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Shigeo Fukuda Posters

Some of my favorite posters by the great Shigeo Fukuda:           All available in the late Mr. Fukuda’s book Masterworks: Amazon Abe Books

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Gujarati Type Foundry

Some interesting type specimens from the Gujarati Type Foundry.         Super hi-res versions of these files are available if you buy Type: A Visual History Vol. II by my friend and former professor...

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2012: Year in Review

So. 2012 has been a pretty great year. I can honestly say it was one of my best. To [roughly] recap: I started out the year in Istanbul and toured Eastern / Central Europe for over a month whilst...

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Is this place that I have come to really Ithaca?

  Today, I got a reminder about just how amazing design is. In 2004, my dad (an architect) traveled from New Orleans to the AIA conference in Chicago. He brought back a shirt with Mies Van Der Rohe’s...

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The Dark Souls wordmark: a visual trainwreck, or a subtle work of genius?

Recently, I was fortunate enough to receive a game called Dark Souls as a gift. A medieval adventure game, DS has been touted as one of the most difficult video games of the last 10 years. It seemed...

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Saray

Menu design for Saray (Turkish for “palace”), a Middle Eastern restaurant in Boston. Traditional patterns were created to show the elegance and beauty of the restaurant’s Middle Eastern roots.    

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Grow / Wander / Find

These posters are studies of the forming of one’s personality. The patterns that make up each portrait are meant to show the different experiences that the subjects (in this case, myself and my friend...

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Nomadic

Nomadic is a start-up that is, essentially, a mobile clothing company. The company needed a logo that would be iconic, recognizable and bold in dense visual spaces such as city streets. Another...

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Typesetting

Typesetting is a documentary series that explores the relationships between graphic and type designers, their work and the cities they live in. The pilot 6-episode season was shot during one month in...

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Bombino – Azel

Tuareg desert blues with twists of reggae and rock n’ roll, Bombino’s Azel mixes the traditional with the modern. Tamasheq lyrics mix with reggae riffs and blistering, frenetic guitar solos to produce...

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UPS

With their brand damaged by late or missing holiday deliveries in 2013, UPS wanted to earn back their customers’ trust. The solution, executed by Ogilvy & Mather, was a social media and PR campaign...

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violents

Violents, aka collaborative music producer Jeremy Larson, teamed up with Monica Martin (Phox) to produce this one-of-a-kind pop record. Coming to the table with a consistent brand based in simplicity...

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Tender vinyl lp

Tender, an electronic duo from London, is a band steeped in modernity. Writing songs about the addictive and immersive nature of self in our world, their unique style reflects upon the...

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The Best of Ogilvy

While at Collins in New York, I was fortunate to work with the extremely talented Ben Crick and Brian Collins on this wonderful collection of Ogilvy & Mather’s work from the previous year. Basing...

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Cry

Cigarettes After Sex was in need of deluxe and limited edition packaging for their most recent album Cry. My starting point was the band’s distinct monochrome style rooted in the photography of the...

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