Luis Zapata

graphic design • photography • product design

RESUMEEDUCATIONNC STATE UNIVERSITY - raleigh, nc

Masters of Graphic Design, Major GPA: 3.97 • May 2017Bachelor of Industrial Design, Major GPA: 3.0 • May 2011

RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY - beppu-shi, oita-ken, japan

Study Abroad • Spring 2010

EXPERIENCENCSU COLLEGE OF DESIGN - raleigh, nc

Teaching Assistant • August 2015 to PresentAid professor in teaching 25 students in First Year Experience, first year design studioEncourage the students to develop their ideas through the design process by full class discussions, one-on-one critiques, and e-mails

NCSU STUDENT MEDIA - raleigh, nc

Photography Graduate Assistant • September 2014 to PresentFocus on teaching photo ethics and aiding the current photo staff of 42 in being stronger photographers Coordinate with the three editorial staffs at student media on planning assignments that encourage collaboration between photographers, writers, editors, and designers by looking at larger projects for the publicationsSenior Staff Photographer • August 2008 to August 2011Used advanced techniques including studio lighting, on-location lighting, and color correcting software on photos for assignments for Agromeck Yearbook, Technician student newspaper, WKNC radio stationTrained new photographers, about 30 students, in basic and advanced techniques

JAPAN EXCHANGE AND TEACHING PROGRAM - minamishimabara-shi, nagasaki-ken, japan

Assistant Language Teacher • August 2011 to August 2014Planned English classes with Japanese teachers of English at two junior high schools, and created unique curriculum for all 6 grades at two elementary schools, a total of 790 students Engaged students in an interesting and creative way of learning English by looking at different learning techniques to tailor individual strategies for students and prepare them for the high school entrance exam

ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORSMember of American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) • September 2015 to PresentFirst Place in Dejima Network Photo Contest • September 2013First and Second Place in Yearbook photography - NC College Media Association • February 2012ACP First Place Individual Award for Photo Excellence in Environmental Portraiture • October 2011First Place in landscape/urban category - NC State University Study Abroad Photo Contest • October 2010Noble and McDuffie Grant recipient • January 2010Member of Society of Collegiate Journalists (SCJ) • February 2009 to Present

LANGUAGEEnglish • NativeJapanese • Conversational

SKILLS

PUBLICATIONSPHOTOGRAPHED FORTechnicianAgromeckNubian MessageNagazzashiThe BrickGopack.comAlumni MagazineIndyweek.comNews & Observer

WORKED FORTechnicianAgromeckNubian MessageNagazzashi

SOFTWAREAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesignAdobe PremiereAdobe After EffectsMicrosoft OfficeSolidWorks

PROGRAMMINGJavascript / UnityJavaHTMLCSSR

DESIGNBranding and logoScreen printingPublication and layoutsBook binding3-D PrintingRendering

HOBBIESTable-top gamerAnime ConsAikidoTaikoKyudo

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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graphic design

Branding • SECCA

Identity • Warehouse

UX • Project Managament

Layout • Traditional Book Layout

Posters • Bilingual Educational Poster

Layout • Our Taste

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photography

product design

Landscape • Kuchinotsu - yugure

Sport • Drive Forward

Portrait • Dumpling and Noodle

Bottle • Bomb Shell

Accessory • Light Weight

7 Branding

SECCASoutheastern Center For Contemporary Art

SECCASoutheastern Center for Contemporary Art

April 30, 2015

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Asperna sam,Borrum Aximusa

T 336 725 1904F 336 722 9142

750 Marguerite Drive,Winston-Salem, NC 27106www.secca.org

SECCAExhibits

ADD YOUR VOICE

AND CELEBRATE THE

UNVEILING OF OUR

NEW EXHIBIT

LOCAL VOICES

MAY 31, 2015

Project • SECCA BrandingClass • GD400 - Branding and Interaction for the Creative and Cultural SectorSemester • Spring 2015

With a fellow classmate, April Maclaga, we worked on the branding for Southeast Contempory Art Museum. We used the power of voice to drive our concept. In a simple form, it was a waveform, but in more complexity, how voice travels and who is speaking.With that, we looked giving a voice to the guest, SECCA having a muted voice and hearing the physical voice of the artist.

SECCASoutheastern Center for Contemporary Art

T 336 725 1904F 336 722 9142

750 Marguerite DriveWinston-Salem, NC 27106www.secca.org

April 30, 2015

Haria Litasperum,

Orempos as ut rem dus sa ne mo ipsuntemo volorum qui conseque sim alicatis eumquae nonesedi omnisqui tem haria noneces aut estrupt atento int poremporunt verfero vent undesen ienestrum de dellorem adignatem eatisqu issint quiae voluptatio beatur? Elender emperum ipiciuntis ra cum fuga. Itat que di nossimi, eum sed que adita sequi comnimod esed quodit et auta nis restios atem que voluptaerum ratem apis et, vollate mporis nihilleste comnim asseque ea volorio volorum ut ut eos aborecto tecab ium volesci uribus eictur? Cus dignis quod que dem enis sunti vellupt atectib eatur?

Borrum rem. Aximusa in con num imaio in cus, simporro mincidis dolore maionet dunt et volupiet, idipsamus eos exerisquatio enim am ipsamet quia quiae doloriandi consedion reptatu ritecto et ex esciis dolor si dest, siminct otatum quatusae omnim comnis cum accuptae peribus inimilit aut laborit earum ligenis inis nim ut aspicia cus, torum num doluptati volorit molorem eat.

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Asperna sam,Borrum Aximusa

above top: a more

playful letterhead.

above: a more

muted visual

letterhead for

serious situations.

left: business card

sized mailers for a

specific event.

+ =DIALOGUE

left and above: when guests walk in, they are promoted to make

personalized tags using their voice.

above left: galleries are labeled with a method of wayfinding

that shows where other galleries are in proximity to that one,

in a radial fashion.

right: ipads accompany pieces to allows guests to listen to the

artist explain the pieces.

11 Identity

Project • Identity for Raleigh Warehouse DistrictClass • GD400 - Branding and Interaction for the Creative and Cultural SectorSemester • Spring 2015

As a way of creating an identity for the Warehouse District in Raleigh, NC, I made an art installation visualization that showed live data of when a member of the district, employee or resident, entered another establishment in the district. It did this by utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies embedded in a key-chain sized device. When one person entered the location, the line would wobble in a thread-like fashion, more people, more movement.

RFID in pocket

Receiver in door

left: shows the rfid as drawn threw sketches, followed by the size that it would be in

the hand and how it might looked attached to a set of keys.

below: shows someone walking through a door. the door would have an receiver in

the door to be able to read the rfid when someone walked it. this action would send

a single to the art installation.

15 User Experience

Project • Project/Campaign Management SystemClass • GD400 - Advanced Graphic Design StudioSemester • Fall 2014

Working with Emily Porter, we developed a system to help different channels for a campaign or project to work together and to have the process be more visible for all the parties involved, especially the project manager. The highlight to the system was the archival aspect which allows anyone on the team to view how the data or assets have changed over time.

17 Traditional Book

Project • Traditional Book MakingClass • GD317 - Typography 2Semester • Spring 2015

A way to look at the method a traditional book is typeset and put together, I used the Gutenberg Project to create a chapter from the Arabian Nights. The purpose was to use the methods from the traditional book design in creating a system. In doing so, I created two signatures that I then bound into a book with a cover made of vinyl. The cover was laser cut and etched to give multiple textures.

19 Posters

P·r·o·v·e·r·b·s(名)：a well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says something that is generally true.

こ・と・わ・ざ

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

One cannot be in two places at once.

Practice makes perfect

Rome was not built in a day

Strike when the iron is hot.

There is no royal road to learning

When you are in Rome do as the Romans do.

All roads lead to Rome.

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.

鉄は熱いうちに打て（好機逸すべからず）

学問に王道なし

ローマは一日にして成らず（大器晩成）

意志は曲げがたし

習うより慣れよ

郷に入っては郷にしたがえ

笑うかどには福来たる

全ての道はローマに通ず

二兎を追うものは一兎をも得ず

古くから人々に言いならわされたことば

Can you match the English proverb with the Japanese one?英語のことわざ、日本語では何というかな？

P·r·o·v·e·r·b·s(名)：a well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says something that is generally true.

こ・と・わ・ざ

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

One cannot be in two places at once.

Practice makes perfect

Rome was not built in a day

Strike when the iron is hot.

There is no royal road to learning

When you are in Rome do as the Romans do.

All roads lead to Rome.

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.

鉄は熱いうちに打て（好機逸すべからず）

学問に王道なし

ローマは一日にして成らず（大器晩成）

意志は曲げがたし

習うより慣れよ

郷に入っては郷にしたがえ

笑うかどには福来たる

全ての道はローマに通ず

二兎を追うものは一兎をも得ず

古くから人々に言いならわされたことば

Can you match the English proverb with the Japanese one?英語のことわざ、日本語では何というかな？

Object • Bilingual Educational PostersPlace • Minamishimabara, Nagasaki, JapanDate • August 2011 - August 2014

As an English teacher in Japan, I periodically made posters for an English board at a junior high school. I created posters that would make the students think or to introduce a topic. One way I made them think was about the proverb poster above, or by doing an activity in class and hanging up the results. The topics I would introduce would be based of things they already know, like Christmas or the Chinese zodiacs. I did most of the illustrations or manipulated found illustrations online.

21 Layout

Project • Magazine Layout DesignClass • GD417 - Typography 3Semester • Fall 2014

A fictitious magazine about the culture and story behind food as part of a typography project. We had to come up with cover designs, table of contents, various feature pages and department sections. We also had to develop it into a digital publication for an iPad to deal with a medium change.The iPad portion was developed in Adobe InDesign’s Digital Publish suite. It was fully interactive.

25 Landscape

Piece • Kuchinotsu - YugurePlace • Minamishimabara, Nagasaki, JapanDate • July 2013

Where I spent three years teaching English, the sun sets at the end of the rainy season filling the sky with various shades of pink, yellow, and purple. This photo was a 9-photo HDR. A similar effect could have been accomplished with a slow shutter speed and a polarizing filter; however, I wanted the water to still be choppy and mimic the dissipating clouds.

27 Sports

Piece • Drive ForwardPlace • Raleigh, NC, USAPublication • N.C. State TechnicianDate • October 2010

Russell Wilson, while a N.C. State quarterback, drives the ball during a game against Boston College in 2010. During my time at N.C. State, I learned how to shoot many sports. My favorite sport of all, though, is football. To be in a big stadium and feel all the energy coming from the fans and players is something powerful.

29 Portrait

Piece • Dumbling and NoodlePlace • Raleigh, NC, USAPublication • N.C. State TechnicianDate • March 2011

David’s Dumpling and Noodle Bar is a restaurant on Hillsborough Street. David brings a culmination of Asia to his menu giving it class and taste. Short of preparing the food in front of the customers David keeps a transparent restaurant. Because of this, I wanted to show David displaying his food to signify that he truly has a hand in his restaurant and it’s success.This photo won first place in environmental portraiture for Associate Collegiate Press.

33 Bottle

Project • 3-D Printed Water BottleClass • ID 201 - Intermediate ID studioSemester • Fall 2008, Revisit Spring 2011

BombShell was a grenade inspired drink bottle designed during 2nd year of Industrial Design and then revisited during my final year. The idea was to make a sleek bottle design meant to be “grab and go.” The key design element behind the shape was the grip grooves to try and make the bottle more inviting to hold in your hand.

35 Accessory

Project • Light Weight - Capstone ProjectClass • ID 400 - Advance ID studioSemester • Spring 2011

Light Weight was my capstone project for the industrial design bachelors degree. The criterion for the project was open-ended. The project was inspired by my experience with light stands repeatedly falling over. I surveyed 50 US-based photographers. It lead me into the development of the idea that I call lightweight to improve on today’s products.