The odds are I haven't met you yet. This is unfortunate. What I can do is help you learn more about me!
I am an experienced and creative designer with an array of specialized skillsets. Keep reading!
I design on the cusp of modern aesthetic and work closely with the client to acheive the best user satisfaction possible. Beauty and function are incoorporated with equal care.
I can help you update your company's image with a fresh logo designed to match your vision. My logos are scalable, and guarunteed for use across all media.
Posters are a very effective way of increasing awareness and attendance. I design them with savvy typography and layout that will be sure to put the important information first.
Data is all around us and sometimes we dont understand it all. Infographics can visualize data for you and help educate your audience. They work well for web and print.
Photoshop
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Drupal
Github
Blender 3D
MS Office
Typography
Color Theory
Print
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2015
Rensselaer Union
Lead Web Designer
Rensselaer Outing Club
Lead Web Developer/Designer, Webmaster
Lifenets Foundation
Webmaster
Hi, my name is Arthur Jordan Simonds. You can call me Jordan! I spent my entire childhood in Newtown, Connecticut, and now I live in Troy, New York studying to become a Mechanical Engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (better known as RPI). I am a full-time student and an enthusiastic part-time graphic designer. I have a keen sense of style and can make pretty much anything look good. In fact, that is my motto: "Look good!"
Anyway, I started designing in 3D back in high school using a free program called Blender. I then progressed to print design and made dozens of unique posters for various events, clubs and staff departments around campus here at good ol' RPI. I worked mainly in Adobe Illustrator, with some dabbling in Photoshop and InDesign.
My passion for digital design grew and grew. Soon I was taking classes and starting my own projects. I really enjoyed designing posters but I wanted to make something more global and timeless. There is nothing better than a logo, I thought, and so I got into branding. I studied hundreds of logos, new and old, trying to appreciate the effort that went into each one. I analyzed their composition, their color, and most importantly how the logo matched the organization. I now have a solid history in branding, habing made logos for clubs, companies, video games, events, and even myself.
In the spring of 2013, another opportunity arose. The Rensselaer Outing Club, a club I am very active in on campus, lost all of their database information including members, leaders, equipment and officer positions. The old server with the website crashed and only a limited amount of information was recoverable. I promised to completely redesign the website and learn whatever languages and skills I had to in order to get it back to a fully functioning website and database. I taught myself several web languages and how to structure an efficient database.
By the end of the summer, I had created a beautiful website with all the functionality needed to restock our database of epuipment and members. It had many new features that the old site did not.