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Designer, musician, and dog whisperer. I believe in collaboration, storytelling, empathy, and a sense of humor. Big-picture communicator committed to ego-free, collaborative hustle. Aspiring type designer whose practice is focused on motion, layout, user experience, and illustration. Welcome to my site.

projects

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Panza Grotesk

Type Design, Layout, Conceptual

Panza Grostesk is a bilingual type design based on the character Sancho Panza from “Don Quixote”. The design draws inspiration from early grotesques, specifically Venus (1907), and also the realist Johnston (~1913). The regular weight and accompanying risograph specimen booklet were designed in 2018–2019. More weights and styles are in progress.

Motion Reel

Animation, Compositing, Editing

Check out my motion reel! This is a showcase of hand drawn and traditional animation projects I’ve worked on, as well material from a larger green screen project I oversaw in the Winter of 2019 (case study for that project further down the page).

Lapham’s Quarterly

Print Design, Layout, Branding

Lapham’s Quarterly pulls from the full breadth of human history to curate literary mixtapes of wisdom on specific themes. In this redesign I drew on the inherent playfulness and mixtape-esque assemblage of the publication to rebrand and reimagine the reading experience of this beloved magazine.

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Domino

Animation, Video, Compositing, Narrative

This music video put a practical set and actors into wholly animated environments using After Effects and Premiere. The song is by my band, and the story is our spin on a classic trickster tale. The project was produced with Ali El-Gasseir and features the talents of Elijah Evenson and Linnea Ingalls.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Poster Design, Lettering

I re-read “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” before sketching out ideas for this poster. I challenged myself to explore imagery beyond the ubiquitous donkey heads, flower crowns, and moons on the many other posters and book covers I found in my research.

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Reading

The One-Straw Revolution —Masanobu Fukuoaka

Designing Type
— Karen Cheng

Emergent Strategy
— adrienne maree brown

Listening

Few Traces
— Mark Renner

Quiet Signs
— Jessica Pratt

Into the Heart of Love
— Woo

Using

FunkBox
— syntheticbits.com

Libby
— libbyapp.com

Colophon

Panza Grotesk
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