About
Hand-bound book exploring Virgo, the brightest constellation in the night sky.
Featuring hand-painted brush strokes, translucent vellum pages, and a Japanese stab binding.
POLITICAL MAILERS
About
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) and NCAAT in Action are organizations building power for a more inclusive democracy built by drawing on the strength of diverse traditions, common values and community togetherness. They envision a socially conscious and informed society that integrates greater participation and representation by Asian Americans. They believe that for such a society to exist we must work within a cross-racial, cross-ethnic framework focused on grassroots power and solidarity.
Objective
A series of printed mailers and infographics for the 2022 elections to raise voter engagement within the Asian American community.
The challenge NCAAT and NCAAT in Action presented was to against the grain of what traditional political mail looks like. We focused on vibrant colors and a whimsical design that prioritized diverse representation of Asian Americans not typically seen. Working with two organizations meant ensuring that the branding and messaging of each was accurate, and highly tailored to deliver eye-catching results.
Design Skills
HelloPaint
MISSION
HelloPaint, iScribble + malmal.io 2.0, connects the world's digital artists through a universal drawing platform and the ability to effortlessly collaborate together.
At its heart, HelloPaint is a platform that combines a powerful drawing software with community where digital artists from around the world can create alongside each other simultaneously, drawing on the same canvas.
You can even think of HelloPaint like the “Google-Docs” for artists.
With new features, contests, tools, and tutorials, HelloPaint provides a space to explore digital painting while meeting new friends and building community.
HISTORY
TWELVE YEARS AGO…
Téa stumbled upon iScribble as a young artist exploring the digital art scene. As a teen, iScribble became her community, where she spent hundreds of hours online learning from other artists and collaborating on artwork. After news of iScribble's closing in 2018 due to outdated tech, she acquired the platform with the mission to bring back collaborative drawing to the online art community she loves so much.
SUCCESSFUL SUPPORT
After recruiting a technical cofounder, reviving the community, preserving over 100,000+ digital artworks from as early as 2006, and rebranding iScribble into HelloPaint, the successor of iScribble and malmal, Blumer led a marketing campaign in winter of 2020 to kickstarter HelloPaint.
SKILLS
DESIGN
INTERPERSONAL + CHARACTER
Leadership + Initiative
Project Management
Communication + Conflict Resolution
Community Building
Collaboration
DÉJÀ VU
About
A2W is an educational event where students gain experience by coordinating and producing an annual fashion show. Young designers are challenged to imagine, create, and inspire by expressing their point of view through wearable art. A2W attracts approximately 1,000 attendees in addition to encouraging participation by engaging the student body, the Raleigh community, and the broader design industry.
VISION
A2W’s vision is to challenge our audience and designers to question the boundaries and conventional definitions of “fashion." We seek to explore new fashion ground and create new design pathways by encouraging our designers to blend their technical skill with innovative technology.
SKILLS
DESIGN
INTERPERSONAL + CHARACTER
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Project Management
Public Speaking
“FASHION” AS DEFINED BY A2W
A product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity (including but not limited to social class, religion, and ethnicity), starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering.
BEYOND CURIE
VISION
— Beyond Curie is a design project that highlights badass women in science, technology, engineering + mathematics.
Inspired by and created in partnership with Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya my team at Laber Labs published an augmented reality app bringing the poster series to life for its exhibition at The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. By using the Beyond Curie augmented reality app, museum visitors could see beautiful 3-D animations hidden inside some of the portraits.
Our augmented reality animations can be seen using a free mobile app called "Beyond Curie" available on Google Play and the App Store.
To enrich our partnership beyond our augmented reality app, we created an additional series of posters celebrating women in STEM from North Carolina State University. We researched, designed, and iterated upon visual posters embodying the style of Phingbodhipakkiya’s work.
Calendar Girl
About
Through a series of compositions this booklet explores relationships between seemingly unrelated elements. It is centered around the female figure and depicts images rendered in several characteristic styles. The text accompanying the women is comprised of fragments taken from the Birds of the Eastern Forest describing them as if an untamed creature. The compositions grow increasingly dark as the booklet progresses into the late winter months.
Composed solely of illustrated, painted, and drawn components sourced from books at North Carolina State University Libraries.
Alphonse Mucha: the complete posters and panels (1983)
Pin-up dreams: the glamour art of Rolf Armstrong (2001)
Calendar girl: sweet & sext pin-ups of the postwar era (2003)
J.C Leyendecker: American imagist (2008)
The art of Robert E. McGinnis (2014)
Jeremy Mann (2015)
Birds of the eastern forest (1970)
Design Skills
ARNO PRO POSTER SERIES
An artistic exploration of the font, Arno Pro, and its type variations
Design SKILLS
PRISM
About
A student-led, annually recurring exhibition at North Carolina State University for the Art + Design graduating class. Through the coursework leading up to the exhibition students analyze the history of their individual processes of ideation and design, examine present expressions of their work and explore possibilities for future implementation.
Responsibilities
As class-nominated project manager, Téa organized and managed seven committees responsible for fundraising, marketing, branding, graphic design, exhibition design, photography and publishing. In addition to her leadership as manager, Téa initiated and helped design the Senior Show Catalog-- an unprecedented adjunct project celebrating each of her fellow students work.
Catalog Specifications
250 copies, 7 x 9 inch, 64 page, glossy finish, perfect-bound
INTERPERSONAL + CHARACTER
Leadership + Initiative
Project Management
Communication + Conflict Resolution
Community Building
Collaboration
