A movie poster for Thomas Vinterberg and Lars Von Trier's Dear Wendy, a satire on American gun culture. The poster juxtaposes real and fantasy images of guns in America to support the filmmakers critique.

A promotional postcard that questions the idea of the 'promo piece' itself. On one hand, the promo piece is quite meaningless, functioning only as an attention grabber. On the other hand, the purpose if the piece is to have your work recognized which can lead to new and exciting possibilities.

An identity for PostHaste, the nation's first shipping by way of teleportation company. An end tag was also created for the logotype, featured below.

An event poster for the CalArts Open House Dance Concert. The big letterforms are constructed by a system of joints, representative of the way a dancer moves when performing.

*Collaboration with Bijan Berahimi

A mailer for the Red Bull Theater production of Revelation Readings, an award winning play-reading series in New York. The mailer shows a classical stage in which the action, or in other words, the main lettering takes place.

*Collaboration with Bijan Berahimi

An event poster for Ugly Feelings, a reading and discussion based program highlighting books from Jack Halberstam, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Maggie Nelson. The letterforms on the poster are forms both created and found, that we considered repulsive.

*Collaboration with Pedro Lavín

A book cover interpreting Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis, about a futuristic city that is supported by a machine city that dwells underneath it. A clean and streamlined book cover is ripped away to reveal mechanical forms that actually hold the typographic structure together.

Lettering for Design Bureau Magazine's Gift Guide 2011. The ribbon like letterforms are festive yet sophisticated which is the feeling that they wanted to convey. A set of numbers were also developed to accompany the products in the guide.

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A series of lettering around the theme of musical instruments. Each piece contains a term that relates to each instrument. In order of appearance: Adagio for Trumpet, Arpeggio for Piano, Glissando for French Horn, Vibrato for Violin, and Cithara
for Guitar.

A promotional email piece for Smog Design Inc. The idea was about 'Hot Fun in the Summertime' so the bright colors and concentric lines help to give the piece energy and excitement. The lettering/ cursive was drawn to fit perfectly inside of the Smog logo (the cloud).

Smog Design Inc.

Superstudio was a radical architecture group from Florence, Italy in the 60's. They gained their popularity for their theory based work, creating compelling images that carried deep critiques of modernism and globalization. The type on this poster expresses these ideas by a grid, representing the ubiquity of modernism, that begins to eat away at the existing letterforms/structures.

An event poster for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. The concert takes listeners on a probing journey of immense musical scope–with historical resonances that reach beyond the struggles for African American civil rights in the 1950's and 60's. We created a protest sign which was a staple of the public and social fight for civil rights.

*Collaboration with Bijan Berahimi

An infographic about California. The information presented ranges from state facts to ridiculous laws that still exist. California is home to the most interstate highways in the United States which is represented through the lettering on the poster.

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An independent project that explored the combination of a maze with letterforms. The goal of the poster was to play with the viewers ability to read the typography within the slanted forms.

*2011 Adobe Design Achievement
Awards Semifinalist

Band Poster for the Vintage Modernists set at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles. Different shapes and objects combine to create a unified image of color and harmony. The objects around the band members' names correspond to the instrument that they play.

A piece done for the 3rd publication of the RRR project curated by Scott Massey. The goal of the RRR project is to create new work by recycling completed works. So I took the lettering from a poster I had done recently and exhausted the lines while adding numerous amounts of color and texture.

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An infographic about various subway systems around the world. Each letter is constructed with information about each system which is represented through icons presented in the key. Info shown includes ridership, track length, no of stops, and ticket costs.

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*2011 Adobe Design Achievement
Awards Semifinalist