by Kessia | Apr 21, 2021 | Publication
The Challenge This project involved the design of a multiple-page product catalogue that contains different hierarchies of rich information content interacting with images and graphics. A catalogue for the linen and bath collection Nestwell™ was created with the...
by Kessia | Apr 17, 2021 | UX/UI Design
The Challenge This project required students to create a new UI experience within a pre-existing application, in order to solve a particular usability issue. The initial problem I proposed to my group was poor accessibility. Spotify’s dark mode-only platform is an...
by Kessia | Mar 21, 2021 | Publication
The Challenge This project called for the conception of a complete redesign of the griff: MacEwan University’s student magazine. In this assignment, students were given the responsibility to select the content, establish a direction in terms of style and point of...
by Kessia | Mar 18, 2021 | UX/UI Design
The Challenge This project called for students to create a mobile and smartwatch app for the Parks Canada reservation system. There was exploration of the target user, persona development, task flow, visual analysis, and app development. As a constraint, the mobile...
by Kessia | Feb 20, 2021 | Publication, Illustration, Typography
The Challenge Peter and Wendy (also known as the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up or Peter Pan) is the story of a mischievous little boy who can fly and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the...
by Kessia | Dec 16, 2020 | Video
The Challenge A music video for the song Overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent was created. The video focused on the many anxious feelings shared by different individuals. This was presented though one “main” character, and branched off to others over time. Plenty of...
by Kessia | Nov 25, 2020 | Information Design
The Challenge A brief of creating a poster displaying data relating to the looping and non-linear timeline of the 1993 film Groundhog Day was assigned. The film was broken down into several sets of data, including time, symbols and events, characters and song...
by Kessia | Nov 2, 2020 | Information Design
The Challenge A brief of creating a poster displaying data relating to climate change was assigned. Data for GDP/capita, Human Development Index, Population, CO2 emissions, Child Mortality, Life Expectancy and Annual Freshwater Withdrawals for 8 countries were...
by Kessia | Oct 15, 2020 | Video
The Challenge In this project, I was tasked with controlling motion spatially across an image, combining frozen elements from a photograph with 1 or 2 key dynamic motion elements to create a creative and complementary “Loop Portrait”. Project Summary The duality of...
by Kessia | May 17, 2020 | Illustration
The Challenge A digital portrait illustration of a friend’s and my original characters from the video game Red Dead Online was created in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet and stylus. Drafts Multiple images of the characters were screencapped in-game for inspiration...
