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Ben Hannam
2009 Holiday Promotional Piece
This holiday promotional piece was created out of cardboard mailing tubes and contains ingredients for recipients to make a hot German mulled wine called Gluvine.
College of Architecture Website
This content management system website was designed for the College of Architecture & Urban Studies at Virginia Tech—this client had a unique set of constraints.
Viral Poster Campaign
While helping lead a study abroad program in Istanbul, Turkey I created a series of viral posters to promote two upcoming designers, Mustafa Tunc and Devrim Akbas.
Self-Promotional Card
This card features an animation that is triggered by opening the card. This piece has been featured in several books and won numerous awards.
Two-Minute Film Festival Poster
This is a poster from the Two-Minute Film Festival at Virginia Tech. We raised over $2700 to give away in prize money for the second annual community film festival.
Four-Minute Film Festival
The Four-Minute Film Festival and Two-Minute Film Festival were competitions I created to engage our community and encourage an appreciation for film.
Tasmeem Doha Website
This website was a website for an annual design conference. It can be viewed in English or Arabic and has been featured in Type in Motion 2 and Color Management.
VCU Qatar Fashion Show
The VCU Qatar Fashion show is an event attended often attended by significant players in the fashion industry, I designed their print and collateral material.
Reflections on the Season
This is a self-promotional piece I worked on at Davis Mick Design. It won a Gold Addy and the H.C. Packett Award for Creative Excellence.
Davis Mick Design Letterhead
I helped Creative Director, Sandra Davis Mick, create letterhead for Davis Mick Design while working for her agency. This piece won a Neenah Gold Paper Award.
Self-Portrait: Homeless
I gave myself a tight set of constraints and put myself in the uncomfortable position of becoming homeless to get an authentic image of homelessness.
Spun Earth Pottery
I worked at Spun Earth Pottery Studio with Pat Lester, helping her create beautiful handcrafted pottery, votives, decorative bowls and lamps.
Students
Will Wan Website
Will Wan spent some time working on Barak Obama’s presidential campaign and was later offered a White House internship. Will built a website to showcase his work.
Typographic Illustration
This is a typographic illustration project completed in Typography I. Students are asked to take a word and deepen our understanding of it through typography.
Design Guru Poster Series
Intro to Graphic Design students chose their favorite designers and created a poster series for a fictitious exhibition at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke, Va.
Typographic Tattoo
Students were asked to design a tattoo and place it somewhere on their bodies. The typeface, location and message are critical components to this typography exercise.
Senior Portfolio Review Poster
Ben McDonald created this poster to announce Senior Portfolio Reviews with Olivia Cook and Brad Soroka for Advanced Visual Communication Design.
iPhone Application
Students in Intermediate Interactive Design created an iPhone application based on a childhood game called M.A.S.H. (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House).
Kinetic Icon
This project was designed to make students to think about the aspect of time as a component to graphic design. Michelle explored the NCCA cotton brand.
Mr. Jones
This is a typeface created by Richard Miller in an independent study class. Richard’s font was listed as one of the hot new fonts of 2009 on the myfonts.com website.
Glenn Sorrentino Movie
Students in Electronic Portfolio were asked to identify their plans after college and create a short movie that would help focus the goals of their self-promotional website.
Glenn Sorrentino Website
Glenn’s aim was to create a website for himself that could be easily updated and help him find a job in web design.
iPod & Flash Tutorials
I received an Educational Technology grant and I created a series of Flash tutorials and distributed iPods videos to my class. Here is a tutorial that Nate put together in my class.
Typographic Magic
Students in Typography I were asked to explore three-dimensional typography and make their type perform a magic act. Their results were displayed stereoscopically.