Cetorelli_Portfolio 2025 by Amanda Cetorelli

PORTFOLIO

SELECTED WORKS

RESUME

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Passionate student curious to explore impactful cultural and sociological design with reliable personal and technological skill s. Enthusiastic worker who enjoys collaboration as a constant way to induce creativity and broaden perspectives. Currently seeking to utilize an architect’s education, its related 2D/3D multimedia skills and visual communication methods to further a career in architecture illustratio n, graphic design, and marketing. Truly interested in the design field and how r elated practices cross-pollinate and emerge in design choi ces. Provides a distinct eye for detail and legibility for composition as well as a differentiated background to solving design problems. INFORMATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

DRAW COLLECTIVE

Architectural Intern May 2023 ‒ Aug 2023

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Team Publicist

Sept 2023 ‒ Present

FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER

Freelance Present

QBurgh Team Photographer

June 2022 ‒ July 2023

EDUCATION

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Architecture and Environmental Design

Bachelor of Science in Architecture 2021 ‒ 2025

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

HILLEL AT KENT STATE

Social Action Co-Vice President Sept 2022 ‒ May 2023

Service Engagement Intern Sept 2022 ‒ May 2023

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Student Success Leader 2022 ‒ 2023

CERTIFICATIONS

U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL

LEED Green Associate May 2023

AWARDS

‒ KSUF CAED Most Inspiring Student Project Merit Award (2024)

‒ CAED Florence Larson Architecture Scholarship (2023)

‒ CAED X-Gallery Recipient (Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022)

‒ Hillel Emerging Leader Award (2022)

amandacetorelli@gmail.com

412-759-8560

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SKILLS:

PERSONAL

‒Time Efficient

‒ Detail Oriented

‒ Problem Solver

‒ Strong Work Ethic

‒ Collaborative + Communicative

TECHNOLOGICAL

‒ Adobe

Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop

‒ Microsoft

Excel, PowerPoint, Word

‒ Rhinoceros 3D

‒V-RAY, Twinmotion

‒3-D Printing

Bridging Connections: Piazza and Urban Community Center

Spring 2024

3rd Year Design Studio II Professor: Filippo Caprioglio

KSUF CAED Most Inspiring Student Project Merit Award

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Bridging Connections: Piazza and Urban Community Center proposes an interactive and full-circulation urban experience addressing the previous conditions of the Piazza dei Ciompi while enhancing its natural characteristics. Located in Florence, Italy, the contemporary building and piazza invite natives and non-natives to rest, socialize, and interact with the square.

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Envisioned is a lively space that celebrates a historic structure, the Loggia del Pesce, and shelters users as a way of communicating its urban stability. The elongated scale of the building and its elevated form engage the site, allowing the piazza and building to communicate as one organism that promotes activity for gathering and play. To respect the surrounding Italian architecture, thoughtful considerations to the materials of the building were made: traditional sandstone on the ground level transitions to cement and steel on the upper levels, a terracotta pitched roof to match the surrounding buildings, and glass facades act as a transparent wall of the encased activity.

Connecting the proposed building to the pre-existing structures is done by creating an alleyway for the ﬁ re staircase which mirrors the language of the contemporary building staircase in front of the cafe. Generating a terrace to view the Loggia furthers human interaction with the structure by creating another perspective of the tall shelter to admire its strength, history, and beauty.

Creating a centralized, ﬂuid space that users gravitate towards rather than walk around was a large driving factor for the design. Above is a conceptual drawing de ﬁ ning the building form by major intersection perspective points.

2024 MBMA STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

ADVISOR: ADAM YARACS

Proposed is a national student design competition submission challenging teams to create a new university sports complex that pushes the standards of metal construction to create the most innovative design solution celebrating metal structures. Serving the student population, the Rec Wellness Center occupies a repurposed dormitory site with a 22’ grade change to host a variety of indoor and outdoor activities. Custom built and colored metal framework supports the building while expressing more energetic forms to metal that unites the structure to the university. With a focus on health and wellness through a sustainable, unique design the team developed a dynamic wellness hub celebrating metal structures.

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Project Team: Kara Barnes // Amanda Cetorelli // Cade McCue // Daniel Resch

ject Team: Kara Barnes // Amanda Cetorelli // Cade McCue // Daniel Resch

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ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Fall 2024

Professor: Jaime Kennedy

Architectural Photography

Discovered is a passion for architectural photography through an entry-level experience photographing the Kent State University Aeronautics and Engineering Building. Learning how to bracket, gray card, post-produce, and deliver imagery as a narrative collection were major outcomes for the Editorial Architecture project. Photographic compositional techniques compounded with an architecture student’s background to create a thorough photo collection of architectural spaces.

Project 1 is a study of architecture, thematic colors, and programmatic spaces. Capturing the school-spirited spaces that elicit education and innovation was a major focus. With an emphasis on highlighting architectural aspects through detail and establishing shots, both interior and exterior shots were necessary to envision the student-oriented design.

Project 2 challenged a concentration on unconventional architecture as art. Presented is a set of photographs featuring fast food chains to argue the intentional use of color theory as a “Capitalistic Tool for Hunger”.

Visually connecting the theoretical techniques of color theory with real-world marketing strategies, this collection exposes the leverage companies have on consumers through architecture as art. Through photography, an investigation of the purposeful use of color on selected exteriors demonstrates the advantageous strategy of glowing propaganda that feasts on the human psyche.

Miscellaneous Photography

Model/Nature/Event/Portrait

model by Kara Barnes // Canon EOS Rebel Ti8

Displayed is a passion for people, storytelling, and nature through various works that span nearly a decade of a once hobby that has turned into freelance work and a creative outlet.

Professional Work Includes:

‒Publications in QBurgh Magazine

‒Model and Event Photography [CAED] ‒Freelance Portrait Photography

Marianna Rentzou // Canon Powershot Sx420

The Performer // Canon EOS Rebel T7

Flowers // 2018Color as a Capitalist Tool for Hunger // Canon

EOS Rebel T7

Unconventional Architecture // Canon EOS Rebel T7

Graphic Design

Outside of architecture, design dexterity involving type, illustrations, and marketing graphics have all become interests further explored while studying at Kent State University. Developing an understanding of visual representation, hierarchy, and legibility proves beneficial to architecture graphics and a general design career. The cross-pollination of design ﬁelds compounds with continuous growth, implementing mixed mediums to generate the projects exhibited.

The layout presented is a collection of studio works from Introduction to Visual Communication Design. Crafted with precision and attention to comprehension, three of the works demonstrate proﬁciency in type-based assignments. The abstract depiction of the letter "E" was a study in expressive illustrations, utilizing the capabilities of graphics to generate a reaction from the viewer that proclaims the audible actions of the still.

Excellence in

Visual Communication Design Three Design Innovators

Massimo Vignelli 1931-2014

Lucille Tenezas born 1953

“You should never lose sight of the fact that you are solving somebody’s problems. At the same time, you should solve your own as well.”

—Tenazas

“The life of a designer is a life of ﬁght. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor ﬁghts against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”

—Vignelli

Corita Kent 1918-1986

“I think a picture with all words is as much a picture as something with abstract or recognizable shapes.”

—Kent

EXCELLENCE IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN THREE DESIGN INNOVATORS

Corita Kent 1918-1986

“I think a picture with all words is as much a picture as something with abstract or recognizable shapes.”

Massimo Vignelli 1931–2014

Lucille Tenazas born 1953

“You should never lose sight of the fact that you are solving somebody’s problems. At the same time, you should solve your own as well.”

An article in a 1966 issue of Look magazine stated, “Long before those young men in New York invented pop art, a small nun in Los Angeles was showing her students at Immaculate Heart College how to discover the novel and beautiful in popular magazines and packages from the supermarket.

Courses Completed to Advance Skills:

‒Environmental Graphic Design

‒Introduction to Visual Communication Design

‒Video, Media, and Architecture

‒Visual Design Thinking

Philippines-born Tenazas is among those whose work came to the fore in the early 1980s, on the cusp of the shift from analog to digital design production and also at the point when the certainties of modernist simplicity and order, which had been integral to the deﬁnition of graphic design, were being called into question. This (alleged) undermining of modernism was coming from young designers, many of whom … had been exposed to postmodern theory as it meandered into design from both literary and art sources. Semiotic, structuralist and poststructuralist concepts treated words and images as “signs,” and regarded meaning as an artiﬁcial construct created by the reader—or readers— independently of authorial intent.

“YOU SHOULD NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT YOU ARE SOLVING SOMEBODY’S PROBLEMS. AT THE SAME TIME, YOU SHOULD SOLVE YOUR OWN AS WELL.”

The impact of these ideas on young designers, who were looking for an alternative to prevailing notions of graphic design as rote formalism or applied “good taste,” has been well documented. Tenazas’ work exemplifies a subtle interpretation of linguistic theory into design, where her translation of ideas through words and pictures, combined with her formidable skills as a form maker, enabled her to create a distinctive body of work.

The impact of these ideas on young designers, who were looking for an alternative to prevailing notions of graphic design as rote formalism or applied “good taste,” has been well documented. Tenazas’ work exempliﬁes a subtle interpretation of linguistic theory into design, where her translation of ideas through words and pictures, combined with her formidable skills as a form maker, enabled her to create a distinctive body of work.

LUCILLE TENAZAS

b. 1953

NNOVATOR IN GRAPHIC DESIGN I

Professionally, as a CAED Team Publicist, content creation and marketing have become an immense career interest. Responsibilities as a publicist included producing, either freely or following protocol, posts and digital displays to advertise to students. Adhering to branding and building upon criticisms from peers and higher-ups is expected and exciting to improve upon.

Professor: David

Fall 2022

Environmental graphic design

Middleton

Midway cycle system

The Midway Cycle System is a proposed cycle system that will improve the safety of riders and replace the current conventional bike lanes in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Designed in Environmental Graphic Design, a course within the Kent State University College of Visual Communication Design, the proposal provides solutions to potential way ﬁ nding signage, de ﬁ nes a brand and attitude, and strategizes community engagement through graphic design. The Midway will consist of sixty miles of landscape-buffered, twodirectional center-lane bike lanes connecting Cleveland neighborhoods and surrounding key regional assets. Access, connectivity, safety, and equity are some of the many values of the Midway Cycle System.