La Frontera: Enounters Along the Border is a jewlery exhibiton at MAD (Museum of Arts and Design) that explores the US-Mexico border (la frontera). The artists transform materials into representations of their experiences, their influences, their dreams, and their nightmares.

The exhibition's title wall was gouged (using a router)—creating a line that separates the english and spanish texts.

The main title is set in Commercial Type's Druk Condensed XX Super, mimicking the tall and tightly spaced border fence that eventually ends in separating ocean and sky at the California / Mexico border.

A graphic identity for Museum Sounds—an online initiative to promote 4 sound shows at 4 great NYC museums over the month of December, 2017: Museum of Arts and Design, Cooper Hewitt, Rubin Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Museum of the Native American.

Each graphic treatment is informed by varying sonic qualities such as amplification, vibrance, and resonance.

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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

An expandable and modular frame system created for The Museum of Arts and Design's exhibition: Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field, was carried out across all exhibition materials (print and digital).The top image shows how the gallery was divided into two artist studio spaces, with the wall graphic expanding into each. MAD hosted 2 artists at a time to work in the museum galleries (Cycle 1: Sarah Zapata, LJ Roberts; Cycle 2: Xenobia Bailey, Maria Hupfield). The bottom image shows how the graphic expanded across 3 frames on Instagram slideshows, allowing the user to swipe across each artists documented gallery space.

While working at 2x4, we came up with an updated cover system for Arper's 2017 materials to support their booth at Salone Del Mobile, all under the theme of togetherness — "It is at the center of everything we do. Arper collections build on a common design system of shell, base, accessories, material, and palette. Everything works together, flexible, coordinated for high performance."

Studio: 2x4. Creative Director/Partner: Susan Sellers. Associate Design Director/Designer: Joshua Graver. Designer: Min Choi. Senior Strategist: Margot Weller. Project Coordinator: Emily Green

This is an invitation package for the Hirshhorn Museum's 40th Anniversary Gala. It was printed offset on Crane's paper, with a blind embossed cover and metallic foil-stamped logo.

Depending on the circumstances, shame can be both a negative and positive force. This 42-page RISO printed book focuses on queer and ethnic shame within the 1960s NYC underground queer cinema scene. Figures such as Mario Montez, Holly Woodlawn, Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol are all collaged together in this complex exploration, focusing in on Puerto Rican artists within this community.

Special thanks to Ron Gregg (Senior Lecturer and Programming Director, Film Studies at Yale) for all the guidance and wisdom that led to creating this book.

This volume of Palimpsest, Yale’s Graduate Literary & Arts Magazine, is titled “Hybrid”, which informed how the publication was structured — each section is saddle-stitched separately and “grafted” into each other. This loose, yet ordered, form plays with the intended sequencing and juxtapositions of content, depending on how the piece is read — in full or in part(s).

The backgrounds of each page are scans of the previous issue (Volume VI) with the printed content (mostly) removed, creating a palimpsest of Palimpsest — a hybrid of the two volumes.

Designed with Ben Fehrman Lee and Biba Kosomerl.

This Spanglish poster reads in both English and Spanish. “Taller Lindo” translates to “pretty workshop” in Spanish. The poster was created to announce a workshop led by Linda van Deursen in the Yale MFA Graphic Design program. The display type was inspired by Boymans (Radim Pesko) which I made taller in the z-dimension.

WAVs Anthology aims to explore relationships between sound, music, politics, and technology in recent(ish) U.S. history.

The book is 144 pages and divided into four sections—Democracy / Oppression / Cityscapes / Music.

This is the first campaign that Pratt initiated to promote all of their end-of-year shows and Public Programs series across New York City. The campaign and sub-brand was carried out across all promotional materials for each department within the Institute, and also print / digital advertising in the New York Times, New Yorker, and New York Magazine.

The promotional mailer seen here was printed offset on 100% post cosumer paper with clear foil-stamping on the circular color markers.

Creative team: Me (creative direction), Kara Schlindwein (design), Peter Tannenbaum (photography), David Dupont (production)

Why can’t retail workers make ends meet? I worked with CUP and the Retail Action Project (RAP), along with Maxwell Sorensen (another CUP Fellow), to make a short animation about the changing scheduling practices in the retail industry. Shifty Business helps retail workers understand that their experiences are not isolated events but a systemic approach to cost-cutting by their employers. It also helps policy makers see the effect these practices have on workers’ lives.

Watch it here.

Story boards, design, animation, and music

Stop motion and music created for Areaware's online promotion and video installation at the 2012 NoHo Design District event to promote Harry Allen's glow in the dark piggy bank. Production: Lauryn Siegel

Sight Unseen write up here.

Stop-animation and music