Theora Kvitka is a visual storyteller utilizing illustration, comics and design. Available for freelance: tk[at]theorakvitka[dot]com
a visual storyteller and design researcher.
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Introduction Neighboring is a community-building art project led by myself and fellow designer Catherine Oldershaw. The project invites Pittsburghers, both artists and non-artists alike, to create art or artifacts that explore what it means to be a neighbor. Neighboring will culminate in a juried gallery exhibit at Late Space,… Read More
The twentysomethings of Urbanity Planet find themselves at an art opening that is both down to earth and inflated with meaning. This seven page excerpt is just one of the many adventures in this webcomic series! Read more Urbanity Planet, my webcomic about coming of age on another… Read More
Context The following documents the final Interaction Design Studio project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Masters of Design program. The professors were Ashley Deal and Raelynn O’Leary. This seven week project was a team effort with myself, Lauren Miller and Monica Looze. Brief: Design a product ecosystem that extends beyond… Read More
The brief for this project was very open-ended; we needed to incorporate kinetic typography using the word “Design” into an interactive experience of some kind. Cardboard Dreams Since I’ve been very excited about Google Cardboard for the past few months, I hoped to build something simple that could be… Read More
This semester at Carnegie Mellon I’ve been fortunate to work with professor Dan Lockton as a research assistant. The project that I am working on is called Pittsburgh Civic Visions, on a team that includes Dan, myself, Ashlesha Dhotey, Nehal Vora,two other design masters candidates and Silvia Mata-Marin, a… Read More
Scrollbar Animation By adding onto an existing scrollbar motion effect, I created a new video for Austin Lee’s IXD Lab. First, I experimented with the Adobe Illustrator file that moves in the animation. I added some gradients and a curving brush stroke. Then I re-imported that file to… Read More
In this project for my Interaction Design Studio, I worked to improve an interaction taking place in the context of the grocery store checkout lane. Seeking to create better visibility for customers who bring their own reuseable bags to the store, I innovated a solution that utilizes the… Read More
The second assignment in Austin Lee’s Prototyping Lab class was to use six examples from an animation library and create a new, short animation of our own. I decided to create some vector art to illustrate this assignment, using familiar characters from my Urbanity Planet series. I first looked… Read More