HAPPY MISC. & BLANK YOU
GREETING CARDS
These fill-in-the-blank greeting cards express any sentiment your heart desires. Letterpressed with love, they bring tidings, or whatever else, to their recipient for any occasion.
Fall 2010
Creative Ideation, Design, and Letterpress Printing
FLYING TIME SOUVENIR
A snow globe for that moment when you glance at the clock and exclaim, “What? It’s 4:30 already?!” Swirling elements of a fractured clock face echo our experience of time while playfully subverting our systems of measuring it.
Fall 2010
Creative Ideation, Design, and Craftsmanship
SWINGIN' ALPHABET
Inspired by Count Basie and his Big-Band Jazz Orchestra, this modular alphabet has syncopation and bounce. Each poster represents a different movement in Basie’s musical career—classic big-band swing and the more bluesy sound of his later years.
Fall 2010
Creative Ideation, Lettering, and Design
MARY POPPINS' STATIONERY SUITE
This system of correspondence was designed for none other than Mary Poppins, the practically perfect British nanny of the 1964 Disney classic. It incorporates elements of sensibility and whimsy to suit her stationery needs. It includes a ladylike calling card, a surprising postcard for quick notes, refined personalized notecards, and bottomless stationery for messages that require a bit more unfurling.
Fall 2010
Creative Ideation, Design, and Calligraphy
CLASSIC LITERATURE BOOK COVERS
Prototype of a system of book-jacket designs for a series of classic literary works, each with hand-lettered, and hand-cut titles.
Fall 2010
Creative Ideation, Lettering, Design, and Craftsmanship
PLATEMAKING HOW-TO
Handy reference for polymer plate making! Designed to restore order to the platemaking room and build confidence in the platemaker himself. Given as a gift of gratitude to Typecast Press in Baltimore.
Summer 2010
Creative Ideation, Copy Writing, and Design
BOOKISH: INVITATION PACKAGE
This two-part project combines a working prototype with a working spec sheet, designed in tandem to create a real world, print-friendly piece. The self promotional invitation is paired with a handbound take-away book at the event.
Spring 2010
Creative Ideation, Design, Copy Writing, Letterpress Printing, and Craftsmanship
BUILDING BLOSSOMS
This interactive play set was developed in partnership with City Blossoms, a non-profit, community-building, garden-planting organization based in Washington, D.C. The creative cut-out garden set contains over 30 pieces to build unique and dynamic blossoms, and to learn what’s needed to care for them, in the classroom or at home. Designed and produced in collaboration with fellow student and friend, Carolyn Williams.
Spring 2010
Creative Ideation, Illustration, Design, Screenprinting, and Craftsmanship
MICA MEDIA
Segment animation and title pages for a concept campus-wide television network. These screens help to entice and inform students about upcoming programs and events in areas of Community, Opportunity, and Creativity, with a bit of a twist between media and material.
Spring 2010
Creative Ideation, Design, Animation
BALTIMORE FARMERS' MARKET COMMEMORATIVE CARDS
This commemorative deck celebrates the vibrancy and variety of the local Baltimore Farmers’ Market, held on Sunday mornings under the Jones Falls Expressway—one of my favorite rituals. The deck of cards, as well as its miniature fruit-crate packaging, emphasizes the tactility of the marketplace experience and creates another link between farmer and feast.
Spring 2010
Creative Ideation, Illustration, Design, and Craftsmanship
BLANK IS BEAUTIFUL
This infographic poster pays homage to my extensive personal collection of blank books. Over 50 notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals, left for the most part in their perfectly plain form. A bit quirky, I know.
Spring 2010
Creative Ideation, Content Generation, and Design
SCRATCH THAT MAGAZINE
Scratch That Magazine combines my passions for design and cookery. The pilot issue, represented here, is a food-culture concept magazine that celebrates from-scratch cooking and empowers its readers to go forth, cook, and conquer.
Fall 2009
Creative Ideation, Content Generation, Copy Writing, and Design
KIDS HELPING KIDS IDENTITY
Kids Helping Kids is a start-up non-profit organization in collaboration with Girl Scouts of the United States of America. The program reaches out to children within Washington, DC’s foster care system to provide them with much-needed bookbags, suitcases, and toiletries.
Spring 2009
Creative Ideation and Design
VULVAS: A POP-UP COLLECTION
This set of pop-up books is designed to celebrate women and the part of their body that often hides between their legs. This collection aims to educate and empower women about their own unique and beautiful vulvas, and to create a platform for dialogue where a void once was.