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  • Design Portfolio

    Summer Orientation 2011
    Client: Orientation and Family Programs and Services Designers: Andrew Curtis, Teodora Blindu, Tucker Smith, Logan Regier, Lindsey Smith, Ayn Roberts, Christine Vi, Travis Boatright, Lois Petersen, Rafael Goncalves, Ngan Hoang, Rouba AbouChabke, Melissa Phillips, Armando Valentino, Kristy Carroll, Amy Yatsuk, Stephen Iero, Zania Barnum, Jose Ruiz, Marzia Motta and Alyssa Setia. Creative Brief: Making a [...]
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    SoA Olympics 2012
    Client: Focus Group Designer: Andrew Curtis Creative Brief: Creating a design for a student event to bring community to the School of Art. Designed Deliverables: T-shirt and Posters Solution: Reflecting the Olympics brand and adding icons representing each department of the school of art. Result: Huge turnout. T-shirts were in high demand.
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    Family Weekend 2010
    Client: Orientation and Family Programs and Services Designers: Lindsey Smith, Andrew Curtis, Ayn Roberts Creative Brief: Creating a friendly theme that is appealing to families and that has a lighthearted tone to it. Deliverables: Program book, VIP pass, Marquee sign, postcard, and coffee mug logo Solution: This lighthearted theme was created based off a wedding [...]
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    Homecoming 2012
    Client: Office of Student Involvement Designers: Rachel Semenov, Vinh Le,  Dan Dunnemann, Andrew Curtis Creative Brief: Creating a more lively design that reflected the new theme which was “Disney” Deliverables: Campus Map/Brochure, Web Page, and T-Shirt Solution: Creating a hand illustration for the map to make it look like a theme park and creating a [...]
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    Patriot Leader Recruitment 2012
    Client: Orientation and Family Programs and Services Designer: Randall Parrish Creative Brief: Creating a new design concept to defer from previous years and to create a new aesthetic to bring in new Patriot Leaders. Deliverables: Posters Solution: Creating a filmstrip effect using sharp and blurry imagery and using the tag line “Bring your ______ into [...]
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    Extreme Pumpkin Makeover
    Client: AIGA-GMU Designers: Matt Small and Andrew Curtis Creative Brief: Creating a new fun yet exciting design for our advertising for the event asking for submissions. Deliverables: Posters, Postcards Solution: Using the illustrations and the typography it achieved a fun/friendly feel which attracted a lot of students to enter and attend along with various sponsors [...]
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  • Alumni Members

    Jose Ruiz
    Outreach Officer http://www.behance.net/JoseRuiz Jose was apart of the AIGA GMU in 2010-2011 gaining new members to the student body. He participated in many fraternity and community functions on campus as a designer. He is currently living in Brooklyn.
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    Marzia Motta
    Treasurer LinkedIn Marzia was born and raised in Italy. She came to America a few years ago and started studying at GMU for her bachelors in graphic design. She was the group’s Treasurer from 2010-2011. Her contributions as treasurer were greatly appreciated in maintain the groups finances. She has worked at the Samueli Institute and [...]
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    Katri Haas
    Promotions Officer http://cargocollective.com/katrihaas Katri has been a great asset in getting young student designers to participate in AIGA GMU by designing posters for the events to get student outreach. She has also been heavily involved in getting and prepping spaces for event. Over the summer of 2012 she interned at Michael Sparks Design where she [...]
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    Lentie Ward
    Membership Officer http://www.lentieward.com/ Lentie was the groups Membership officer for the Fall of 2011 where she helped out with events and student outreach. In the spring of 2012 she studied abroad in the United Kingdom. Currently she works on campus at the Collaborative Learning HUB teaching HTML/CSS and basics of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
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    Randall Parrish
     Outreach Officer http://www.randallparrish.net Randall joined AIGA GMU in 2012 as the groups Outreach officer to bring in more student members to the group. He has participated in planning several events including MC-ing for Extreme Pumpkin Makeover. So far he has interned at AARP and iStrategyLabs and this summer he will be interning at the Web [...]
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    Ramla Mahmood
    Vice President/Treasurer http://ramlamahmood.com/ Ramla has been involved in AIGA GMU for the past few years as the Treasurer and Vice President. She has helped in everything from balancing the organizations budget to planning the New York trips every semester. Ramla previously worked at the Collaborative Learning HUB on campus. Currently she is interning at Vox [...]
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    Emily Posner
    Treasurer http://www.emily-posner.com Emily was AIGA GMU’s treasurer in 2009 and participated in the Summer Orientation Project in 2010. Her and Heather were leaders in getting together the T-shirt Design contest for the student group. Emily has worked at places as Opower, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and is currently working at Atlassian as a Visual Designer [...]
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    Courtney Leonard
    President/Programming Officer http://www.behance.net/courtneyleonard Courtney has been active in AIGA for the past two years as both the Programming officer and as President. Courtney is known for having the knack for networking. A few NYC Studios that AIGA has toured, such as Vimeo, have happened due to her connections in the Design community She has had [...]
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    Christine Vi
    Secretary http://www.behance.net/christinevi Christine became the Secretary for AIGA GMU in 2011. She has been a great asset in taking notes and sending out emails to the student group informing them on the events and participating in several AIGA GMU Design Firm projects. She has interned at SOA Print and designed for Housing and Resident Life. 
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    Melissa Phillips
    Programming Officer http://lissaleigh.com/ Melissa was the programming officer for the 2010-2011 school year. She helped plan the first two big AIGA GMU NYC trips where we visited SVA to see Gail Anderson and Mucca Designs. She has interned at National Geographic, ASCD, and Levine & Associates.
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    Travis Boatright
    Vice President/Membership Officer http://travisboatright.com/ Travis was apart of AIGA GMU as the membership officer and Vice President. He was involved in helping new freshmen and transfer students learn about AIGA GMU and to bring new blood into the student group. He also helped schedule some studio tours and planned events for the academic calendar. He [...]
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    Armando Valentino
    Membership Officer http://www.behance.net/armandovalentino Armando was apart of AIGA GMU as the Membership officer. He assisted in design firm projects and event planning for the student group. He is currently working at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC.
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    MK Loomis
    Membership Officer http://mkloomis.com/ MK was apart of AIGA GMU as the membership officer in 2010. She was involved in helping design the AIGA GMU brand and getting other members to join AIGA DC. She has interned at Belmont and Grafik. She also worked at Threespot and is currently working at MRY as a designer while [...]
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    Zania Barnum
    Blogger http://www.behance.net/zbarnum Zania became apart of AIGA GMU in 2012 as the blogger. She was involved in updating the website in creating blogs on Studio tours and events. She also helped with prepping and planning activities for the group. She was actively involved in the Mason women’s soccer team. Currently she is working at the [...]
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    Ayn Roberts
    Vice President/Programming Officer http://aynroberts.com/ Ayn was heavily involved in AIGA GMU as both the Programming Officer and Vice President of AIGA GMU. She organized a lot of the studio tours we have visited in the early days including Viget, Fathom Creative and Design Army! In her career she has worked at Gannett, McKinsey Development and [...]
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    Teodora Blîndu
    President/Communications Officer Teodorablindu.com Teodora was first a Communications officer for the 2009-2010 school year but became president the next year where she was heavily involved in creating the AIGA NYC trips and making Extreme Pumpkin Makeover one of AIGA GMU’s most celebrated social gatherings for all of SoA. Currently Teo is on the AIGA DC [...]
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    Alyssa Setia
    Secretary http://www.alyssasetia.com/ Alyssa was AIGA’s secretary from 2010-2011. She was very involved in taking notes on weekly meetings to keep up all the important info going on in AIGA GMU.  She has interned at GAM Printers and ASCD. Currently she is working at TDG Communications in Alexandria.
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    Logan Regier
    Co-Production Coordinator http://www.behance.net/LoganRegier Logan was a big help and support to AIGA GMU by helping out with events and designing for Design firm Projects. He worked with Andrew on managing a few of the bigger projects done by the group. Logan was also involved in Focus group in helping them with promotions.
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    Lois Petersen
    Communications Officer http://loispetersen.com/ Lois was a big part on getting the messaging out to the student body of AIGA GMU. She helped out in a fair few design firm projects and was an active member of Campus Bible Study. Currently she is working on achieving her masters in Arts Education at Mason.
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    Joseph Le
    Web Officer http://www.josephle.net Joseph has been an incredible asset to AIGA GMU. He has been apart of making the previously designed website, to competing in design battle, to designing the groups t-shirts and concepts for Orientation. He interned at Viget and Pappas group and currently works at Viget Labs as a designer.
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    Lindsey Smith
    AIGA DC Liaison/Vice President Linkedin Lindsey is known for being the recruiter of AIGA GMU in its early days! She was the Vice President during the 2009-2010 school year where she was involved in some very early Design Firm projects including Patriot Leader Recruitment, Family Weekend and Summer Orientation of 2010. The following year she [...]
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    Minh Tran
    President LinkedIn Minh was president during the 2009-2010 school year and was involved with leading weekly meetings for the student body.  Minh has worked at places such as Wegmans, Sage Communications and Sagetopia! He is currently working at Viget Labs as a Designer.
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    Heather Stevens
    Promotions Officer http://www.heatherstevens.com/ Heather was active in helping organize the t-shirt competition for AIGA GMU’s branding. Along with Emily they organized the t-shirt sales and printing. Heather was also heavily involved in design firm with designing for the 2010 Orientation Guide. She has worked at places such as Mosi Design and the Art Whino Gallery. [...]
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    Tucker Smith
    Co-Production Coordinator http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tucker-smith/31/ba9/54 Tucker was actively involved in AIGA GMU in supporting events and in project managing design firm projects with Andrew. As Production Coordinator he helped with completing the Summer 2011 Orientation Guide that won the NODA Award for best two to three color brochure and clothing item.  
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    Adey Chaplin
    President adeychaplin.com Adey was president during the 2011-2012 academic school year. She is also a graduate of CDIA focusing in Web Design.  During her time as president she was very involved in the student community and helped start the biggest AIGA GMU design competition known as “Design Battle!” She has also interned at Viget Labs [...]
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    Andrew Curtis
    Production Coordinator ahcurtis.com Andrew was apart of AIGA GMU from 2010 to 2012 as the Production Coordinator. He helped bring student designers on to do real world projects for Design Firm. He also helped plan and participate in a lot of SoA community events. He has worked at places such as SOA Print, XO Communications [...]
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    Vinh Le
    Web Officer vinhdesigns.com Vinh has been a high contributor to AIGA GMU by designing collateral and updating our website. He has also created lots of promotion video for our events such as design battle. He is currently a creative director for Eden Center and a freelance web designer as well.
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