MY WORK
Studio: Collaborative Personal Project
Photographer: Ashley Seryn
Model: Hana Tyszka
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Driven by nostalgia, these fresh-cut apples challenge what we all heard as kids: don’t play with your food. By creating intricate and unique designs for each apple (and organizing a photoshoot around them), we pushed the idea of “playing with your food” to something more extreme; in doing so, we hope to encourage food as a playground for creativity.
Art Direction
Graphic Design
Project Management
Apple Cutting
Photo Assistance
Copywriting
Graphic Design
Project Management
Apple Cutting
Photo Assistance
Copywriting
MY WORK
Studio: Shimahara Visual
Client: N/A
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Over the past 25 years, Shimahara Visual has evolved into a full-service creative agency while staying true to their clients. Film, VR, and Digital Illustration have always been at their core, and with the addition of Branding, they now deliver fully integrated campaigns that unify strategy, identity, and visual execution. To celebrate this milestone, I curated and designed a 210-page portfolio, featuring 10 recent projects that showcase their breadth of capabilities—it is a look into our comprehensive, collaborative, and above all, beautiful work.
Art Direction
Graphic Design
Layout Design
Copywriting
Graphic Design
Layout Design
Copywriting
Studio: Shimahara Visual
Client: P4 Construction Management Design Inc.
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P4 are experts in design, construction, and management for both new developments and re-positioning projects. With client commitment and collaboration at the core of their ethos, we worked closely with them to craft a visual identity that reflects the sophistication and genuine character of their brand.
Brand Identity
Presentation Design
Brand Guidelines
Stationary
Presentation Design
Brand Guidelines
Stationary
Studio: Collaborative Personal Project
Client: Ashley Seryn and CAPE USA
In Collaboration With: Ezra Lee, Ashley Seryn, and Kaitlyn DeShon
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Show & Tell by Ashley Seryn in collaboration with CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with captivating photography and personal narratives from ten influential AAPI figures. Through film, polaroids, and handwritten accounts, the book invites readers to connect with the personal stories of these individuals through the objects they hold dear.
Design Assistance
Photoshoot Assistance
Copywriting
Editing
Photoshoot Assistance
Copywriting
Editing
Studio: Shimahara Visual
Client: United Construction Group
Website: radiawellness.com
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In a time when it’s difficult to prioritize yourself, Radia Wellness is dedicated to putting your needs first. By offering personalized and expert medical care within a welcoming and accessible space, they incorporate a holistic approach that begins with you. Their commitment to individual well-being radiates outwards, fostering a healthier, happier, and more connected community.
Informed by comprehensive stakeholder interviews and client feedback at every stage, we leveraged their existing thoughtful ethos to develop a visual and verbal identity that embodies their mission to be a community model for personalized, compassionate care.
Brand Strategy
Brand Identity
Copywriting
Website Design
Marketing Collateral
Brand Guidelines
Brand Identity
Copywriting
Website Design
Marketing Collateral
Brand Guidelines
Studio: Personal Work
Client: Seaglass Lens Magazine
Featured at: Such As, Gallery
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Collaboration with Nhi (@onehillion), Heymugi (@heymugi), and Sea Glass Lens (@seaglasslensmag) for the Nautilus Diaries edition of the Seaglass Lens Magazine,
a printed ocean inspired art book.
This piece playfully (or perhaps morbidly) references the ocean theme of Sea Glass Lens Magazine through sushi as my medium. Beyond the humor, however, it reflects my fascination with the comfort of childhood. In this work, I focused on thoughtfully designed bento box lunches as my object of nostalgia, and in doing so, I was compelled to add a message of gratitude to my mother—and all parents—who make childhood feel magical and whimsical. In keeping this piece authentic to myself and my heritage, I blended both Japanese and English: the two cultures and two languages that are crucial to who I am.
Graphic Design
Food Photography
Food Design
Copywriting
Food Photography
Food Design
Copywriting
24” x 30”
Show: Smash Showdown
Organizer: ATOC Projects, Homebody 626
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Idolatry explores my obsession with nostalgia. I love returning to my memories, worshiping a past through objects and imagery that remind me of my childhood self. Nowhere is this more obvious than in my room.
My room is a shrine to many idols, filled with posters and art and figures and books and toys (including Smash characters of course!) that all serve as a form of comfort through familiarity. It is a shrine to a childlike purity and imagination that I know I can’t return to, but I also recognize growing older isn’t inherently bad. Growing older opens up a new world, with new people, new encounters, new relationships, and new experiences that flourish with (not against) the passage of time. Growing older means to move forward, still carrying a sense of childlike wonder.
Graphite Pencil
Colored Pencil
Bristol Paper
Colored Pencil
Bristol Paper
Studio: Group Project for Technical Studio Class (Sarcophagus: Housing the Airstream w/Jason Payne)
In Collaboration With: Owen Bradbury-Aranda, Charley Andrews, and Daniel Refoua for UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
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“Taking as precedent the formal/spatial model found in early twentieth century airship hangars and their relationship to the objects they housed, this studio imagined nearly the same thing with just one difference: instead of the airship we considered the Airstream. From there, the design problem is that of a ‘hangar’ for an Airstream trailer, one that would prioritize in both form and function the life of the object within. “
Rendering
3D Modeling
Architectural Drawing
3D Modeling
Architectural Drawing
Studio: Group Project for Senior Studio (Common(s) Ground w/Mariana Ibañez)
In Collaboration With: Charley Andrews and Yelena Tamrazyan for UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
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“The Common(s) Ground Studio investigates the various forms of negotiation among individuals, the communities they belong to, and the private and public entities that regulate and participate in their spatial reality.”
Architecture exists as an ambiguous relationship between the part and the whole where reality obscures preconceived expectations. Instead of perceiving the whole, we only see fragments that then raise questions about scale, perspective, and program.
Tasked with encompassing multi-use spaces, different types of housing, and spaces to serve the community, our group created Topiaric Finds, a three floor, four million square foot structure nestled in the hills of Griffith Park.
Through this project we explore different scales of programming that reinforces the enormity of our structure, so that it’s true shape and size is left ambiguous when viewed through human perspective.
Rendering
3D Modeling
2D Animation
Architectural Drawing
3D Modeling
2D Animation
Architectural Drawing