Design

What I See

I am enamored with the idea of perspective, and how this can impact a viewer’s response. This 11x17 inch risograph poster is composed with images of my eyes, captured by my ophthalmologist. The intent was to take the literal imagery of the state of my perspective and focus the viewer’s eyes on it, therefore enacting the idea of “seeing eye to eye”, and posing the question of whether it is possible to truly see inside another’s point of view.

Every Day

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A try to find each other on a daily basis, always unsure of what or who the next day will bring. Soon, the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours start to take its toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make.

The concept of this cover focused on the eyes being a “window to the soul”, and emulating the multitude of existences the protagonist, A, experiences each day. Each image was changed to black and white to unify them.

Hannibal (TV Series)

Synopsis: FBI profiler Will Graham is recruited by Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences of the FBI, to help investigate a serial killer in Minnesota. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter—who is secretly a serial killer and a cannibal—works to manipulate the FBI from the inside.

I relished the creation of this poster. I’m enthralled by texture, and very much enjoyed scanning water droplets at a high resolution along with all of the grit on the scanner. It lends itself to the mood/theme of the show, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

Line.

I designed the brand Line. for my mixed-media collage artwork that I sell both online and while tabling at various events across the city of Chicago. The art is typically housed inside used vintage brass frames from resale shops.

The goal of the logo design was to emulate the artwork itself; thin, continuous, detailed lines that closely mirror and at times overlap each other to create visual intrigue for the viewer. I chose to utilize the logo to create decorative symbols and further push that idea. The gold in the symbols reflects the framing of the art.

TRANCE

Synopsis: Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, joins a gang of thieves led by Franck (Vincent Cassel) to steal a priceless Goya painting. During the heist, Simon suffers a head injury and awakes with no memory of where he hid the artwork. When torture and physical threats fail to break through his amnesia, Franck hires a hypnotherapist named Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) to find the answer. But as Elizabeth probes the recesses of Simon's mind, the lines between truth and deceit start to blur.

In this design, I focused on the idea of being able and unable to see. The film focuses on the tenuous idea that reality is what you can see, hear, smell, touch, and feel. This, of course, is all thrown into chaos by the fact that the trance-like state the main character is thrust into muddies the waters of this very idea. Dream, memory, and reality are all blurred together until there is no frame of reference of whether something is a mere wish, is happening, or has already occurred.

The key focus of this poster is multiplicity. It is created utilizing the film title repetitively in varying colors and opacities, in various scales. This calls out shapes, letterforms, and layers in their own way, and is meant to exude a kind of chaos to the viewer.

Bauhaus

This 11x17 inch poster was created to emulate Bauhaus design by using simple shapes and negative space to imply form. To create original source imagery, I scanned images of my hands, moving them at times while scanning to create further movement.

So Much for (Tour) Dust

So Much (for) Stardust is the eighth studio album by American rock band Fall Out Boy. This design is for the 2023 North American tour show that was held in the city of Chicago. The key element is the image of the stars in the sky, and the title reflects the same image shifted in space.

Medium Magazine

Medium focuses on the broad range of media that art can be created with, and features artists from all backgrounds. The cover of this magazine was created with block-printing ink and a brayer on paper and scanned to represent the texture and depth of the media. The title itself is emphasized by only negative space on the cover. Each article emphasizes the work of a singular artist.