I wanted to break open the white light emitted from my iMac in order to see its composition. When I sprayed water on the monitor, the shimmering disco droplets acted as lenses, revealing the vibrant, harmonious inner-workings of RGB light.
Created for, and with, the teams at Prada and 2x4 for Prada Social Media. Quilted diamonds of Prada's Corsaire bags become portals to other dimensions, keeping with the concept — woman as traveler and gleaner of experiences.
2x4 Team — Michael Rock: Partner, Sung Joong Kim: Creative Director, Ryan Weafer: Design Director, Joshua Graver: Associate Design Director and Designer, Nancy Hong: Senior Project Manager, Beverly Liang: Strategy Director
This is a short edit of various projected motion graphics I created for/with Team Collective that were used in a larger promotional video for PBS / Art 21.
In addition to its Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast television series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Art21 produces the digital film series New York Close Up and Extended Play; and special artist projects including the Peabody Award-winning feature William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Art21 also creates educational resources and professional development programs; annual public programming; an online publication featuring guest contributors; and a comprehensive website at Art21.org.
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A project created at 2x4 with Lonni Tanner and Christoph Niemann—we turned a 24/7 nursery (where children are brought when they're removed from their homes for suspected child abuse and neglect) into a place of engagement and joy. The nursery is now activated with a wraparound mural that illustrates "A day in the city" (by Christoph Niemann), a coloring book take-away, a staff training guide, and 2 gallery walls for the children to display their work created while staying at the Center. Everything is designed to boost the childrens learning and critical thinking skills, while also engaging the staff. (Client: NYC Administration for Children's Services, for the Children's Center.
Studio: 2x4, Partner and Creative Director: Georgie Stout. Associate Design Director / Designer: Joshua Graver. 2x4 Architecture Team: David Regone (Designer), Amber Foo (Associate Design Director ), Chris Kupski (Design Director). Photos: ESTO/Albert Vecerka. Illustrator: Christoph Niemann
Various stills from various animations created for Prada to promote and advertise their fragrances.
Studio: 2x4. Creative Director/Partner: Michael Rock. Creative Director: Sung Kim. Associate Design Director/Designer: Joshua Graver. Senior Designer: Kee Kim. Project Manager: Brynn Johanna. Project Manager: Melanie Malkin. Writer: Natasha Stagg. Animation studio: Nathan Love. Music: Perfume Genius. Original footage: Steven Meisel.
“Aunt nell” is Polari—a (dead) gay-subcultural language from the U.K.—for “LISTEN!” I made this typeface by first designing and constructing a single stencil that would create the entire alphabet by aligning and overlapping shapes taken from iconic representations of sound waves (square/triangle/sawtooth).
This reader mimics the motion of a sound wave in transmission. A fluctuating system of paragraph tab indentations is initiated on the first page, and the number of paragraph tabs increases with each story, until you reach the 9th and middle piece (total of 9 tabs). Then, the system progressively moves back to its initial state, story by story. The radio static distortion page breaker images work within the tab system as well, but in a z-index—zooming in and out.
Collaboration with Carr Chadwick
At the heart of this identity was “The Yarrow”—a “Y” letterform mutated into an arrow that served as a modular brand, poster hang-er, and as a clear wayfinding system for visitors attending Yale Open Studios 2015. We printed the most important information for the event on masking tape and applied The Yarrow in, throughout, and between the three School of Art buildings (and shuttle buses). We also projected animations of tape covering (or closing off) the facade of Greene building on opening night.
Collaboration with Maziyar Pahlevan, Martin Bek, and Ben Fehrman–Lee
Tocanono is a personal cognitive behavioral therapy tool that helps hinder your compulsions to check your phone.
I animated photographs from the Smileface Museum's archive and created the music for this promotional video.
The Smile Face Museum was founded by Mark Sachs in 1992 in his Silver Spring, Maryland basement. It operated for 2 years in that location, with over 400 hundred items on display. In 2014, The Smile Face Museum will be installed in Brooklyn, New York in the basement of a private garden apartment. Its collection now encompasses more than 1000 objects, and it will be on display March 30-April 27.
The spring 2014 presentation of the Smile Face Museum is organized by Adrienne Garbini, and hosted by 228 1/2. The Museum will also feature exhibitions of contemporary artwork.
Design, animation, and music
When We Weren't Friends: a friend-sourced cassette tape-loop collage jam session through space-time, May 31, 2013 at Molasses Books in Bushwick.
Friends were asked to provide audio recordings of past projects from a time before we knew each other. These original files were transferred onto cassette tapes, randomly cut into loops, and placed within separate battery-powered handheld players throughout the bookstore.
Supplemental zines explored our shared experiences and struggles through spacetime.
Participants: Chris Beneke, Alex Decarli, Jim Gaylord, Ariel Goldberg, Liz Harris, Keaton Kail, Nick Lesley, Michael Marcelle, Ceci Moss, Thomas Wilk
With the help of Jonathan Zalben, I altered and wore a wireless heart monitor that triggered a kick-drum tone using Arduino and MIDI signals.
Jam band: Carr Chadwick, Sam Davis, Ben Fehrman-Lee, Yotam Hadar, Erin Knutson, and Tim Ripper
To promote a lecture for the former head of Doctors Without Borders (Dr. Unni Karunakara), we wanted to first create communications free of any written language—that instead used sound and motion. I filmed Martin as he spelled out the event details in flag semaphore movements while holding two iPhones with flashlights illuminated. I also recorded three classmates separately singing the word “borderless” in Morse code. On the night of the event we projected the video across the entire atrium wall while three separate sound systems played each audio recording—creating a major chord when heard together. The poster designs were created last.
Collaboration with Martin Bek
The Morse Code Choir: Erik Freer, Sasha Portis, Qiong Li