College - Author 1
College of Liberal Arts
Department - Author 1
Graphic Communication Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in Graphic Communication
Date
6-2025
Primary Advisor
Hocheol Yang, College of Liberal Arts, Graphic Communication Department
Abstract/Summary
The Cheetah is a 1992 world speed record-breaking bike designed and built by three mechanical engineering graduates from UC Berkeley: Jon Garbarino, James Osborn, and Kevin Frantz. After years on display at the Tech Interactive in San Jose, the bike is returning home to Berkeley’s engineering school for public display. In accompaniment of the exhibit, the Cheetah engineering team requested printed signage with a QR access to a comprehensive website detailing the Cheetah narrative. There is an abundance of media from the engineering process — extensive photographic documentation, substantial archival documents, reputable external media coverage, and an in-progress docuseries — much of which is scattered across the internet and/or entirely inaccessible to the public. The purpose of Project Cheetah is to fully digitize and unify this content by constructing a digital exhibit of the Cheetah story. The objective during this ten-week senior project is to create an interactive, responsive home (landing) page prototype for the Cheetah website, including a wide-screen (desktop) and mobile interface design. This prototype, created using Figma design and prototyping software, establishes a brand identity for the Cheetah site and will inform the design of subsequent pages on the site.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/grcsp/314