From Concept to Execution: JWU Senior Design Portfolio Review

Each term, Graphic Design & Digital Media students at JWU Providence’s School of Engineering & Design show off their design chops at a portfolio review.

Design professor Karyn Jimenez-Elliot captured their wide range of impressive work, from concept sketches to logos, identity systems and complete websites. (View her complete Flickr gallery here.)

Each student had a chance to talk about his or her creative process and present a selection of favorite work. The student designers are:

• Sean Andrews
• Jesse Beckerman
• Briana Charbonneau
• Taylor DellaPenna
• Genevieve Dugan
• Andrea Fish
• Keegan Hernandez
• Yessenia Jaime
• Alex Lebon
• Stephanie Lopez
• Craig Nelson
• Leeana Nito
• Kendall Peterkin
• Jiana Salvatore
• Kadijah Smallwood
• Emily Teter
• Zachariah Vickers
• Christopher Wynn
• Kristopher Zurwell

There was plenty of ambitious work on display, including a complete identity system for Providence Parks (Cammie Niles, Emily Teter and Larren Witter), and a nontraditional tourism campaign for a traditional Tennessee whiskey company, Buckwood (Taylor DellaPenna).

Craig Nelson gave himself a unique challenge: To improve his ideation, branding and time management skills, he gave himself one hour a day to create a fictional brand and a companion logo. “The project helped me explore and experiment with color, type, illustration and iconography like I have never done before.”

Craig also collaborated with his classmates Travis Thurston and Andrea Fish on a stop-motion animation video for JWU Counseling Services.

ALL PHOTOS BY JWU PROVIDENCE DESIGN PROFESSOR KARYN JIMENEZ-ELLIOTT