Graphic work samples: Pallavi Damera's Portfolio

1. Learning ABCs of Visual design

Shown below are some samples of various assignments done at NID that helped me learn some of the visual design principles. These assignments helped me understand the mechanics of creating a visual that clearly communicates the idea, to create meaning through color, shapes and composition.

1, 2, 4 : Compositions on Rythm; 3: on Contrast; 5, 6: Typography with reed pen; 7: Typography composition

1: Color and typography; 2: Color and space

1, 2: Color and meaning; 3: Color wheel, Tints, Shades and Grey scale.

Seeing with hands: This assignment was to help us get more sensitive to the shapes and textures of objects. We felt the plastic toy frog in a bag without seeing it and then created clay models of it based on what we perceived the frog to be my touch.

Animation: to teach substraction

This is an animation that tells the story of 3 kids planning for a summer picnic. It teaches them the concepts of borrowing and subtracting. This is a group project and my role was to create script, story boarding, testing the script with students and few background animations. For more details please see the process document.

2. Information Visualization: Village as a System

This is a group project. In this project we've done multiple field studies to understand various systems and their interdependencies of a village. Then we came up with a visualization to represent all the systems. The metaphor we chose for the visualization was a buffalo which is one of the central element of their economy.

3.Web development samples

These are my coding deliverables for web technologies course INFO343 at UW.

In these samples shown above:

I styled the webpages using css. Created 2 prototypes for Tsunami center at University of Washington emulating Mark Boulton's design and Jon Tangerine's design.
Developed an interoperable Web page by writing valid xHTML.
Included rich snippets in webpages and validated it for RDFa.