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Women in Games Sneak Peek

Posted on Feb 17, 2012 in Design, IGDA, Portfolio | 0 comments

Here’s a screenshot of the new and (hopefully) soon to be live website for the IGDA Women In Games Special Interest Group (WIGSIG). Can’t wait for it to launch!

Perspectives Newsletter Online

Posted on Dec 28, 2011 in Design, IGDA, Portfolio | 0 comments

This is a screenshot of the IGDA Perspectives newsletter’s online presence (released monthly). December was a particularly enjoyable month for pulling together editorial images – the theme was Game Preservation.

Game Writers Quarterly

Posted on May 1, 2011 in Design, IGDA, Portfolio | 0 comments

The best part of designing magazines – the cover. I designed this quarterly in 2009 for distribution at the Game Developers Conference in Austin, Texas.

It was great to see it evolve from a rough idea to a fully fleshed out design. I started with a few vector elements from www.istockphoto.com: an umbrella, a robot, and an even bigger robot.

Cover elements

For the rough draft, the unaltered elements were simply dropped onto the page.

Rrruff draft.

In the final version, I tweaked the vector art on the large robot significantly, made smaller adjustments to the other elements, and added in rain and reflection effects in Photoshop.

Membership Brochure

Posted on Mar 5, 2011 in Design, IGDA, Portfolio | 0 comments

This is the cover for the IGDA’s membership brochure, which was distributed at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, 2011. Created in InDesign & Photoshop.

Perspectives Newsletter

Posted on Feb 15, 2011 in Design, IGDA, Portfolio | 0 comments

A glimpse into the February issue of the IGDA Perspectives Newsletter, which is distributed electronically to over 74,000 people. (Screenshot in Issuu.com‘s flash-based viewer.)

Deeling.com Update

Posted on Feb 7, 2011 in Design | 0 comments

Just finished an install of a WordPress theme on my mother’s art site www.deeling.com. The dark feel of Foliogrid does a really great job of highlighting her images (theme from FrogsThemes.com). I love the ever-evolving state of WordPress – it empowers non-technical people by helping them take charge of their own content.