MARIA RODAS

Digital Graphic Designer who is detail-oriented, organized and a meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills and experience working on a large team for a re-branding project for a leading media agency.

• I am a third year Graphic Design Student at Santa Monica College. I'm ambitious, hardworking, honest, and self motivated. I'm creative and positive by nature and bring both of those strengths into my designs.
• English as a Second Language Award
• Freedman & Friends Academic Scholarship

Era of Design Poster 

• Designed and created an event poster, highlighting the work and life of designer Wes Wilson
• Using Adobe CC, I designed a psychedelic style poster in honor of Wes Wilson, editing photography in Adobe Photoshop and using InDesign to create the layout, typefaces, and color scheme.
• I love color and positivity in my work. Choosing a graphic design artist from the 1960's era was the perfect choice. I enjoy using bright colors and connect with many of the unique typefaces from that era of design.

SMC Mobile App Case Study

• I was tasked to examine and decide where the current SMC Go App could be improved. I concluded that the app could benefit from allowing users to have more customization and a user dashboard, specific to each user.
• I did research in the form of a case study, by using many standard processes of research. I started by building a timeline, completed heuristic evaluations, user interviews, created personas and built out wireframes and prototypes.
• The result of my project turned out very positive and beat my original expectations. I built out an app prototype that allowed users to customize their landing page with numerous popular apps used on a daily basis to work along side their SMC profile.

Typography Font Poster & Explanation Design

• I chose the typeface, "Trajan".
• I used Adobe InDesign to showcase the "Trajan" font in many sizes and families. I researched popular places where it has been used and the history of when and who designed it.
• The result was a beautiful poster, designed using bi-lateral and dilatational typographic systems.