As part of the Masters of Architecture program at Drury University, all students must go through a semester of community development. Teachers break students into separate groups, challenging them to interact with a small community in the surrounding area and suggesting ideas of how they can improve their town. This builds teamwork and community design strategies in the field of architecture.
I chose to be included in a group that would give Houston, Missouri the new identity it desired, and ideas that could help stop people from moving to larger cities. As part of this process, we were broken into smaller teams including: Editorial Design, Graphics, Model Making, Treasurer, and Idea Processing.
As part of the graphics team, we worked weekly to create boards that would be presented to the community, custom entrance name cards, overall logo development of the town, and other various small projects to be used in the design process.
At the end of the semester after our book was complete and our meetings with the community were finished, I decided to revamp their website. Their previous website was horribly confusing with too many external links and not enough physical site design. A one-page design helped simplify this problem, opening new tabs to external links as necessary. It acted as a completion to a long semester of graphic identity.
