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Hi, my name is Shawn Torres and I specialize in interactive design, development, and strategy. I create effective websites, banners, emails and mobile apps that will capture your audience’s attention, speak to their needs, hopes and imaginations I will tirelessly craft your communications that best reflect your unique brand. Consider your objectives reached and your goals met. Let’s build beautiful things together!
Thank you for visiting my online portfolio. Here you will find samples of my work as a designer/developer spanning print, web and motion mediums. Currently, I am a freelance designer and developer and am consulting for Wunderman & Thompson Advertising in Washington, D.C. I am also a graduate student at Quinnipiac University pursuing my masters in Interactive Media and Communications. Below you will find some of my latest work, case studies from recent professional and freelance projects, and writing related to my graduate studies. Please reach out on linkedin if you would like to stay in touch, explore opportunities or plan your next project. I look forward to hearing from you.
The Shenandoah Valley Report – Content Strategy Final Project - Module 7 - Content Strategy with Professor Phillip Simon Delivering on an RFP. In this post, I am sharing my final project for my Content Strategy Class. The professor asked… 
Anticipatory Design – Good Help is Hard to Build. - Long-Form - Writing Interactive Media, Professor Susan Tamulevich Great Service is User-Centered You wake up in the morning and coffee is brewed, breakfast is ready and the morning paper is… 
Can I Tag Along? Customer Journey Mapping - Mod 7- Seeing Through The Customers Eyes with Prof. Bjorn Akselsen What is a Customer Journey Map? A customer journey map tells the story of a user's experience. It is… 
Producing Personas - Mod 4- Managing Perceptions with Prof. Bjorn Akselsen Principles of Personas A persona is a way to model, summarize and communicate research about people who have been observed or researched… 
Cosmos Club Interactive Kiosk - First Interactive Display at the Club This project began with the need to post the latest membership updates on a board in the lobby of the cosmos Club. These postings… 
The CIVIC Mobile App - MODULE 6 & 7 - The CIVIC Concept App Final Project with Prof. Patrick Hogan What was changed and why One person, or even a few people cannot do it… 
Recent Campaign Designs for CC - Hi, I wanted to share some recent campaign designs I created for the Cosmos Club. Unfortunately I do not get do flex the creative as much as I would like… 
The Case for Space: DataViz Final Project - STORYTELLING THROUGH VISUALIZATIONS Sourcing Data My final project and very first interactive data story will be about the long term survival of the human race. I will be advocating space… 
“The greatest beauty lies in the greatest clarity” - MODULE 4 - Visual Cues and Aesthetic Considerations I do not like to criticize others work. Generally, I like the golden rule, if you have nothing nice to say…. Besides,… 
“Mary & Bessie” A Mini Documentary - "Mini-Documentary" Video Project Production Notes: This is just a good old fashioned ghost story. I wanted to try my hand at every basic scare cliché I could think… 
All-Pro PBJ, A “How To” Video - "How To" Video Project Production Notes: For this project I wanted to go in a different direction. Instead of running around to many different locations and setting up… 
Cosmos Club: A Three Minute Tour - Video Montage Production Notes: First of all, I thank the Almighty that I had a production plan. This week was challenging and without that plan, I would have… 
Motion Across Media: The Final Project - Production Notes: "Back To School" Production Notes: This is a non-linear piece. A compilation of various projects I worked on through the semester. Special thanks to Professor Kent… 
UI Design/Navimation – The Jingle Jammer - The Jingle Jammer Device Mock up Production Notes: When I first received this assignments I didn’t get it. It didn’t make any sense to me to create a… 
Principles of Animation - Learning How to Imitate Life - Principles of Animation This week we were asked to do some searching and find at least 5 examples that show some of the 12 Principles of Animation. Disney's Twelve… 
SRA Logo Stinger - Production Notes: I designed the Soccer Revolution Academy www.soccerevolutionacademy.com logo in 2010. They have been a long time client, and Gavin Stevens the founder, is a friend. Since… 
My First Stop Motion Animation- Love Attacks! - Production Notes: I kinda like getting my family involved in this stuff, if not, they think I have lost my mind playing with their old toys! I wanted to… 
Animating the Inanimate: Exploring Stop Motion - Exploring the World of Stop Motion Animation With this post I really wanted to show a variety of stop motion styles that I enjoy and are found everywhere. From feature… 
My Cinemagraphs - For our second assignment, we were asked to create cinemagraphs. I found that creating a cinemagraph is all about great masking. I learned that getting good footage is not that… 
White Paper – “OFF Switch” - A guide to personal well being and productivity in the attention economy. Introduction Protecting yourself and loved ones from the negative effects of pervasive technology is becoming difficult. Technology is…
