ACC Senior Show

This is a poster that I did for the ACC Graphic Design Senior Show. I was on the graphics team with three other people, and we collectively worked on the logo, though most of the credit should go to Anita Lam. The look and feel was developed by the team, which includes typeface choice, the date badge, and the stripy background. The illustration and the layout is all mine, however. I feel like this really embodies the look that I'm usually trying to for for. I like the simple, textured collage look, it reminds me of my childhood.

Three Posters

Here are three posters that I did for my typography class based on the Andy Warhol quote, "If you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

This one uses text filled with the repeated word "nothing." I know, it's very existential.

This one is obviously based off of Warhol's work, with a little surprise.

Finally, my favorite. The words make up a maze in which you have to follow the path to discern the quote. I love the irony of it.

Lobster Haiku

When I was in high school, a friend of mine and I wrote these ridiculous haiku for our creative writing class. Our teacher was so impressed with them that he recorded us reciting them so he could play the tape for his brother. I have been working on illustrating a few of my favorites, and will present them here.

Apollo logo

Here we have a logo that I designed for an Oracle-based internal business tool that we use at NI. The team that implemented the tool decided to call it "Apollo" (which appealed to me, as I had just finished BSG), who is the Greek god of the sun. So I went through a lot of revisions that used the sun in some way, and they settled on this one. I like it, but it kind of seems like a credit card logo to me.

This is the iteration that I preferred. It has this "outer space feeling" that reminds me more of the Apollo moon missions than the Greek god. I also feel that this logo has a little more depth.

The type in both logos is a hand-tooled type, loosely based on Futura. The goal was to take Futura's simple, geometric shapes and extend them. It almost seems like a Futura-Helvetica hybrid...

Cakewise logo

This is a logo that I did for my wife's cake business. She's really into owls, and I had this idea for this really cool vintage looking owl, but we didn't have a name yet. So I thought about it a bit, and I came up with Cakewise. Obviously, it works on several levels: it works with the owl because owls symbolize wisdom, and it works semantically because my wife is wise when it comes to cakes and she handles everything cake-wise. As far as type faces are concerned, I mixed Futura and Bodoni because I wanted to contrast a serif with a sans serif to make each word stand on it's own, and each typeface has it's own classic feel that plays off of the other in a really positive way. Finally, I chose brown and orange because they work with the owl, and I wanted to go for that 70's potholder look.

Thing in a Jar

This is my thing in a jar. I've been working on this for too long now, on and off. I got the idea for it here. My directions to make your very own thing-in-a-jar are as follows:

• Find a cool jar. Always find the jar first. It makes it easier to figure out the dimensions of your thing when you have the jar that it will live in.


• Buy some Sculpey (plain white is good) some acrylic paint, and some rubber cement.


• Craft your thing out of the Sculpey. Get crazy with it. The more organic, creepy and vague the better. After you're done forming it, bake it as per the directions.


• Paint your thing. I used flesh colored paint, as my source suggested, but I also added some green to give it another dimension. The flesh color does give it that classic thing-in-a-jar feel.


• Gob on the rubber cement. This has a two-pronged effect. It seals the thing from the water, and it gives it a grizzly sheen. Feel free to rough it up a bit for that skin-sloughing-off look.


• After everything is good and dry, place the thing in the jar, add some water and a splash of coke. The coke just makes the water murky, so if you really want to show off your thing, add less, if you want to create mystery, add more.

Now you have your very own thing-in-a-jar! My thanks to Phillip Torrone for the original idea.

Fez Monkey!

Finished this little dude today. He's from Creepy Cute Crochet. A good friend of mine gave my wife and I the book for our birthdays (which are very close together). The only problem was, neither one of us knew how to crochet. We had both been knitting for some time, but we'd never gotten around to crocheting. So a little while back we took lessons, and now it is one of my favorite hobbies.