Marie Goodart

Communities’ Communication through Technology

After my fixer upper I decided that I enjoyed working with roommates, so we expanded our business to include a larger house with two houses on the property in a higher-rent area of Redmond, WA.

Creating a community includes weekly yoga, daily or twice-daily dishes, garbage and chore coordinating, landscaping and paying the utility bills. As leader and landlord of the house I coordinate all of these things. The house is huge and houses 10 roommates with 4 roommates in the adjoining house on the same property.

I enjoy the teamwork, community building and socialization of living in a share household.

Playing with Fonts

One of my favorite things is typography. Although I admittedly lack in book-knowledge about the pieces and Sans of fonts, I know what looks best inside a composition. This is a ticket I designed for my high school of 200 students in Rota, Spain. The photo is actually of a snow-fallen mountain train tracks, but I was able to crop the train tracks just right to show a winter wonderland. This is one of my first projects with Illustrator, although I’d been using PageMaker for a few years previously.

Vector Graphics

Vector graphics are by far my favorite skill. I’m able to transform this disco ball to a width of 3 feet without losing any quality. This proved a very useful skill during Olympic College’s biggest event of the year, Student Appreciation Day. This graphic served the marketing through flyers, posters and banners in many different sizes, from 4 inches wide to 6 feet wide.

The examples shown include my wireframes created for the vector graphics from the disco ball and burst background I created along with wireframe/vector-based text, all created in Adobe Illustrator from stratch and independently with input from my campus clients who varied from the Multicultural, Athletic, Student Programs, engineering/art departments, the college administration and the Associated Students of Olympic College.

Fixer-upper Project

With the help of my father, I purchased a 1905 in old town Tumwater, WA in February 2007. The house was stripped of toliets, showers, interior doors, light fixtures, appliances, hot water heater, washer/dryer and even the breaker box. I completed this project in 3 months and had renters by April 2007. I personally learned basic plumbing and electrical on my own as well as painting the entire 2700 sq foot house and installing an old claw foot bathtub.

I hired a couple contractors, but the majority of the work was done by myself, and self-taught from books.