Assignment: Design promotional posters for the fictional play assigned, using Xerography methods.

Medium: Brush Pen, Photoshop, Cintiq, Xerox machine

Playing off of the title, I chose to keep the illustrations inky and hand drawn. The puddle in the first poster draws the eye, creating interest by causing the reader to question what it is composed of. The second poster puts the viewer right in the action, and utilizes purposefully blocky sections of color to remind the viewr of the printing process.

Assignment: Using Adobe Illustrator, design a repeating decorative pattern.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator

The jumping point for this project was to use a flowery, decorative shape to depict blood. My goal was for the design to be mistaken for a festive sweater pattern from a distance, but tell a darker narrative up close.

Assignment: Design a can wrapper for a product of your choice, based on a designer of your choice. Include a secondary piece of promotional design.

Medium: Pen, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

I chose Michael Deforge as my designer for his striking imagery, which always draws the eye. I chose popcorn for the product because butter fit perfectly into Deforge’s drippy, slimy imagery. The design beside it is a page out of a companion, popcorn-themed zine, intended to be tastefully offensive.

Assignment: Create a poster based on a topic of controversy, with the intention to cause a stir.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

At the time of this poster’s creation, gun rights were a hot-button issue, so that seemed like the best topic. Produced in a purposefully loose style, using straight-edged fields instead of carefully coloring the image.

Assignment: Develop a poster and CD cover booklet for a fictional band and album.

Medium: Pen, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign

Finit is a fictinal alternative progressive rock band. The design and illustration is based on a theme of severance, an extension of the band’s name. The first spread is the front and back cover, and the second is the interior of the booklet. I used a real record label, Inside Out music.

Assignment: Develop a typeface, and produce two posters; an advertisement, and a type specimen.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Fonstruct

Our typeface had two limitations; it needed to fit within a small box and be built out of a specific set of units. My font was developed to evoke sarcasm, like wax dripping off a candle. I developed a secondary typeface to give the impression of even more emphasized sarcasm, Sarcasmic: Drip.

Assignment: Produce an art book out of a pre-existing body of text, while experimenting with layout and type design.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Bologna

This assignment was considered experimental, so I tried to mix things up on every page. The text comes from a book titled “A Philosophical Essay on Credulity and Superstition”, written by Rufus Blakeman in 1849.

Assignment: Complete 10 short-term projects based on a list of prompts, and collect them in a book to be ordered and printed through Blurb.com.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign

Unlike the previous book project, this was intended to be very toned down and formal. Our goal was to maximize readability and efficiency. This is a spread from the completed book, displaying a repeated pattern used for wrapping paper. I based it heavily on my previous repeating pattern design, but instead focused on the visual relationship between the carrot and the accidentally chopped finger.

Assignment: Create three international style icons for the Noun Project, for nouns that are not yet represented. Upload them and meet their requirements.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator

The Noun Project is an online database of small, black and white icons created in an effort to create a visual language that can be understood by people of all countries. My words were sleepwalking, puppet, and joke.

Assignment: Produce an accordion-fold book that teaches the reader how to do something without any text.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign

This project focused on the effectiveness of imagery, forbidding us from using any text, even on the cover. I decided to make my book about cooking a runny egg. I chose an analogous color scheme of yellow, green, and blue to keep things simple. I simplified the person almost to the bare minimum, in order to create a gender neutral figure.

Freelance: Produce 100+ detailed illustrations to be used as icons for a web-based videogame.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop

These illustrations come from a freelance illustration job for IceDice inc. This project served as great practice, as my client was Russian and spoke only very little English. We worked together heavily, finding a speedy and effective solution for all icons.