Monica Ray
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  • Chicago Coalition for the Homeless We were given a Chicago based non-profit of our choice, that had little to no branding and had to rebrand them from scratch. I chose the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and was able to interview some of its Speakers Bureau.

    The Speakers Bureau is a group of formerly homeless individuals who share their stories with students and other groups to educate the public about the complications that lead to homelessness.

    It was a wonderful learning experience, as well as a fun time designing their pamphlet!

    http://www.chicagohomeless.org
        2012 Branding, Copywriting, Graphic Design
  • Fun with Type Typography is the solution to any design problem, and when I get the chance to make interesting things, I take them! I'm an obsessive doodler and I love designing things that I'd be proud to wear or hang up in my home.

    I experiment across all kinds of different mediums. These are examples of typography items I've made that are either for sale, on my bookshelf, or used as leave-behinds.
        2012 Cartooning, Graphic Design, Illustration
  • Global Brigades DePaul Chapter I traveled to Zurzular, Honduras with the Global Brigades in 2010. Our objective was to help build a school in the secluded mountain community to offer the children there education past grammar school.

    Afterwards I stayed active in the group, and they contacted me to do some new branding. These are a few pieces of their print materials that were distributed throughout the year.
        2012 Graphic Design
  • Illustrations I was originally going to be a comic artist, and while it's not my area of study I still pursue it every day with illustrations and my weekly webcomic, Phuzzy Comics.

    Bright colors and illustration, that's what I'm all about!
        2012 Illustration
  • IDGAF University This was a late-night experiment in logo design. I had reached a point in my academic career where I succumbed to senioritis, like so many of my peers before me. We tossed around the idea of a school dedicated to teaching students the common art of giving no fucks. And hey, we got a logo out of it! All we need now is to be recognized by the national board of education as an accredited university.     2012 Illustration, Graphic Design
  • This House Part of my student work from DePaul University. This was a typography and book formatting project where we were given free range to create content that was a guide through an area, thought, or feeling.

    I chose to make a guide through my apartment, in the form of a catalog. All things in my home are for sale to the right bidder.
        2012 Graphic Design, Photography
  • The Magic Test A personal project that I took beyond my Biomechanics 101 class and actually self-published. Our task was to incorporate the basics of physics into some creative media, and so I wrote a short childrens' book.     2012 Illustration
  • Imagine 2050 During my time as a camper in Camp Firebelly 2011, we were put on three projects to rebrand CNC, the Center for New Community. I was put on the Web Team, and we were tasked with redesigning their blog, imagine2050.com.

    We integrated our design with their CMS in place, Wordpress, and created a visually appealing design to help organize their abundant articles.

    http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/
        2012 User Interface Design, Web Design
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