Sara Bassick

Paragon Book Gallery - Over the past six months, I have been working for Paragon Books in Chicago, which has been the foremost distributor of books on Asia since 1948. For this project, I created a 300-page catalogue and 15-page brochure of their available winter titles. The most important aspect of this project was consistency and clarity. I chose to work with a simple grid, using legible text blocks and colorful photography in order to display the information as concisely and clearly as possible.

Visual Diary - For my Masters Thesis project at UIC, I designed a flash-based interactive website called Visual Diary. The goal of the site was to create a visual calendar database in which the user could input their personal diaries and the site would color code and assign shapes to the information in order to create a data visualization of the user’s hour, day or month based on the narrative given. The following spreads are a part of my process book and detail the research I employed to create the site.

UIC Re-accreditation Self-Study - In the Spring of 2006, I worked for the University of Illinois at Chicago under the direction of Professor Marcia Lausen and in collaboration with designer Dan Elliott, designing their annual Re-accreditation manual. This was a 200-page binder that communicated the future goals of the university through precise typography, charts and graphs and engaging photography.

Urban Jungle - Urban Jungle is a study based on the city of Chicago--a picture book about the textures, colors and patterns found in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of the city. I created an engaging visual landscape using brightly colored, textural photography. Through the juxtaposition of these site-specific photographs, my intention was to recreate the landscape of a small part of Chicago as a microcosm and thus, communicate the look, feel and texture of the entire city landscape itself.

Adena Health Systems redesign
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