Muscle Spindle Animation

Using Flash, I created an animation demonstrating the functional anatomy of the muscle spindle. In physical therapy classes, many students had difficulty picturing how this tiny receptor functioned. I created a visual animation of its role as an educational tool for such students. This was a great opportunity for me to combine my previous physical therapy education with my current art classes.

I am unable to upload my Flash file to this site. Below is a screen shot from the animation.

Tie Dye Instructional Sequence

This project involved creating image-only instructions to describe the series of steps involved in completing a task.

Cities & Change Project

My first typography project in design school was to create a 3-panel piece in response to text given to us about the Big Dig in Boston. There were two phases of this project. In the first phase, all of the type used had to be of the same family and the same size — this, in my opinion, was entirely too restrictive and the results were poor.

The second phase allowed for greater typographic freedom. I chose to represent my daily, ever-changing encounters on the MBTA Red Line in this part of the project (using only typographic elements).

RISD Application: Bike Drawing

Having no idea that I was meant to attend MassArt in Boston, I applied (and was accepted) to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For the application to the school, I had to submit a drawing of a bicycle. There were no guidelines (and, as previously stated, I'm not one to carry around a sketch book).

I imagined that the admissions folks received thousands of perfectly rendered bicycles — I wanted to give them something a bit different. My bicycle was drawn entirely with words. More specifically, it was drawn with a combination of lyrics from the song "Bicycle" by Queen (the vertical text) and my own personal reflections about how guilty I feel for loathing physical exercise (the wavy text). The bike was drawn by darkening select text.

RISD doesn't return your drawing submissions, but these (bad) photos of the project remain.