Filed Under ‘Illustration’

February 8, 2010

Designing Local Currency – Meat Money

When I was assigned the Meatpacking District for my designing local currency project I knew I wanted to incorporate its rich and varied past in my designs.

I created a set of five bills that reflect the period of the neighborhood’s history when it was a functional slaughterhouse district set in contrast to the 1980s and 90s when the neighborhood was revived as a center for nightlife in Manhattan.

January 15, 2010

Starbucks Barista as Interface

Much like the IBM punch card machines that begun an era of computing, the baristas take a command from a customer, translate it to a language the system can understand, and produce another form of output at the end: a beverage. To articulate this process, I created a distillation diagram to show that plain English is translated to Starbucks short-form, which acts as a set of instructions for the production of physical output.

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January 5, 2009

Time To Talk

The client wanted a friendly and approachable site that makes the issue less intimidating for parents. Since its release, the site has been maintained by a third party.

Awards in 2008 include: American Graphic Design Award, two W3 Silver Awards, and two Web Communicator Awards of Distinction

January 3, 2009

Meth360 Animations

The drawings illustrate different methamphetamine facts and statistics provided by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

January 2, 2009

Fabulous Williamsburg

For my final project in a silkscreen class, I decided to make an ironic travel card from “fabulous Williamsburg.” I made an edition of 40: half on white, half on black.

5" x 6.5"