Work Samples
Professional Work
This is work that I did as a professional designer at: HealyKohler Design, a small museum exhibition design firm in Washington, DC; Top Shelf Design, a small print and web/app design firm in Arlington, VA; The American Health Lawyers Association (now called The American Health Law Association), an educational non-profit in DC with an editorial design focus.
Logos, 2015-2017: This shows a variety of logos I created. Each of these also had a mini or full style guide
Children's Cause For Cancer Advocacy, 2017: This was a campaign for Children's Cause for Cancer Advocacy. I created a report that would be given to Congress when they lobbied. There were also two brochures I created associated with the campaign.
NMAPC and TAUC Recruitment Booklets, 2017: These are two booklets created for The Association for Union Constructors and the National Maintenance and Planning Committee. Their members were aging and they wanted to recruit younger members so I created two booklets in a style that would appeal to younger members while still using their brand guidelines.
National Soccer Hall of Fame Infographic, 2018: This is an infographic I created for The National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco Texas. IT shows where all of the teams in the different professional soccer leagues in America are located.
Reston Town Center, 2017: This shows a window covering for an empty storefront in Reston Town Center as well as a pop-up sign and a brochure showing their winter events. For this, I created a series of different brochures and popup signs for different seasons that used different color gradients and patterns.
World Movement For Democracy Infographic, 2017: This is an informational graphic for The World Movement For Democracy. It contains key moments in their history.
AHLA Public Interest Infographic, 2014: This infographic was the center spread for AHLA Connections Magazine. I designed the magazine monthly with one other designer for a little over five years. This spread was meant to raise awareness for the American Health Lawyers Association public interest initiatives.
Failing Our Kids Website, 2016: I designed this site to showcase how schools are failing children. It was a parallaxing website so as you scrolled down the numbers would increase and the charts would fill in.
Invitations, 2014-2019: These are a variety of invitations to different events that I designed. The far left is for a bridal shower, the one with the birds is for a vintage-style wedding, the second to the right is for the Hispanic Heritage Awards on PBS and the far right is an invitation for The Association of Union Constructors annual meeting.
The Extinction Club, 2020: This is a branding project and experience design project. I created a speculative restaurant of the future that only serves extinct flora and fauna grown in a lab. This project has an app and AR components as well as more traditional print and branding components. You can see the app walkthrough below.
The Eel Uprising, 2020: This is a game I created. I designed a website and created a series of 6 animations and a Twitter page. Players must watch each animation and look for clues to get passwords to unlock the next web page with the next part of the story. You can visit the website here https://atobin018.wixsite.com/eeluprising. You can see one of the animations below.
Refraction Festival, 2020: This is the branding for a festival I created in Cinema 4D. The graphics were created by reflecting text off of 3D metallic objects that I modeled.
The Extinction Club App, 2020
The Eel Uprising Animation, 2020
Student Work
Below you can see a selection of work from my students in my Graduate Teaching Internships at Maryland Institute College of Art. Each course was taught by a professor and I assisted. Graphic Design II, taught by Mark Sanders, was an introductory level web design course. Signs Exhibits Spaces, taught by Clay Kippen, was a spatial, environmental, and exhibition design course. Immersive Experience Design, taught by Abraham Burickson, was an interactive arts class that taught students to create in-person and digital experiences in the medium of their choosing.
Reading A Website, 2020: Michelle Kim abstractly expressed how she read an assigned web page using the direction of the type as well as leading, kerning, and overlap to show what text stood out to her on the page.
Mediumship Website, 2020: Breaonna Brask designed and coded this website about the paranormal. She created 8 research pages that used a similar format to this, a portal page with a grid, and a home page with its own format.
Starbucks Redesign, 2020: Alan Park turned the KAGRO building in Baltimore into a Starbucks covered in super graphics. He used elements from the logo to create his own graphic and pattern system. In the interior he created clever bathroom graphics out of the logo. He used a pattern on the floor of the exterior and interior to guide patrons.
John Baldessari Exhibit, 2020: Hennie Park created a museum exhibition showcasing the work of John Baldessari. She used colors and shapes pulled from his work throughout the exhibit. She created a floor plan and some additional signage and bags to promote the exhibit.
Subway Redesign, 2020: Joonshik Cho turned the KAGRO building in Baltimore into a Subway. He redesigned the exterior to have green elements including a living wall. In the interior he created a signage system and Icons for the bathrooms, trash, and recycling as well as way-finding elements using lines on the floor.
Story Pets App, 2020: Monika Vootukuri created an app where parents or grandparents can record themselves reading bedtime stories to their children or grandchildren. Then the child could listen to the story through a Bluetooth speaker.
The Art of War Game, 2020: Claudia Morris and Satwik Gade created a game based off the book "The Art of War" and the designed these beautiful assets for the game.
Reading A Website, 2020: Ariana Vilchis abstractly showed how she read an assigned website using hierarchy and attention through a variety of tactics. She used groups of text as well as positive and negative space, overlap, color, scale, and leading. She also played with legibility to show what text caught her atteniton.