Andrew Hainen

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

ahainen — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:23:18 +0000

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place was my senior thesis project while at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. The piece is a digital, interactive storybook about a lonely boy named Gus who lives on an intergalactic telephone station. At a certain point in the story, Gus needs your help, by sending him text messages to charge his spaceship. The piece took seven months to create, including concept creation, basic programming, extensive 3D modeling and animating, and optimizing for the web. The project is viewable at www.helpg.us More details about the creation can be found on my blog, or my final written thesis.

Illustrated Income Tax Return

ahainen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:15:32 +0000

This project was created in a studio with Doug Hessltine during my Fall 2011 semester at the University of Michigan. The prompt was to create a large scale, print infographic, with the content completely left open to us. I decided to look around for the most boring subject or information, and try and make it "visually exciting". That term "visually exciting" turned out to be too general, and I narrowed my scope to making something "deceptively interesting".

Upon seeing the image, the illustration and colors are meant to draw you in. Once you realize what you're looking at, you feel slighted but note that you had shown and interest in something everyone dreads and finds boring, a 1040 income tax return. The information on the 1040 is cluttered and cramped, and the infographic is supposed to display a similar feeling while also showing a light satire on all the places your tax dollars end up.

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Lake Manor Healthcare

ahainen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:13:45 +0000

Animation

ahainen — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:21:52 +0000

Al Dente Pasta

ahainen — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:45:53 +0000

Pouring Sound

ahainen — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:57:23 +0000

TEDxUofM

ahainen — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:54:01 +0000

Painting

ahainen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:02:47 +0000

Fall 2009 I have taken one painting class in my life; this was the final result. I will probably never paint again, but I learned an incredible amount in Jim Cogswell's "Organizing Visual Space" studio that I was able to utilize in other areas of my work. This piece began from abstract collages that I made from magazine clippings. From there, we painted the collage and messed with depth and the medium of oil paint to convey more than what was just in the collage.

Paper Studies

ahainen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:47:54 +0000

Fall 2008 These were paper studies done for a studio with Matt Shlian. The first project we did was with cardboard and I didn't really understand what we we're doing. During the critique, Matt didn't even bother with mine and moved on. It was a real eye-opener, and when we moved on to paper studies I took it much more seriously. These were just a few samples of the designs I made.

Typography Study

ahainen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:40:21 +0000

Fall Concert Poster

ahainen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:29:21 +0000

Fall 2009 These were poster designs for a fictional fall concert made for Professor Dwayne Overmyer's class at the University of Michigan. I made a couple designs but I felt this was the most successful.

Consider Magazine

ahainen — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:21:43 +0000

Fall 2009 Consider Magazine is an on campus discussion magazine that comes out weekly. I helped update and modify their website in the fall of my junior year.

Drawings

ahainen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:40:15 +0000

DropShip Direct

ahainen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:02:03 +0000

GreenSleeves

ahainen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:53:56 +0000

This was a group project that I worked on with Teshia Treuhaft, Jill Brandwein, and Ryan Thurmer. "The coffee market in this day and age is stronger than at any other time in history. With more and more people stopping by their favorite shop for their morning caffeine, the amount of styrofoam cups used is growing astronomically. Our team set out to find a way for some part of the coffee routine to be reused. We discovered that with each cup of coffee sold, the majority were being sent out with a coffee sleeve to protect the consumer’s hand. These sleeves would then be disposed after each cup of coffee. Our team has devised an idea that would encourage the reuse of coffee heat protectors, called Greensleeves. Greensleeves would be used for a standard cup of coffee, but after finishing, the user would hang on to the sleeve for their next cup. Then, after 10 uses, the consumer could trade in the sleeve for a free cup of coffee. The Greensleeves idea gives the motivation to the user to keep their sleeve for more than one cup of coffee, and when they are finished with the sleeve, it has to be turned into the coffee shop, where it can then be disposed of properly."

MSuite iPhone Application

ahainen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:32:17 +0000

UM Web Design Group

ahainen — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:06:13 +0000

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010 I started this group in the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. The goal was to teach students how to create and design their own websites to display their portfolio. I was assisted by Natalie Freilich, Taylor Dodson, and Yi Li as officers, and we ran the group for two semesters. It was a great learning experience for me (and hopefully all who attended as well) on how to teach, create simplistic lessons, and help people get started in web design. I ended the group in the spring of 2010 as I wasn't finding it to be the best way to get peoples' portfolios online quickly.

Abstract Mindmaps

ahainen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:54:56 +0000