Research Design at the University of Virginia
Office of the Vice President for Research
Organometallics Cover Design
ACS Publications
Volume 43, Issue 7 | April 8, 2024
A Chemistry lab at UVA was selected to be featured as the cover story in Organometallics, an American Chemistry Society Publication. I worked with them to create a cover design that would highlight their research.
A design challenges was to ensure no mistakes were made in the artwork that misrepresented the chemistry work. I worked with the researchers to understand the context of their work and specify appropriate terms and visuals that someone outside the field might overlook, but would be jarring to those reading this highly specialized research.
2023 Annual Research Report
Annual Report Design
This annual report was created to highlight innovative research happening across UVA in 2023. This was the first Annual Report created for the VPR office with the goal to draw more attention to all areas of research at UVA. I oversaw and executed this publication from design brainstorm to printing production (the process took around 6 months).
2023 Research Calendar
As a giveaway for the Research Achievement Awards, I designed a desktop calendar to highlight research from the 12 schools at UVA. I was involved from design conception, sourcing printers, image and content sourcing, to final production. This was positively received by the research community and hopes to be a recurring feature.
Hoos in STEM
Podcast artwork design & digital assets
Partnering with Ken Ono, STEM advisor to the Provost, I created art for his new podcast, Hoos in STEM. The goal was to create a design that showed innovation, did not limit the content to be discussed on the podcast, and relate it back to UVA. I used abstract geometric shapes to represent parts of STEM. I also made versions of the art that can be used on all applicable social media platforms to promote the podcast (Spotify, X, LinkedIn, Profile avatars, Youtube, Instagram, etc). Learn more about the podcast here.
2022 Research Achievement Awards
Winter 2023
Celebrating and honoring top Researchers from 2022, the Research Achievement Awards is the biggest event the Office for the Vice President for Research puts on. Below is the visual branding for the event and the giveaways created to celebrate the guests.
Materials for the event included a Program, name tags, event signage, photo backdrop, digital invitation, video, and certificates for award winners.
Giveaways were calendar to highlight research from 12 schools at UVA over 12 months, a seed packet with metaphor of growing research at UVA, and sticky notes with UVA Research logo.
Left Clockwise: Program, Calendar, Seed Packet, Sticky notes, & Varsity Hall Custom Stationary