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Elizabeth City State University

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  • 1704 Weeksville Road
  • Elizabeth City, NC 27909
  • 252.335.3400
  • admissions@ecsu.edu

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Graphic Design Portfolio

Graphic Design

Examples of Student Work

Publications

Restaurant branding project for Happy Taco featuring a custom logo, menu system, and visual identity. The presentation includes a circular logo with vintage-inspired typography and a multi-page menu layout for an authentic Mexican food restaurant.
Magazine cover design for OBX Today featuring a sunset landscape with silhouetted trees and water. The cover highlights fall travel destinations, restaurants, and outdoor attractions in the Outer Banks, using bold editorial typography and photography.
Editorial magazine spread about designer Massimo Vignelli featuring a portrait, quotations, product photography, and a clean red-and-white layout. The design combines typography, imagery, and article content to highlight Vignelli’s design philosophy and work.
Event branding and publication design for Project Stigma, a nonprofit mental health awareness initiative. The presentation includes booklet spreads, event planning materials, logo development, marketing concepts, resources, promotional merchandise, and branding guidelines displayed in a multi-page layout.
Event branding and publication design for “Paddle the Pasquotank,” featuring a booklet mockup with kayaking imagery, event information pages, logo designs, color palette, promotional materials, merchandise concepts, and marketing collateral displayed across a multi-page layout.

Food Packaging

Brand identity and packaging design for Helio’s Snack Company featuring chocolate bar wrappers, snack packaging, and a branded delivery van. The design uses bold typography, bright orange and blue color palettes, and consistent branding across multiple product lines.
Chocolate bar packaging design for Helio’s featuring milk chocolate and white chocolate wrappers. The design uses bold typography, geometric accents, and contrasting brown and blue color palettes displayed on an orange background.
Informational infographic design using illustration, data visualization, and typography to communicate facts and misconceptions about pit bull breeds.
Cereal packaging and advertising campaign for Crunch Flakes featuring a blue product box design, nutritional branding, interactive quarantine-themed activities on the packaging, and a matching billboard advertisement. The project showcases packaging design, marketing concepts, and brand applications across multiple formats.
Beverage packaging design for Imi Ola strawberry lemonade featuring a six-pack carrier and glass bottle mockup. The branding uses a bright tropical color palette of pink, yellow, and orange with a rainbow-inspired logo, fruit illustrations, and the slogan “taste the tropics.”

Brand Lookbooks

Fashion retail brand identity project for ASOS featuring logo design, custom typography, color palette, packaging concepts, website mockups, advertising displays, gift cards, and magazine applications. The presentation showcases a cohesive visual identity applied across print, digital, and retail environments.
Brand concept presentation for Poshmark displaying logo variations, typography, color palette, website and mobile app mockups, event marketing materials, retail advertising, and branded packaging.
Brand identity presentation for Blue Note featuring a blue-and-gray logo, typography, color palette, album artwork, mobile app icon, merchandise, website mockup, and outdoor advertising applications.
Brand identity system for North Carolina State Parks featuring logo design, typography, color palette, apparel, promotional materials, vehicle graphics, website concepts, signage, brochures, and branded merchandise. The project demonstrates a unified visual identity across multiple print and digital touchpoints.

Stationery

Wedding stationery suite featuring a floral-themed invitation, RSVP card, details card, envelopes, and a decorative wax seal. The design uses soft floral illustrations, elegant script typography, and neutral-toned paper materials.
Custom wedding stationery suite featuring an invitation, RSVP card, details card, and coordinating envelopes. The design incorporates blue paper stock, decorative scrollwork, patterned envelope liners, and elegant script typography.
Elegant wedding invitation suite featuring a translucent invitation wrapped with a gold ribbon, coordinating floral-patterned envelope, RSVP card, and event details card. The design uses soft neutral tones, delicate botanical illustrations, and refined typography.
Corporate stationery mockup for Galloway Graphics featuring a letterhead, business cards, envelope, folded brochure, pencils, and branded office materials. The design uses a blue-and-white color palette with a clean, professional visual identity.
Wedding invitation suite inspired by music and vinyl records, featuring a layered invitation package tied with a black ribbon, custom RSVP cards, song request cards designed to resemble compact discs, and coordinating inserts in navy, white, and light blue.
Rustic wedding stationery set featuring a save-the-date card, RSVP card, kraft-paper backing, twine closure, and handwritten-style typography. The design combines natural textures, neutral colors, and minimalist layouts.
Wedding stationery collection featuring an invitation, RSVP card, details card, envelope, place card, and thank-you card. The design uses metallic gold typography, soft neutral tones, and coordinated print materials displayed as a complete wedding suite.
Holiday greeting card design featuring decorative illustrations of ornaments, holly, pine branches, and festive typography reading “Merry Christmas.” The presentation includes a card mockup, front design, and interior message layout.
Wedding invitation suite featuring a coastal theme with lighthouse and ocean wave illustrations. The design includes a fold-out invitation, RSVP card, mailing pieces, accommodation information, menu selections, and event details presented in a blue-and-white color palette on a wood-textured background.

Event Flyers

Illustrated concert poster for Joji featuring a stylized portrait rendered in red and black tones against a smoky purple background. The poster advertises a live performance at The NorVa on November 22, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.
Promotional poster for the exhibition Almost Now: Cuban Art, Cinema, & Politics in the 1960s and 1970s. The design features a stylized illustrated rooster with patterned textures and vibrant colors alongside exhibition dates and location information for Elizabeth City State University.
Promotional concert poster featuring a stylized portrait against a background of sheet music and floral accents. The poster advertises a Ramin Djawadi performance in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on January 20, 2022, at 8:00 p.m., using a blue, black, and gray color palette.
Illustrated concert poster featuring stylized portraits against a graffiti-inspired background with bold neon typography. The poster advertises a J-Hope performance at the Mickey L. Burnim Fine Arts Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on February 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Poster design for the ECSU Department of Music and Visual Arts Senior Show featuring a geometric layout with blue, gray, and black design elements. The poster includes participating student names, the title “Senior Show,” and event details for April 28, 2022, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Font Graphics

Typography poster exploring the Didot typeface, featuring a high-contrast black-and-white layout with oversized letterforms, decorative graphic elements, historical information about Firmin Didot, and examples of the typeface’s characteristics and anatomy.
Typography poster highlighting the Bauhaus typeface and design movement. The composition uses geometric shapes, primary colors, bold lettering, alphabet samples, and historical information about Herbert Bayer and the development of Bauhaus typography.
Typography poster exploring the Baskerville typeface, featuring oversized letterforms, historical information about John Baskerville, alphabet specimens, and examples of the font’s distinctive curves and stroke contrast in a minimalist red, black, and gray layout.
Typography poster exploring the Avenir typeface by Adrian Frutiger. The design features letterforms, font weights, character samples, and descriptive text arranged over colorful geometric shapes in a modern, layered composition.
Custom typeface presentation for “Narrowmind,” showcasing serif and sans-serif font families. The design includes alphabet specimens, typography samples, and mockups demonstrating the fonts in printed layouts and sketchbook applications.
Typeface specimen poster for Nameloc Sans, a font family designed by Coleman Hardee. The layout displays regular, italic, bold, bold italic, extra bold, and extra bold italic styles using sample text to demonstrate the typeface's visual characteristics.
Custom serif typeface specimen displaying uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numerals. The design showcases elegant high-contrast letterforms with decorative curves, thin strokes, and refined typography on a minimalist background.

Infographic

Educational infographic titled “Perfect Pasta Pairing” that matches pasta shapes with recommended sauce types. The design compares long noodles, shells, ribbons, spirals, and tubular pasta with sauces such as tomato, creamy, chunky, meaty, and hearty options using illustrated pasta examples and color-coded categories.
Educational infographic titled “The Truth About Pitbulls” presenting common myths and facts about pit bull breeds. The design includes a dog silhouette, informational callouts, breed comparisons, statistical charts, and general information about temperament, size, weight, and life expectancy.
Informational infographic explaining Pantone's Color of the Year program. The design uses illustrations, icons, timelines, and diagrams to show how color trends are identified and applied across industries such as fashion, graphic design, home décor, and product packaging.

CD Covers

CD packaging design for Mix Ups by The Formal featuring a hand-drawn portrait illustration, expressive typography, and blue and purple abstract wave patterns. The project includes front and back album covers and a coordinating disc design.
Album packaging design for Dynasty by Smooch featuring illustrated cover art inspired by glam rock aesthetics, custom typography, CD case layouts, track listing, and a coordinating disc design. The project includes front and back covers and branded music packaging elements.
Album package design for Monsta X featuring front and back CD artwork, a compact disc design, and a blue-toned visual theme inspired by ink suspended in water and floral elements.

Miscellaneous

Collection of four macro photographs featuring close-up views of natural and everyday subjects, including a textured flower cluster, colored pencils, a leaf, and heart-shaped stones. The images emphasize detail, color, texture, and shallow depth of field.
Esports logo design for Elizabeth City State University Vikings Esports featuring a stylized Viking helmet icon in blue, white, and gray. The presentation shows both a full logo lockup with typography and a standalone mascot mark.