montserrat design
design senior projects, ca 1998-2020

2001  <   2002   >   2003

			Andrew Adamowicz John Cotte Luke Fletcher
			Jason Hurley Greg Ialynytchev Lorraine Jarnes
			Karina Molla Litvinov Alaina Marchand Sarah Pandapas
			Demitri Riskal Savath San Allison Souza
			Crystal Sullivan

 

• Andrew Adamowicz
  coffeemaker (product design)

  Fall semester —
  conceptualizing a coffeemaker that “automatically grinds beans, brews coffee, and then dispenses the spent grinds and rinses the filter.”
  First semester devoted to developing idea, advertising, point-of-purchase brochure.
  Spring semester —
  develop design, from sketches through paper maché model (layer by layer). fabrication of display.
  “In the end... the model evokes different feelings and thoughts for the viewer. So when it is sitting on a counter top somewhere, it’s not just a coffeemaker, but a conversation piece.”

  current —
  Systems Administrator with Infinite Electronics

• John Cotte
  Modern Continental

  Modern Continental Construction Corporation
  identity/logo redesign application on various stationery, color-differentiate by division; also, application on (toy) vehicles, for photography
  thumbnail image above : Polaroid JoyCam image of logo, applied to toy vehicle (process shot)

  current —
  johnccotte.com

• Luke Fletcher
  Gentleman’s Fiction, Beowulf

  Fall semester —
  Gentleman’s Fiction — magazine layouts, design
  incorporated Fletcher’s own fiction, including “Failure Train.”
  Nigel Waitze — continuing on with fiction, inspired by El Lissitzky self-portrait The Constructor
  Spring semester —
  Beowulf — design and illustration of an edition of that Anglo Saxon text
  thumbnail image above :detail, Nigel Waitze

  current —
  Senior Graphic Designer, Retail Design Manager, Bauer Hockey
  Owner, Art Director, Fletcher Designs

• Jason Hurley
  Creature Company

  Business plan, development, identity, packaging of a line of premium pet supplies

• Greg Ialynytchev
  various

  various projects —
  personal résumé;, stationery
  chocolate covered raisins (packaging, label)
  children’s illustrated English-Russian/Russian-English dictionary cover design
  promotional posters (Aggressive Skating Association tournament)
  informational website on sadness (vs clinical depression)
  thumbnail image above : packaging, detail

  current —
  IT Project Manager at CRICO

• Lorraine Jarnes
  Why We Vote the Way We Do; I Regret Nothing and Other Life-Sustaining Illusions

  Spring 2001 —
  Why We Vote the Way We Do : Comments from the Peanut Gallery
  independent advisor, Prof. Gordon Arnold
  investigation of political advertising in several election campaigns, their effect on voters, etc.
  Fall 2001 —
  I Regret Nothing and Other Life-Sustaining Illusions
  book inspired by Jill Ker Konway’s When Memory Speaks (1998), incorporating author/designer’s own journal entries; book design and binding objectives

  image :
  detail, from cover of Why We Vote, documentation copy (printer running out of toner); shows author/designer with brother and sister at 1964 New York World’s Fair.

• Karina Molla Litvinov
  Riga, Land of the Dead

  Fall semester —
  Riga — design of a cyrillic typeface based on Baskerville
  Spring semester —
  Land of the Dead — composition and design of a bilingual (English and Russian) book on a gulag prison site

• Alaina Marchand
  Laurel K. Hamilton book covers

  cover designs, for a series of Laurel K. Hamilton novels.

  current —
  Case Manager, at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

• Sarah (Pandapas) White
  Shirts Off in Advance, Discord Records

  Fall semester —
  Shirts Off in Advance : punk band identity, CD covers, etc.
  Spring semester —
  Discords Records graphic standards manual
  L’Oreal annual report design
  personal portfolio design

  current —
  Art Director/Owner, Murrow Creative

• Demitri Riskal
  Guitar Basics

  Development of a guide to playing guitar, including photography, diagrams
  thumbnail image above : detail, Table of Contents (from process book)

  current —
  linkedin

• Savath San
  Sin Si Samuth

  Fall semester —
  redesign identity, Richardson Electronics Corp. (also annual report, etc.)
  Spring semester —
  information website devoted to (great) Cambodian singer Sin Si Samuth (1932-1976 *)

  current —
  CPS Technologies, ACN Telecommunications

• Allison Souza
  Abandonment

  Series of books on different aspects/senses of abandonment, including
  1   physical abandonment (deterioration of an abandoned house, that I have been documenting for three years);
  2   emotional abandonment (using abandoned photo, from an album purchased);
  3   cultural abandonment (changes in fashion, abandonment of out-of-fashion clothing; worked with Ilene Beckerman’s book Love, Loss, and What I Wore (1995))

  thumbnail image above : detail, physical space (abandoned building, entryway; showthrough from back)

  current —
  Client Engagement Manager at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

• Crystal Sullivan
  C21 Cosmetics; Pigeons & Gargoyles : Twelve Nights in Paris

  Fall semester —
  C21 Cosmetics
  identity, packaging, advertising and point-of-sale brochure design
  Spring semester —
  Pigeons & Gargoyles : Twelve Nights in Paris
  book design, text and photography (on a trip to Paris)

  thumbnail image above :
  “Pigeon perched atop a gargoyle, Cathédral Notre Dame”
  (from project documentation)