Digital Design
Plugged In
A self-portrait collage: everything I love spilling out of my head and into the laptop — the charger cable spelling my name on the way down.
Every photograph and element in this piece is my own work, shot and edited together into one composition. I am holding the laptop while the things I love most, photographs of the people close to me, a stuffed bunny, paintbrushes, Scrabble tiles, a Zeta fundraiser board, float from my head into the screen. The concept is that my creativity comes from what I love and is what feeds my digital work and my art. The charger cable running from my head into the computer carries that same idea, curving into the shape of my name on the way.
Objective
Show, visually, that personal experience is the raw material of design — that what I make comes from where I come from.
Concept
A collage built as a single flow: from head, to cable, to screen. Personal photographs sit alongside ordinary objects and hand-made lettering against a denim blue field, so the piece reads like a thought process made tangible.
Outcome
A densely layered typographic collage that ties self-portrait, personal archive and process into one image.