design by Lynn Priestley.

design

work

graphic, web, audio/video

preface

current projects

The projects (including logo design and web design) I am currently working on are still in progress, so post-grad work pieces will be posted in a future portfolio site update.

student projects

I often use GitHub repositories to track my progress with projects or to host final project files and comments. Feel free to click on the repository links below the images to explore my project repositories and find screenshots, research notes, and asset credits.

In addition to my portfolio pieces, I also coded this website. Go to my portfolio website repository to see how it evolved here.

The links directly below allow you to skip around my portfolio based on project type:

graphic design

Steel blue and gray palette flier advertising disability studies courses offered in spring 2022 by Pitt. Imagery includes non-functional Braille translation of "Disability Studies Courses" below the flier title, and accessibility icons that have been edited to be in theme with the course they are near. For example, the wheel of a wheelchair user icon has been turned into a film reel for the Disability in Film & TV class. repository.
Flier advertising fake art club DIY totebag event. The color palette is largely warm browns and gold, with the background image being of two blank totebags. In the foreground, a hand holding two paintbrushes hovers, ready to paint. repository.
Cover for a zine titled "Body Language", about body norms. The cover is in graysclae, with several line art bodies of different ability/disability statuses. In the background, there is a faint impression of the bell curve. archive site. repository.
Poster advocating for designing with rather than designing for. Background is made up of a pattern of icon bodies with different ability/disability statues. The palette is largely blues, but the text "DESIGN WITH" stands out in bright red. repository.
Bee-themed poster showing elements of typography, in a golden honey color palette. Hexagons and a few black and white illustrations of bees sprinkle the page, making the layout feel dynamic/asymmetrical. repository.
First 3 out of 5 panels of an Instagram ad story for fake coffee shop. Imagery used for all five frames is warm, high quality photos of different coffee drinks, giving a trendy, hipster coffee shop feel. Remaining 2 panels of an Instagram ad story for fake coffee shop repository.
Spread for fake baking magazine about making cookie dough. The spread is minimalistic, with headers in a playful but neat handwritten font. High quality images of cookies and cookie dough play with negative space in inverse ways across the two pages. repository.
Series of three postcard advertsing different Wisconsion fruit growers' associations. The taglines are snarky and themed to the specific fruit of each card, which is featured in a photo to the right of each card, being held by two hands. repository.
Poster with Paula Scher quote about having to get bad in order to get good. The background image is of concrete steps, with the typography sitting on the steps. The words mimic the quote, with 'you have to get bad' being super messy and 'in order to get good' being super ordered and precise. repository.
Fake cover for a magazine called "Spoonie Press" about chronic illness. The R in "Press" is a prescription Rx symbol. A grayscale hand holds up a small pill filled with spoons as the cover image. repository.
Fake advertisment for a documentary called "Techknowledgment", now streaming on "Notflix". The poster has a teal background with illustrations of increasingly advanced tech being used as stairs by abstract bodies. repository.

website projects

Screenshot of website having an existential crisis. A small robotic face greets the user, saying "I am glad you found me. I am not sure how much time I have left." website. repository.
Screenshot of pink, red, and black website designed for bookstore-cafe called "Loose Leaf." The page content appears to be being typed by a typewriter at the bottom of the frame.

[caution: typing animation at the top of the website.]

repository.

video and audio projects

video description:

Coding process for a simulator of Foucault’s panopticon, done in Mu (a developing environment with a white background and black text). Suspenseful techno music plays in the background, occasionally trading off for a clacky keyboard. At times, the normal black and white will shift to X-ray-type filter, to illustrate certain crucial lines of code that underlie the Panopticon's function. At the end, the code is run. A high-pitched beep sounds with each decision made by the player, sounding faster and faster to show the inescapability of the Panopticon.

repository.

audio description:

Soundscape playing on the idea of a literal train of thought. It starts with a study session, before fading into the fantastical representation of this train of thought. The guiding voice comes through a PA system, welcoming “passing thoughts”. Stops include “rationalization station” (for Worries to be processed), and “inclination station” (for Impulse Thoughts to be acted on). The train ride, however, is soon interrupted by a Brainstorm. This fades out as we return to our real-life study session, the sounds of keyboard clacking more intense as the brainstorm kicks in.

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