Matthew Maharaj Experience Designer

Student Project 2012

The guitar and amp seen here were originally for a typography class, creating a set of 2 images with the same theme, whether that be insects, large animals, misc objects, or in my case musical instruments. The idea of the projects was to use 2 different typefaces one serif and one sans-serif and create the chosen objects with each type, using different weights and sizes for contrast. The posters were then turned into ads for the senior portfolio class.

Student Project 2013

Problem:

A challenge was brought forth to a group of 9 graphic designers, create a historical based graphic design book, no limitations were presented themes, style, size of the book, were all left up to the team of designers, the one stipulation was to have at least 2 spreads per designer.

Solution:

The main theme of the book was originally that of a geographical nature, designers were chosen from different areas of the world through varying time periods, however as the project continued the theme of the book took a drastic turn. The theme seen now is that of a timeline, taking designers from different eras of design and showcasing them a categorical order. For instance designers from the Bauhaus, Modern and Post-Modern eras were showcased.

Student Project 2014

For this project we were required to create a unified packaging system of our choosing, the project requirements were to have at least three of the following elements (where applicable): self-created company logo, product flavor/scent/genre/etc., photographs/illustrations (self generated, UPC code, product weight, nutritional information, and ingredient information. With any product at our disposal I choose to go the videogame route and decided to do a videogame cover, the original soundtrack to go with it and the art book cover as a collector’s edition, but they can also be sold as separate products. As I choose to do this project I decided to theme the project with a horror story, and follow the Japanese videogame design guidelines for the (Computer Entertainment Rating Organization) CERO rating system, which is the Japanese equivalent of the Entertainment Software Sating Board (ESRB) which is the videogame rating system which they use in the United States and Canada.

Freelance 2014

This was a prototype for a magazine that was used as part of a presentation. The theme of the magazine was that of Trinidad's carnival, it would go through different aspects of carnival not just as an editorial piece but the magazine would also make use of AR technology to interact with readers.