Stephen Rice

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.

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.

This is a teaser trailer for a documentary I am currently filming about the Do-it-Yourself music of Seattle. As a long time supporter of local music, I have challenged myself with capturing the essence of community and creativity that are the foundations of the artists of Seattle. 

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.

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! 

This project is an interactive visualization of the one hundred greatest books ever written. Emphasizing location and date, this program (written in Processing) allows users to notice trends in both location in date as they move through the timeline or hover over specific countries

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.

This project was a simple freelance project for a movie review television program out of Utah. My client sought a simplified but equally powerful logo that could be more easily used across a wide variety of media. 

This project focused on my ability to create a specific tone and feel for a poster. We were also required to develop all of our own typography from scratch and thus use our hand-made letterforms to further push the tone of our design. By using water poured over wax, i was able to create a grungy, bar table that fit the tone of Titus Andronicus's punk rock, dive-bar friendly music.

This project tasked me with the redesign of my location’s employee name tags. The previous style struggled with contrast and it could be difficult to quickly see the team member’s name on the tag itself. The new design features more prominent contrast as well as a brighter and fresher appearance that speaks more to the brand and tone of Whole Foods Market.

During my time at Whole Foods, it was my responsibility to maintain marketing materials and covert them into a variety of print sizes and install them throughout my store. On other occasions, I would take existing brand assets and design unique signs and vinyl stickers and install them into unique structures to promote various price changes or marketing programs.