In collaboration with the Social Emotional Learning team at Seattle public schools, my colleague and I developed a pair of animated videos to be shared in classrooms to help teach grade school students about personal boundaries and handling rejection.
Design began with the creation of a set of characters that represent the full spectrum of community members and students within the city of Seattle. Inclusion and representation would continue to be at the forefront of both the video’s script and the accompanying animations. The choice to use student voices we believe makes the video’s content more approachable for it’s younger audience; Less like a lecture and more like a conversation with a friend.
Boundaries
Handling Rejection: When Someone Says No
Puberty & You Video
In 2020, my team and I developed a new sexual education and puberty video for SPS (Seattle Public Schools) elementary and middle schools. This new vesion incorporated updated more inclusivelanguage, a more comprehensive list of topics, and a fresh visual style that helps make the content more approachable for the student audience.
My colleagues and I developed the visual style, filmed the content expert, created all visual graphics and animations, and did the final edits and production on the finished piece.
To date, the video is now used throughout the state of Washington and is even used in select school districts in other states across America.
Puberty & You
SPS Department Logos
Seattle Public Schools Style Guide
Whole Foods Brew Guide
A redesign of a guide on how to brew different kinds of coffee and tea for the benefit of customers. I wanted to create a clean and colorful guide that would feel inviting for customers while remaining coherent and easy to read.
Colour Palette
The Diminished Fifth Magazine
This project tasked me with the development of the inaugural issue of a new magazine. I have always had a passion for underground music, particularly underground metal, and chose to create a publication focusing on the artistic and creative side of this music. Metal has a strong outward brand already and it was a challenge to create a magazine that stayed true to this persona while highlighting the more artistic side of the genre. Instead of focusing on the literal music of metal, i delved into the creative minds of the artists and what the genre offers that other genres of music cannot deliver.
Video Story Telling
The first video focuses on the dramatic change of appearance a haircut can have on someone. I time-lapsed stop-motion photography to speed up the process and have the man's hair disappear in under a minute.
The second video was made to illustrate the a day in the life of my younger brother Jonathan during his army deployment in Afghanistan. I chose to film myself performing my own morning routine in order to create a deeper contrast in just how rugged and alien of a life he was living in the Middle East.
Time for a Change video
A Day in the Life of SPC Jon Rice
Bloom Thermostat
With the advent of a more environmentally conscious society, I strove to design a thermostat interface that would help the modern household not only save money or their electric or gas bill, but to also promote a more environmentally friendly home through the reduction of energy usage. Bloom's interface is designed to be intuitive, descriptive, and engaging in ways that the average thermostat falls short.
Bloom was the final name given to this thermostat design. As a design focused on a "greener" and more energy efficient usage of one's heating system, this name convokes an association with nature and a hopeful perspective on things to come.
Users who wish to set a temperature in their homes simply create two points on the touch screen designating when they want this temperature to begin and end and then drag upwards to the desired temperature.
Bloom will alert the user when they are setting a temperature that is either too hot or too cold to be energy efficient in the current weather. This will help users to make informed decisions as they set their thermostat on the go.
Tapping the House icon will bring out a dropdown menu with access to the other tools on the thermostat.
The Scheduling page will allow users to build week long thermostat schedules that will run automatically without further input needed by the users. This is helpful for users who live consistent schedules and do not wish to be constantly interacting with their thermostats.
The Financial page will allow the user to not only see previous energy bills in a timeline, but also to see what their current bill is at before they receive it. One can use this page to make informed decisions for the rest of the month and ultimately save more money and use less energy in the future.
The mobile page would allow users to sync their device or Tablet app with a mobile phone. Users can then access their thermostats remotely, allowing more flexible temperature control and more extensive access to their thermostats.
Above are a set of weather icons that would appear next to the outdoor temperatures.
Trail Dangers Symbol Set
These symbols were designed to give hikers more info on what to expect on different back-country trails . Many trail signs currently only have mileage listed and this offers very little information about the real challenges one might face. A seven mile trail may seem easier than a ten miler trail, but not if the seven mile trail has multiple water crossings and is all up hill!