Meditate - lettering style & Ornament
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Meditate is a vector based lettering style that combines typographic form and ornament seamlessly. I developed it's original incarnation in 2009 after hearing an inspiring quote from Dale Cooper, a fictional character on the show Twin Peaks. I have since been using it for the basis of a bottle and label design for a health food start-up.
I hope to later develop Meditate into a full font using OpenType.
*Tumeric drink label design contains an unreleased font by Joshua Darden.
Hera - Font Family
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Hera is a font family in three weights. The family explores the motion and fluidity of the ball serif, in an evolution from its previous identity as a counterpart to the slab serif. The best of the classic slab fonts ingeniously used the ball serif as a means to terminate a stroke with rotational velocity. In this type universe the slab behaves like physics; the stroke hits the baseline and the impact pancakes it into the slab. As such, a stroke with rotational velocity such as the arm of the lowercase "r" terminates into a vortex, as if the ball serif were the roll to which the ribbon of the stroke was spooled onto. In Hera, there is far less slab, as the slab represents a physical byproduct of right angles and geometric form. Hera is informed by classical slab fonts like Clarendon, the wood type of
Vincent Figgins and the work of Herb Lubalin.
Hera is the product of my thesis project in the Parsons CD+T program, come see the exhibition at the 2 West 13th Street lobby in Manhattan on June 1st through the 6th, 2010.
Happy Stache - Font Family
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I have always loved the raw mix of stroked and contoured construction contained in German blackletter. Happy Stache is my exploration of some classic german blackletter forms as well as an integration of those monkey tail swashes and terminals I am so fond of. Happy Stache is a textface in two styles, but stay tuned for more styles and weights such as those prototyped in this poster
Designer Sucks - Font [click for more]
Designer Sucks is a juicy collection of bubbles inspired by cookies and the way they flatten out when baked. Imagine some cookie dough cut perfectly into some traditional sans-serif letters--then baked. The result is bubblicious!
SATE - Short Film [click for more]
Sate is a video project I did in the fall of 2009, for a class I took with Stuart Cudlitz at Parsons CD+T. I did the special effects with an improvised ink tank as well as a rig that consisted of a lightproof box with a matte black interior containing a grow light and plants. A camera attached to my computer via USB would take time lapse footage of the plants growing that could be composited using a luma matte in After Effects. I collaborated with Trevor Humphrey on the original score.
Patterns of Twelve - Musical Project [click for more]
Patterns of twelve was a musical project representing the experimentation of artist Trevor Humphrey and myself. Patterns of Twelve was created as a means for myself and Trevor to collaboratively explore auditory experiences aimed at reproducing the psychedelic. Download the album on the project website or check us out on myspace.
I directed this music video for a song on the album. The special effects were done by composing stop frame footage of my charcoal drawings in After Effects.
Happiness - Poster
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Happiness is a piece I created in the summer of 2009. Download a wallpaper for your desktop here. I have 38 silkscreen prints left for sale, they are 14 x 25 inches printed on fine Rives








