Feast is a project where my main concept was an eco friendly meal kit delivery service where they provide their products in reusable containers. My good friend is a canning hobbyist and often gives out gift baskets of her hand canned goods. They always have plain labels and I wanted to give her a beautiful method of presenting her tasty canned goods to everyone she gifts them to.

Design collateral

Logo

Business Card

letterhead

jar labels

bread labels

Milk carton’

recipe card

meal list

Mail in advertisement

labels for containers

Website landing page

Website sign up form

Style book

I was challenged to make a new book cover every week with the goal of becoming better at vectoring and hand lettering.

“The Charming Cryptids podcast”

A dating advice column talk show

Subject and content: I wanted to brand and produce merchandise for a podcast. The podcast format would be a dating advice column hosted by three cryptids. Half ARG with fan participation and an ongoing B-plot carried by the hosts of the podcast (Mothman, Big foot, and the Jersey Devil.)

Genre: Comedy, Augmented Reality Game, Dating advice

An overarching theme of “otherness” made me consider a retro design as I want to emphasize in the design the sense that these hosts are from a different point in “reality” then the listener. The strangeness of monsters giving dating advice to average humans punctuated by familiar aesthetics and relatable demeanor of each of the unfamiliar hosts.

Stylistically I approached this project with a midcentury modern aesthetic with a bright and vibrant color palette. The characters are cute and satirical, and have a paper cut out feel to them. I wanted the illustrations to be a little more complicated than the overarching aesthetic.

Key influences: Cryptids, Mothman, the lochness monster, Welcome to nightvale

Proposed methodology: By creating an appropriate logo, and design materials to legitimize the project. The design series would include, posters, an itunes cover, a website for the podcast to live on, promotional materials, Logo, business cards, and tickets for live shows.

My strategy is to assume the podcast is successful and create a system of branding that fit a stylized and friendly aesthetic that offset or contrasts the subject matter of the podcast.

Podcasts sometimes publish under a partnered network of programming. Such as the Max Fun network. It is a good way to gain popularity as a show, but The Charming Cryptid Podcast will not be pitched to a network to retain full creative license.

Design Collateral:

Logo mark

Branding page

posters

t shirts

album covers

fictional dating app interface for “ Monster Mash”

webpage for the podcast to be listened to on.

coffee mug

A pair of posters that tasked me with visualizing an auditory experience.

For inspiration my class was assigned the Christopher Nolan film score for Inception. The songs I visualized were “Mombasa” and “The Dream is Collapsing”

In order to do so effectively my peers and I were assigned research to better understand what we were going to visually translate.

Attack/Decay

Loudness

Pitch

Timbre

Rate of Change

Register

Location

Duration

Order

These are all the considerations I had as I tried to relate the principles to Icons and then to use those icons meaningfully to visualize the song.

This is an article I wrote, about the process of a conceptual painting series I worked on for 15 weeks. I painted 15 panels and laid them in the woods to rot at week intervals so they decayed in a staggered fashion. The spreads are featured in a theoretical issue of Fukt Magazine: Process through drawing. These spreads take my writing and documentation and then curates them in a relaxed fashion. This project was fairly personal to me and it was interesting as an experience to take my fine art, write about it, then use my skills as a graphic designer to take a very complicated concept and cook it into something that is easy to digest.

This is a label and logo for Cincinnati style Chili. This project was conceptualized when I was challenged to make four Icon based off of the city I was born in, Cincinnati, and then to take those icons and use them to create packaging for a product of my choosing. To keep it thematic I stuck with a Cincinnati favorite.

Design Collateral:

Logo set

Packaging design

I was given a 12 week challenge to explore one skill and form a series of applied design weekly. I have compiled ten of the most successful in my series of infographics. The topic of my series is fluids and my goal was to explore visually translating information. as an additional challenge to myself I came up with a logo/ icon per week to match the infographic I made. The brand names were all the names of gods from world mythology.

Design Collateral:

10 brand logos

10 mocked up product images

10 infographics

10 icon sets

The first three books in the Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Using primary colors and scale silhouettes to give a distinct impression of the larger than life magnificent Sherlock  Holmes

Honest Tea is a brand of tea and accessories. I constructed a new logo and color palette to better reflect their product and brand goals. Honest tea is a brand that prides itself on its modern values and healthy living. I used color, typography, illustration and photography to frame the brand in a way that would appeal to their target audience.

The jackets for my self promotional pocket sketch books

My gala poster.

A conceptual map of tourist destinations in Japan.

Fairy dew is a display font meant to be used with whimsical fairy tale titles. Best used for childrens books.

Creepshow is a display font perfect for a creepy title, heading or catch quote.