Design Portfolio Contents
Exhibition Design
8:30 PM Dating App
SCAD Generate Mural Challenge - 1st and 3rd place Winner
Select Murals :
Ashlynn Distillery
Belmont’s Garage
Laser-Cutting
CONFIGURATION
Configuration Group Show 2024
With a group of Atlanta-based emerging artists, we worked to creative a cohesive design for this large juried exhibition. The group worked together to curate artworks, design the space, and advertise the show.
During this project, I worked on a team of three to create the graphic elements for this exhibition, such as advertisements, social media layouts, artist graphics, and an artist book displaying information about the artists and their select works.
8:30 PM
8:30 pm is a dating app that fixes the current issue behind most apps: the date to conversation ratio. With 8:30, you match once per day and are set to have a date with that single person at 8:30 pm (your time zone).
During this project, I learned the ins and outs of design software Figma. The job required me to evaluate the success of certain colors, designs, and formats when applied to the consumer. By creating a company brand, easily identifiable by chosen fonts, logo colors, and overall style, we created an image that stands out to the viewer and is easily recognizable. The User Profile required a bold, readable, design that would be visible over any video. The app needed a modern simple look that matched the time and topic the app centers on.
User Interface and Advertisement Design
App by Walter Labs
SCAD Generate 2021
Project Name: Decatur Cooperative Ministry Courtyard Mural
The Challenge: Decatur Cooperative Ministry serves families facing homelessness- develop a theme and mural for the outdoor courtyard at their emergency night shelter to support their mission and inspire through design.
The night shelter was a special project because their mission is to serve families with children. The corridor connected the initial point of courtyard to the entrance of the safe haven. To further this compelling narrative, I created a design that moved with the path, exemplifying the story of a journey to safety. I created interactive elements for children to explore during the day, including hopscotch on the back of the sea turtle and spiraling paths leading to the bench. I imagined children following along these spiral floor paths, led to their mothers, who sit watching them play.
I created an additional wall design to add to the idea of a peaceful, expansive landscape. I didnt want the space to feel like something that held these families in place, but rather a stop on the way to a new future. I created a design that tied in large patterns with atmospheric landscape elements to force perspective and work with scale. The large scale of these elements would allow for easier readability in the space with less detail, which worked with the space. Similar projects had been conducted inside the shelter, and it seemed to me that it would be best if the project was community-involved, allowing people living at the shelter to help paint the design and foster a sense of community and home. With a simpler design, this idea is attainable and ready to execute.
It was important for a mural of this size to show proper proportion and definition. On a large scale, there needs to be a priority of structure over detail to create a convincing image. I did several anatomical studies of the muscles and bones of the horse as well as the movement of the joints.
I’m especially proud of the definition in the chestnut horse’s facial muscles and form. With a limited color palette, I created a sharp, clean image with a full value scale and defined forms.
Image left: Ashlynn Distillery Mural located at the Ashlynn Distillery in Morrisville, PA. Mural by Tony Napoli Mural Arts. 2023.
Image above: Anatomical studies done in preparation for painting the Ashlynn Distillery Mural
Painting with Light.
MDF, Acrylic, Pine, Plywood, and LED Lights. Custom Adobe Illustrator design, laser cut on mdf.
My contemporary works start with underpaintings that are alive, mimicking moments of fluorescence in nature. Bright colors flashing across the vision, slow colors that seem to dance off the model as she sits under monotonous gaze. My process begins with this luminance which I then cover up, layer by layer.
This sculpture represents and engenders my process. Its light has sculpted my images. I used it to light several of my portrait series with an eerie yellow glow. The frequency of the color in these works is consistent with the frame of mind and emotional space the images are meant to convey.
See here the process of creating a wooden light box. For my first woodworking project, I created a vector design that I translated into a laser cutter for the top of my box. I encased the face of the design in glass and created a frosted-style hand-sanded glass to blur the light backing the image. The box was constructed to fill space, and to have presence. It’s heavy, sturdy, and solid. The piece is meant to be the centerpiece, the way a painting would demand your attention.