to truly reach my generation is to convey that message radically. And the homeless man begging for change seemed like an appropriately radical way to show this message.

The goal of the project was to redesign a website for a local restaurant.

I chose this solution because it shows off the food like the old website didn't. It does what a restaurant's website should do - show off the food. I made it a parallaxed site as well in order to make it more visually interesting.

The goal of the project was to create a comprehensive magazine that gives information about the swiss international style.

I worked with 4 other people in the creation of this magazine. We used the "less is more" approach always - part of the struggle of desiging the publication was just that. This project was an exercise in addition-by-subtraction.

We started off the process by just simply looking at swiss design pieces. We already knew what at least part of the copy was going to be derived from (www.designishistory.com), so our main focus was trying to decide what we wanted our magazine to be. Soon, we all came to the conclusion that we wanted to create an informative piece for design students in the middle-to-early stages of their college careers, a place we weren't too far removed from.

We then researched what that magazine would be and what it would say, look like, and feel like. After those things had been established, we took an extensive amount of time designing the layout and determining type treatments of each page. There was where our problem lied - we wanted to say more by saying less.

After much struggle, long nights, and a considerable amount of typesetting, we came to the solution we have now. We are all proud of the project because we gave our all to coming to the final solution.