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Dan Hu's Portfolio - September 2021
Dan Hu's Portfolio - September 2021
I am Dan Hu, and I attend Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated
Marketing Communications. My passions include everything from:
October 2017 – January 2018 February 2020 – March 2020 September 2021
Music video for the song Cities A new couple meets by the bike Product video and quick guide
by my friend Joyce Zheng. rack in this video ad for eo LLC. for Brilliance Laser Inks.
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Shortly after finishing my work for Green Ribbon Day, I Green Ribbon Day was the newly established mental
began my branding and design work for the BCA Histo- health and wellness day at my high school. Green is the
ry Conference. 2019’s theme was WWII, and my designs color associated with mental health awareness, and to
were inspired by propaganda and design principles from promote the event, I wanted to create posters that gave
the general time period. The vehicles featured are based off a feeling of peacefulness. I also designed the logo for
off of archival photography, to maintain a certain level the event, and now, Green Ribbon Day is observed yearly
of historical accuracy. A bright color palette was used (as at my high school.
opposed to darker colors usually associated with war) to
attract students to sign up for the event.
Life is a balance.
Join us March The Mental
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wellness. 7:40 AM.
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about how mental health afeets students in the room who could
our lives and the people around us. be struggling to keep up with
Join us March 5th @ BCA for workshops Join us March 5th @ BCA for workshops
about mental health and wellness. about mental health and wellness.
The Mental Health Club meets in Room The Mental Health Club meets in Room
20 on Thursdays 7:40 AM. 20 on Thursdays 7:40 AM.
Retro-North Productions
Photography
March 2019 – June 2019
As Co-President of Northwest-
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banners and stickers, and re-
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We founded IRIS as a meditation club to sneak some naptime into school– but instead, we ended up painting
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Music Production
MasqRosé
January 2021 – Present
Facebook
Writing
November 2019
In 2019 I was invited to Face- The Doomsday Bible From How Far Should You
book’s New York office to be a
part of a panel discussion about
Initiate a Greeting?
how young people consume September 2017
news through Instagram – to an October 2018
audience of about two hundred This short story placed 2nd in the genre
journalists. category of the Ringling Storytellers of To- If you write with the smallest font size avail-
morrow writing competition. Author Virgil able in Google Docs, you can fit 2,141 words
Suarez said of the story, “I’m quickly drawn onto a single page. That’s how long the train
into this story and its extremely plausible of thought is of the main character of this
The Daily Northwestern darkness.” The story asks a simple question:
what goes into a book written for the survi-
short story, when they see someone ap-
proaching – but who’s still too far away to say
vors of an apocalypse? hello to.
September 2019 – March 2020
Science
At The Daily Northwestern,
Northwestern University’s stu-
dent newspaper, I was an audio
reporter and co-creator of the
NU Declassified podcast. I host-
ed or produced 10 bi-weekly ep- Kaye’s Effect
isodes.
March 2017 – April 2017
Despite all the artistic work I did during high school, my aca-
Alfalfa Studio demic “concentration” was actually in science. As independent
research under the supervision of Dr. Ozgur Dogru, I studied
Kaye’s effect, a phenomenon occurring in shear-thinning liquids
February 2019 – August 2019 in which they “bounce” when poured as a thin stream.
Miscellaneous
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