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Every beautiful outcome starts with a messy challenge. Please enjoy browsing through my last five years of creative strategy, brilliant colors, and awesome brands.

All case studies

14 projects, newest first
ReedPop /

Signage Workspace

Two people at one monitor, reviewing the signage board with live comments and the budget panel open
An empty desk in silhouette against an orange wall, the monitor still showing the proofing screen
Advanced Scaffold /

Digital Brand Launch

Digital Brand Launch
The one-pager
The PERI UP leg, rosette and ledger in the modelling viewport, edges visible
The Advanced Scaffold one-pager on an iPhone
RX Global • C2E2 /

Social Content System

Guest announcement card: Elizabeth Olsen in black and white in the red frame, WandaVision credited
Group cast card: Kratos and Atreus artwork for the cast of God of War, Judge and Suljic credited
Comic artist card: Jenny Frison
Announcement card: a champion lifts a trophy, Cosplay Central Crown Championships applications open
Guest card: Tom Kenny on a yellow frame with SpongeBob and the Ice King drawn in at the corners
Show information card: will call hours for all four days, black chips on the red gradient
Group cast card for Pokémon: Ash and Serena split the frame, Natochenny and Paschall credited
Guest announcement card: Sarah Natochenny with Ash Ketchum leaping in beside her name
Panel highlights card: a live cooking demonstration on stage with comic creators at C2E2
Guest card: Elijah Wood in black and white, Lord of the Rings and Over the Garden Wall credited
Guest card: Sean Astin on the blue and green frame, The Goonies and Lord of the Rings credited
Show feature card: a wizard in a wide grey hat smoking a long pipe announces The Tavern
Comic artist card: Ryan Ottley
Group cast card: Emily Rose, Nolan North and Richard McGonagle beside their Uncharted characters
Panel highlights card: a dancer mid move at the C2E2 press wall, dancing panels included with entry
Guest card: John Rhys-Davies on the orange frame, Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings credited
Announcement card: Sith cosplayers posed as a family portrait, meetup applications close February 4
Guest card: Haven Burton Paschall laughing on the teal frame with Serena kicking in beside her name
Guest card: Christopher Judge with Kratos standing at the corner, God of War and Stargate credited
Story title card: DAY ONE in white slab type on the red C2E2 gradient
Artist story: Tula Lotay
Guest story: Tyler Hoechlin photographed in a stairwell, Superman and Lois and Teen Wolf credited
Story title card: DAY TWO on the blue and green C2E2 gradient
Artist story: Javíer Rodriguez
Info story: a stormtrooper cosplayer under the C2E2 hotel block announcement with a Book Now button
Story title card: DAY THREE on the orange C2E2 gradient
Artist story: Hiroshi Kanatani
Artist story: Terry Moore
RX Global • New York Comic Con /

Livestream Graphics

NYCC Livestream Studio View
NYCC Livestream Ended
RX Global • New York Comic Con /

3D Campus Maps

Signage View 1
Signage View 2
NYCC Map Level 1
NYCC Map Level 2
NYCC Map Level 3
NYCC Map Level 4
NYCC Map Level 5
Texture Details
Brain Sinew /

Experiential Portfolio Motion

RX Global • Emerald City Comic Con /

3D Show Maps

ECCC Maps S0
ECCC Maps S1
ECCC Maps S2
ECCC Maps S3
ECCC Maps S4
ECCC Maps S5
Application
Signage View
Signage Closeup
Pine Staircase
Pine Staircase Reference
Entrance
Entrance Reference
Gardner Design • Emprise Bank /

Anniversary Event Identity

Emprise Bank Reunion Logo
Reunion Theme Graphic
Anniversary Event Graphic 2
Anniversary Event Graphic 3
Anniversary Event Graphic 4
Emprise Bank Email Design Layout
Event Collateral 5
Event Collateral 6
Event Collateral 7
Event Collateral 8
Reunion Identity Application 9
Reunion Identity Application 10
Event Vibe 11
Event Vibe 12
Event Vibe 13
Event Merchandise 14
Event Merchandise 15
Event Collateral Wrap 16
Event Collateral Wrap 17
Gardner Design • City of Dodge City /

Downtown Cultural Murals

Downtown Cultural Murals
Cattle drive mural: a drover rides through a herd of longhorns under a painted DODGE CITY wordmark
Front Street mural: a cowboy and a woman on the boardwalk, a stagecoach and locomotive beyond
Folklórico mural: dancers in wide skirts of orange, blue and rose turning across the full panel
Close view of the drover and lead longhorns, with the painted wordmark breaking behind them
Close view of the cowboy at the left edge of the Front Street panel, painted on weathered clapboard
Close view of a woman in a purple dress and plumed hat on the boardwalk by the Long Branch Saloon
The far end of Front Street, a stagecoach crossing toward a waiting locomotive under evening cloud
Marker sketches of Dodge City lettering variations beside a quick rider and herd thumbnail
Marker composition thumbnail for the cattle drive panel, wordmark arcing over the rider and herd
Pencil composition thumbnail for Front Street, faces at left and the street receding to one point
Pencil perspective study of the Front Street boardwalk, construction lines to the vanishing point
Pen composition thumbnail for the folklórico panel, dancers spaced across the full width
Loose pen gesture studies working out skirt movement and dancer poses
Presentation board of all four style directions side by side, each painting the same lone rider
Graphic style direction: the rider reduced to flat purple silhouettes against a burnt orange sky
Nocturne style direction: a rider in pale blue crossing a dark valley under a deep night sky
Painterly style direction: a rider drawing a knife, painted in warm broken brushwork on a pink sky
Photographic style direction: a rider on a ridge at dusk, rendered with almost no visible brushwork
Lettering test: a halftone, screen printed DODGE CITY treatment laid over the nocturne rider
Greyscale value study of the full cattle drive panel, wordmark and herd as flat steps of light
Greyscale value study detail, testing how the rider reads against the letterforms behind him
Untextured 3D blockout of the whole Front Street set: storefronts, boardwalks, rail line and church
The installed cattle drive mural with a person standing against it, longhorns at roughly life size
A crowd gathered in front of the finished mural at the public dedication
Gardner Design • ICW Group /

Holiday Microsite

Holiday Microsite
.Monks • Autry /

Brand Book & Tone of Voice

Brand Book & Tone of Voice
Opening page: the Autry Action People wordmark and flag centred on white
Contents page: the six sections set as stacked red and blue bars rather than a numbered list
Brand Story divider: one outlined arrow cutting the page corner to corner
Born with an Attitude: the 1977 origin set in white stripes across a full red page
Reborn and Revived: the 2019 relaunch page built from an oversized flag
Mission page: action people make the world a better place to live, set against a full red arrow
Positioning page: when you think about Autry you think about action people, set in tight uppercase
Respect the logo: the entire misuse section handled in a single line of small text
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 01: introduction and contents thumbnails with the angle match grid
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 02: brand story spreads thumbnailed in pencil
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 03: values and image pages roughed out at thumbnail size
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 04: the logo section, noting how not to treat the logo is pretty obvious
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 05: typography and colour spreads planned in sequence
Hand drawn flat plan sheet 06: visual language and inspiration pages, an alternate layout alongside
Logo construction drawing: wordmark and flag on a grid with the monogram
Identity System divider: a red page split by the outlined arrow
Logo construction page: the lockup on its grid with clear space and the shared diagonal marked
The A monogram shown on its own at size, the arrowhead reading before the letter does
The arrow used as a full page graphic element in Autry Red
Colour page: Autry Red, American Blue and Off Black as stacked stripes rather than swatch chips
Selected fonts page: the two type families set out with full character sets
The Autry A: the brand
Action, Authentic, Ageless stacked to show the brand A substituted into real words
Headline rules page: uppercase for short titles, lowercase for long ones, tight spacing and kerning
Autry Filter page: the same photograph shown twice, once in red duotone and once in blue
Scanned torn paper edges, the raw texture the print stripes were built from
Press ad: two sneakers photographed across torn paper stripes in Autry Red and white
Red printed invitation: blind wordmark envelope, handwritten payoff and the Icons and Legends card
Printed invitation in navy: the same set shown with the wordmark running across the envelope flap
Digital invitation set: Icons and Legends in red on black with the lockup and venue details
Digital invitation set: the FW23 cards built on the outlined arrow with the Milan address and time
Business card page: the card shown front and back in navy and white
Packaging page: the shoe box carrying the arrow across its lid
.Monks • Zegna /

Oasi Born in Zegna

Personal /

A Publication for Emerging Creatives

A Publication for Emerging Creatives
Styoudent Hero 2
Styoudent Full Spread 1
Styoudent Hero 3
Styoudent Closeup 1
Styoudent Closeup 2
Styoudent Closeup 3
Styoudent Closeup 4
Styoudent Closeup 5
Styoudent Page 1
Styoudent Page 2
Styoudent Page 3
Styoudent Full Spread 2
Personal /

A Live Music Visual Production

Song 1 - Shot 2
Song 1 - Shot 3
Song 3 - Shot 2
Song 3 - Shot 3
Song 3 - Shot 4
Song 4 - Shot 2
Song 4 - Shot 3
Song 5 - Shot 1
Puntine CD Design
Puntine Poster 1
Puntine Poster 2
Puntine Ticket Design 1
Puntine Ticket Design 2