sophia dengosenior visual & interactive designer
journalist & space blogger
amateur jeweler & maker of awesomeness
Asteroids, meteors, comets, and meteorites are sometimes used interchangeably. With all the space rocks that seem to be taking aim at Earth lately, it seemed that a graphic explaining the differences among them was called for.
Had a little extra time on my hands and decided to try my hand at taking an out-of-date website and translating the most important information (as I perceived it) onto a mobile app.
I followed best practices for designing on iOS and sized the app for an iPhone 5 height. The purple is dictated by the California Science Center’s existing logo, which was repurposed for the app.
This is still a work in progress, but the app’s home screen seemed like a logical place to start!
One of CNN.com’s writers needed art for his Rules of the Internet story and asked for a simple type treatment of the rules. Originally, the intent was to illustrate each rule, but for the sake of visual clarity the illustrations were eliminated.
Color and font choices were dictated by CNN’s digital style guide and a need for multiple font weights.
Latino in America is a CNN.com franchise that’s run for several years. This graphic was designed and executed at the request of the LIA blog producers, who wished to shed light on the reality of being Latino in America.
This graphic ran on CNN.com during NY Fashion Week. It required working closely with both a writer as well as a CNN Library researcher in order to compile the data and select the information that best tells the story, and went through several rounds of revision.
BorderStories was produced by a team of four people over the course of about three months. I was responsible for managing the website, which included creating the Flash shells for the content and the core of the branding.
I also had opportunities to shoot video and translate between English and Spanish.
After the Haiti earthquake in 2010, CNN.com struggled with how to best quickly display the reams of data we had for quakes and aftershocks, relief locations, casualties and damage.
We created these maps by leveraging KML files and the Google Maps for Flash API along with an HTML shell to house them in.
Produced as a concept for CNN International. The goal was to take disparate sets of data about water and combine them all into an attractive visual element that would stand alone on a page.
In 2009, CNN produced a documentary about what it’s like to be black in America. CNN.com produced this multimedia piece, which talked about the migration of a few families around the United States.
I was responsible for the design (based on a style guide) and the Flash programming of the piece, including the audio, animations and slideshows.
Redesign of beadingdreams.com, the online home of a small, independently-owned bead shop in Dallas, Texas.
Client wanted a site that was both attractive and easy to update without a ton of training required, so the site uses WordPress as a CMS. Color scheme was dictated by an existing logo, but otherwise the layout and information architecture choices were mine, keeping in mind that the client wanted to prioritize new products and classes.
