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The small thumbnails on the top of this page are a random sampling of websites in a member’s Network.
We were invited to be part of a gallery show curated by Armchair. They chose ten of their favorite artists and had them team up with a charity. I picked Dashboard...
Think Smart. is a campaign to help promote a healthy lifestyle to children ages 6-12. Our goal is to educate 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' habits by using objects...
Kinetic Typography set to the music of El Guante. An informal project involving typography embedded in video. Artist / El Guante Song / Old English Letters
HMONG + HEALTH is a project that began to bring awareness to the Hmong community about daily health. It's cultivating into a community and partnerships to bring...
Death to Prom (a McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship & Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Screenplay Competition Finalist) is a bizarre love triangle loaded with...
HLUB is the national youth conference of the Hmong District. To bring young people close to Christ through an experience of the Gospel. The logo encapsulates the...
greetings, and welcome to my piece of the web. i reside in minnesota where i work as a graphic designer in minneapolis, mn. i'm a hmong-american graphic...
This project is a collaboration between a group of student designers at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design documenting a story about a local bike enthusiast...
I started working on this cover a while ago and had to a do a digital cover sooner than later (the last image shown). One thing lead to another and I ended up...
CD and LP packaging for Mux Mool. Credits: Art Direction/Typography/Design: Michael Cina Cover Illustration: Michael Gaughan Inside CD and Label Illustration:...
Various projects and exercises from my art department internship at Urban Outfitters Summer 2010. Bele Chere 2010 Posters NYC Job Fair Poster Graphic Tee &...
Facebook hired Cina Associates for a couple of projects and one of them was to create an illustration for their yearly f8 conference. This table was later turned...
Rory is a campaign created for Veterinary Pet Insurance. The campaign focuses on sharing small stories and examples/benefits of what you will receive when insuring...
PREVANTION is a campaign for Adam's Pest Control specifically for the Linden Hills community in Minneapolis. Workshops on how to keep ants and other house invaders...
MN Solar Short A Fiend Production "The Man with the Golden Sun" was selected the winner of the Putting the Sun to Work for Minnesota film contest, presented by...
Resident Advisor approached us to design a poster for their ten year tour. The only restriction was that it had to have an X through the poster. We decided to use...
CHAT's 10th Annual Art and Music Festival Creating a systematic brand for CHAT's Art and Music Festival. To create a poster that could be individually broken up...
Naming and branding for a deep pressure vest based out of Boston, MA. VAYU / The Vayu vest is a new and innovative medical device designed to meet the stark need...
Cave Party is an all-female design powerhouse. Members include: Alexandra Roche, Julie Roche, Emily Reile, & Annie Yiling Wang. Please find the rest at...
About the Art: GLIMMER 1. A faint or unsteady light; gleam. 2. A dim perception; inkling. Verb (used without object) 3. To shine faintly or unsteadily;...
Bopomofo is a fictional pop-up store where all things sold are made in Taiwan. The inventory is a wide range of objects, foods, and goods from the quotidien to the...
Water for Peace restores access to clean water in Iraqi schools and hospitals. It provides a way for Americans and Iraqis to work together to build trust and...
On August 29, 2010 I sent out nine packages to nine friends with a simple request: to send back the enclosed envelope with the closest physical object that fit in...
This video is an SOS. It was first sent by DOC2DOCK, a non-profit organization that saves usable medical supplies from being discarded in the U.S. and sends them...
In an effort to promote Minnesota Timberwolves Guard Corey Brewer for 2010 NBA Most Improved Player of the Year. We cultivated a campaign based on his name to...
Collage animation for the Urban Griots Awards hosted by the Minnesota Spoken Word Association and Tru Ruts Records. The Urban Griots Awards was an award show...
SMM: Context is the first release in Ghostly International’s new yearly compilation series of evocative, exploratory music. We developed a concept based around...
Contribution to Poster Offensive 5, the “independent, non-partisan poster show which utilizes the politically potent medium of the poster to showcase...
In 2010, The MVA Studio teamed with one of the premier contemporary art centers in the midwest The Soap Factory to design the majority of their print collateral....