Concept Art & Development
CreateSpace
Savannah’s First Indoor-Only Children’s Museum
I coordinated with museum board to finalize concepts for CreateSpace by compiling their favorite student-generated ideas into a cohesive vision that will fit into a 20,000 square-foot strip mall department store. While visually developing interactive activities for seven distinct play zones, I used SketchUp to 3D model the overall layout and then Photoshop to render the spaces and create key concept art.
GUEST PERSONAS: CHILDREN AGES 2-12, with different zones tailored to different age groups (e.g. Kinder-Garden is ideal for toddlers and their families while the Energy Lab would appeal to older, independent kids)
The STEAMpunk Factory
Unlock Mechanical Wonders through the Power of STEAM
Created for THED 730: Concept Design, this project is a proposed wing for a children’s museum. The steampunk theme appeals to children’s imaginations, offers opportunities for scientific exploration, and is a play on words for STEAM, the educational acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math.
GUEST PERSONAS: CHILDREN AGES 6-11 | SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS
Trek Quest
A U.S.S. Enterprise Experience
Created for my final thesis at SCAD. When guests step aboard this U.S.S. Enterprise-themed resort, they can boldly go on space-set rides and attractions, relax during shore leave on a tropical planet, or play a resort-wide, “alien of the week”-type game that culminates, as all the best Trek episodes do, in an ethical conundrum.*
GUEST PERSONAS: TREKKERS OF ALL AGES | CON ENTHUSIASTS | LARP CLUBS | PROUDLY “NERDY” COUPLES, FAMILIES, & FRIEND GROUPS
*Please note that, as a student, I am allowed to use IP for educational purposes. I do not claim to own the rights to Star Trek.
Gossamer Grove
Traverse a Fae Realm Full of Magic & Comfort
Created for Storyland Studio’s 2024 Design Challenge, this shopping district acts as a fun yet calming option for guests drained by thrills-forward themed entertainment venues. Read my research-based argument for why we need relaxing themed entertainment here.
GUEST PERSONAS: YOUNG & NEW ADULTS SEEKING UNIQUE THIRD SPACES | REMOTE EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS LOOKING FOR RELAXING PLACES TO WORK | FAMILIES
My team created this retail park for Storyland’s 2024 design challenge. View our full process book here, which includes work by my collaborators McKenna Kreiling, Sofia Munoz, and Sasha Raskin. In addition to project managing this concept, I created the key concept art, wrote the backstories and story treatment, designed the scavenger hunt, drew the characters, 3D modeled five of the structures in SketchUp, and edited the renders in Photoshop.
