• About Me
  • My Work
    • The Field Museum
    • Slumber Sleepover Kit
    • Museum of Illusions
    • Opportunity's Journey
    • Exactitude in Science
    • Bitter Chocolate Co.
  • Playground
  • Resume
  • About Me
  • Work
    • The Field Museum
    • Slumber Sleepover Kit
    • Museum of Illusions
    • Opportunity's Journey
    • Exactitude in Science
    • Bitter Chocolate Co.
  • Playground
  • Resume

Welcome to the playground!

Check out this selection of small-scale, fun, design projects.

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A publication telling the story of the Opportunity rover.

Pulication Design, Copywriting, Photo Editing

Featuring imagery from NASA.gov, this publication tells the story of Opportunity, a rover that travelled 28 miles across Mars' surface. The publication experiments with page layout and the use of a circular grid, testing how the grid can be used to mirror the shape of the planet's craters. I have since adapted this publication into an interactive web project.

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A collection of eight paper flowers with packaging.

Package Design, Product Design

These paper flower demonstrate a technical skill in package design and working in three-dimensional forms. The patterns for the eight flower, eight green boxes, and two pink boxes were hand-drafted and constructed by me.

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A publication presenting the work of Patty Carroll.

Publication Design

This publication tells the story of Patty Carroll's work through imagery of her artwork and excerpts of written text from articles and interviews discussing her work and life. Carroll's work centers around the modern romanticization of domestic life and her own struggle between married life and female independence. The book is divided into different chapters based on her different series of works: Heads, Draped, Reconstructed, Demise, and Flora & Fauxna.

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A collection of paper platonic solids and other forms.

Package Design

These paper structures demonstrate an understanding of three-dimensional forms and how to draft them. These forms were all drafted on paper by hand and then cut and folded by me after creating several prototypes.

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A comic telling the story of my mother and I's relationship and love for brie en croûte.

Publication Design, Illustration

This comic tells the story of my close relationship with my mother and our time spent together. The dish brie en croûte is used throughout the comic as a symbol of me learning to live on my own while still connecting to my family as I moved away for college.

✦ Coded and designed by Lauren Elise Nickels ✦

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