Undergraduate Work Portfolio

Huy Nguyen

This photographic exhibit showcases my 12,645 km flight from Hô Chi Minh City to Little Saigon in San Jose, California. The exhibit is arranged to reflect the journey taken by me, starting with a wide shot of the Hô Chi Minh City landscape and transitioning into smaller shots of Little Saigon, where Vietnamese culture and cuisine have flourished for decades. The exhibit’s title, “The 12,645 km Journey,” emphasizes the distance traveled while also highlighting the idea that cultures and homes are created and nurtured wherever we may find ourselves.

Regina Grajo, Cindy Tran

This set of advertisements was submitted as a part of the final project for ADV 91 in Fall 2021. It features a fictitious alcoholic beverage brand, Native Due. Cindy Tran created the brand style guide and designed the logo and product mockups. Regina Grajo designed the advertisements. The product is featured in traditional advertisement channels, such as a billboard, magazine, and poster.

Brianne Badiola, Alexandra Hisen

Ideate for Change is a creative hackathon that challenges students to tackle real world issues over the course of three weeks. As a new event this year, Brianne and Alexandra were tasked with creating the branding identity, promotional assets, such as a poster and postcards, and social media strategy to build excitement for the event. The posters and postcards were hung around SJSU and nearby community college campuses. Brianne and Alexandra also tabled on campus to encourage sign-ups, resulting in 84 individual participants for the event. They also handled event planning, catering, and slideshow presentations for the overall event.

Brianne Badiola

"Life is beautiful" is a coffee table book, passion project, designed by Brianne. All images were taken by her as well using iPhone 13. The book was an experimentation as to how whitespace and layout composition could be could enhance a photo and the viewer's interpretation of the imagery.

Jasmine Shokoor

This stationary systems project was completed for Taufiquiand Rose Immobilien GmbH. This company specializes in real estate management in Hamburg, Germany. Their customers/audience are mostly German nationals that live abroad and have properties in Germany. For their logo, I used the outline of a roof with four windows with the letters T and R. This was the most aesthetically pleasing yet profesional-looking logo that highlights they are in the real estate market. I added their last names, “Taufiqui & Rose” under this logo as well to bring the identity of the owners. Throughout the stationary concept, I utilized colored variations of the logo on their website.

Cindy Tran

This mock out-of-home advertisement for Youth to the People was written and arranged by Cindy. Art direction and photography are credited to Up Close (byupclose.com). This project was an assignment for ADV 124, which was choosing a favorite brand and creating an ad with a body copy.

Caylee Tompkins

Inspired by the personality quiz trend present in the 90s and 2000s in mainstream publications such as Seventeen Magazine and Teen Vogue, I created a college-themed personality quiz for students in the Spring 2022 in addition of SJSU's Access Magazine. These stereotypical archtypes are intended to dramatize characteristics of common college-kid attitudes. I see myself in all of these profiles. Now let's see what type of college student you are! Find out by counting the colors of your answers to each question.