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  KIKI SITE DESIGN | kikimag.com

  This site was designed to cater specifically toward Kiki Magazine’s consumers, "tween" girls and their parents. The site’s redesign needed to communicate with a playful, young, and fresh point of view. The final design resulted in bright colors, a combination of photographs with custom illustrations, and a simplistic layout.

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  "I LOVE WHEN YOU SMELL LIKE BUTTER"

  This scene was inspired by a quote from a movie. The woman works at a bakery and when she runs in to her ex-husband, he can't help saying "I love when you smell like butter." My indulgent passion for food made me want to take that piece of dialogue and do something fun with it. As a result I drew butter incarnate, a woman in melty yellows baking and being swept off her feet.

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  ZOOLOGICAL VIDEO MONTAGE EXPLORATION | PLAY - zoo_exploration.swf

  This school project is an interactive application aimed toward an audience of all ages. The goal is for the user to create a video montage while simultaneously helping the peacock restore its feathers. Attention to usability and user feedback was essential to encourage exploration and successful completion of the montage.

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  KIKI SITE DESIGN | kikimag.com

  This site was designed to cater specifically toward Kiki Magazine’s consumers, "tween" girls and their parents. The site’s redesign needed to communicate with a playful, young, and fresh point of view. The final design resulted in bright colors, a combination of photographs with custom illustrations, and a simplistic layout.

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  B-BOOKS WEBSITE | b-books.com

  I designed and developed this website for B-Books, a publishing company based in the Greater Cincinnati Area. The process involved creating a layout that would successfully show the company’s love of paper and written form while also communicating their purpose and showcasing their portfolio.

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  QUEEN BEE BLOG DESIGN

  In this school assignment we were given the freedom to choose any topic for a blog. I chose food! My last name Appiarius means "bee keeper" and my mother’s name mean’s "queen bee", so with the intention of creating a blog that she could use to document family recipes, I created this design.

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  CCA STABLES WEBSITE | ccastables.com

  I designed and coded this website for Cohron’s Chestnut Acres, an English stable rooted in a love of Irish tradition.

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  VALENTINE’S DAY MESSENGER

  For this illustration I wanted to embrace my quintessential nature to draw all things girly. This is my version of cupid as a strawberries and cream zebra steed mounted by a messenger decked out in cupcake pink and candy purple.

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  CAT-WALKING

  When I lived in New York City I kept seeing people walking their tiny toy dogs. This made me want to create a wildly contrasting image of a girl walking giant cats. I had a lot of fun putting this composition together and using the city as a backdrop.

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  GRAMMIE

  This is a portrait of my Great Grandma that I painted for my Mom. We both have fond recollections of her as a graceful and sweet woman who's porch was a family sanctuary flooded with butterflies, irises and geraniums. I integrated our memories into a portrait inspired by nature, Art Nouveau, and most importantly, her life.

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  A DARK GUIDE

  As a child, wolves used to friend my imagination and haunt my dreams. Their majesty still enthralls me and so I made an illustration that started with a sketch in Photoshop and ended with the pen tool in Illustrator.

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  "I LOVE WHEN YOU SMELL LIKE BUTTER"

  This scene was inspired by a quote from a movie. The woman works at a bakery and when she runs in to her ex-husband, he can't help saying "I love when you smell like butter." My indulgent passion for food made me want to take that piece of dialogue and do something fun with it. As a result I drew butter incarnate, a woman in melty yellows baking and being swept off her feet.

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  REUSABLE SHOPPING BAG

  This design was for a competition hosted by JcPenney. Although I wasn’t a finalist, I enjoyed putting my skills toward a product that would’ve been both stylish and meaningful in its representation of the environment and sustainable living. * Competition requirement: limit of 4 colors and must display the JcPenney and Simply Green logo.

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  MAKE-BELIEVE

  Who doesn't want to go flying though the clouds on a feathered steed of baby blue and pearly white?

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  VAMPIRESQUE

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  AMERICAN GREETINGS DESIGN BOARDS

  These are boards I designed for a pitch at Lightborne. Taking into consideration the brand’s directive, I created style frames for a metaphoric animation that shows connection and relationship through nature. The journey begins with a raindrop that falls and spins through butterflies, intwining vines and other imagery that invokes connection, a core value of American Greetings.

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  T-MOBILE DESIGN BOARDS

  This class exercise is a design pitch for a 30 second commercial featuring a phone and its ability to be an mp3 player. After researching a demographic, creating a persona, and gathering reference material, I developed these boards to propose the look and feel of the final animation.

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  ABSTRACT DESIGN SEQUENCE

  For this class exercise, I studied leaves, sketched, and compiled a library of designs from which I drew inspiration. I chose to take an elegant approach in creating a 5 sequenced layout that spans from a light and tranquil composition to a dark and royal arrangement of shapes and lines.

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  GUNGIRL 2 SOUNDTRACK

  I designed this CD cover for the soundtrack to the computer game GunGirl2 composed by Josh Whelchel. I'll admit that it was a lot of fun to step out of my box into a realm where a bit of sex and violence was needed to communicate the story of the game.

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  POOLSIDE LOGO

  This logo was completed for a local Cincinnati band, Poolside.

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  Amanda and Brett's Pissy Pizza Night

  This logo was inspired by roommate nights spent ordering Pizza Hut's carb loaded stuffed crust pepperoni while watching television and emotionally venting. Pure goofiness.

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  ICON SYSTEM

  The purpose of this class project was to create a cohesive icon system. Throughout the course of this assignment I went through an extensive design process and learned the effectiveness of communicating with a consistent visual language.

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  ANGELS IN IRELAND

  This design was created to be printed on tee-shirts and hooded sweatshirts for a spiritual group traveling to Ireland.

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  HART LOGO

  I volunteered to design this logo for a local animal rescue center. HART needed a piece that spoke of their love for animals while playing off of the meaning of their name.

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  PORTLAND.
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  THE UNWAVERING DOG
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  LITTLE COUSIN ALYSE
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  ESSENCE OF BARN CAT
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  LADY HAWK, BRIDLED
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  WHITE CHOCOLATE GINGERBREAD DESSERT BARS - CHRISTMASTIME
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  SUN LIGHT
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  THE STABLE IS A TEMPLE
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  PEANUT BUTTER, REESES CUP, SWIRL BROWNIE