My second project for doom metal band Harjo in 2022-3

Unlike my first project with them, this concept was developed from the ground up, based on the title track of the album. Magi wandering the desert searching for meaning are represented with meandering typography set over a dark, bleak landscape. Each stop on their journey is represented by a collaged vignette of various follies, culminating in the ultimate truth, that time is the ruler of all.

Check out their music here, or get your hands on some excellent merch!

Recruiting campaign for Aspen Dental, in conjunction with Chalk 242 and Bottle Rocket Media.

This was one of the biggest projects I’ve been involved with, and I was lucky enough to see it through from concepts, branding, messaging, casting, photo/video shoots, to production. Also got to work with some fantastic creative folks on all teams.

Art direction & design for Mobius Trio’s second album, featuring stitching by Cassi Medina.

Hear them on Spotify, or get a hard copy here.

Alternate and official artwork for new Annie Omalley single, Mrs. Nice.

Hear the track on Sound Cloud.

Check her out on Spotify.

Livestream concert series, sponsored by the Navy Exchange, produced by Collide, artwork and promotion by myself, Chalk 242, and Delicious Design League.

Components included social media stories and posts, daily email blasts, on screen graphics, and print collateral.

Technological innovation in construction was the common theme, and it brought dozens of companies together into 2 giant geodesic domes in Las Vegas.

Interactive displays, product demos, actual hovercrafts, and more all had to find space in here, and work together to create a vision of what cities could look like in the future.

1700 hours, local time.
6 US Naval bases.
6 daily livestreams every day of Memorial Day weekend.

This monster campaign faced the challenge of promoting musical performances rolling across the globe, targeting local audiences in Guam, Yokosuka, Bahrain, Norfolk, San Diego, and Pearl Harbor, as well as the larger global navy community.

A collaborative effort between the Navy Exchange team, Chalk 242, Collide, and Delicious Design League, utilized social media stories and posts, daily email blasts, onscreen graphics, and printed bag drops in Navy Exchange stores to push engagement.

Check out the Navy Exchange’s facebook page to see some of the performances!

Environmental graphics, identity system, and mascot for new Englewood neighborhood high school.

After lots of community feedback meetings and input from future admins, we landed on a radically new concept and identity for the school. Englewood’s racially tense and tragic history made it difficult to focus on an historical approach, so we focused on the future. Young professionals in STEM fields are represented in traditional african-inspired backdrops.

The subjects on the gymnatorium windows were selected based on activities that would take place there. Placing graphics on the windows required replacing some of the framing elements with glass transparency.

The Library was chosen as an opportunity to focus a bit on Englewood’s notable residents.

To create the tribal aesthetic, shapes and typography were hand-drawn before being digitized. Check out more of the illustrations here.

Design & layout for Silence and the Unwinking Minds album, Ephemeral. Limited run of 50, each hand numbered.

Check them out on spotify.

See more work I’ve done for them here.

My first of many projects for doom metal band Harjo in 2021.

A lot of the album artwork had already been agreed on prior to my involvement, so my task was to set type, design logotype, and create some atmosphere with the selected artwork, all while setting the stage for branding on future releases.

Awesome dudes, supremely heavy and atmospheric music.

Event branding for a post-tradeshow afterparty at Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific. Using a pencil, paper cutouts, and a few illustrator plug-ins, corporate Gogo branding was merged with the deep sea, if only for a few fleeting hours.

Brochures for Gogo’s entire product line, including satellite and cellular connectivity solutions, in-flight entertainment, live TV, and more.

Album and singles artwork and photography on Ephemeral single, layout & typesetting on all.

Check them out on spotify.

See this project take physical form here.

Express wanted to refresh their image and updating visuals around their headquarters was on the top of the list. Brand values were integrated into some of the higher traffic areas and featured prominently alongside current spokemodels.

Some highlights around the building are the entryway, main staircase, a timeline, and a selfie-wall. Brand style guide, desk drops, videos, and experiential print pieces were also part of the equation. 

Environmental design, wayfinding, showcases for Chicago-based inflight internet carrier, Gogo.

Identity and merch for Chicago 90’s cover band, Just Nikki.

Winner of HOW In-House Design Award, 2016

Based on interviews with 40+ tech and aviation CEO’s from around the world, this book aimed to explain what the Internet of Things means for the field of commercial aviation.

To make a cohesive visual system from so many wildly varying sources, we relied on heavy stylizing of photography with a decidedly low-tech solution: X-Acto knives and a photocopier.

Art direction from Jonathan Nielsen and illustrations by Alice Nita helped make complex systems into understandable lessons for newcomers.

Concept, content development, layout and illustration.

My in-house client wanted some charts and graphs to explain the concept of electromagnetic signal latency, and why it affects you more in an airplane than in your house or in a car.

Rather than just tell viewers what latency means, my copywriter Rasheed Brown and I decided to demonstrate it with a loooooooong-scrolling infographic and splash page. For the less patient among us, we also made a short version.

A pocket-sized handbook for the flight attendants of Delta Air Lines. The booklet details the ins & outs of Gogo Internet Service.

Logo redesign and album design for contemporary classical guitar trio. See/hear some of their work here.

Tradeshow booth design for Gogo, based loosely on biological diagrams from textbooks in coordination with the release of the book “The Anatomy of Inflight Connectivity”

Northcoast-themed save-the-date, wedding invitation, and programs for two love birds.

Short-term identity design for the company selling internet in the sky. The card presentation (envelope holding card w/die cut and supplemental materials behind it) was intended to reference the experience of getting a plane ticket in the 1970's, when flying was still classy.

Illustration and design for booth at Aircraft Interiors Middle East expo in Dubai, 2014

Tradeshow booth and identity system for Gogo's presence at the APEX 2014 tradeshow.

Note: I’m not responsible for this headline.

Album design for San Francisco based classical duo Jarring Sounds.

Tradeshow booth and one of several accompanying advertisements for Gogo, provider of internet in the sky.

Identity, recruiting materials, programs for local amateur choir group.

Album design for classical guitarist Giacomo Fiore. Cover art by Peter Beckett. Album available for purchase or download here.

Poster design and tradeshow graphics to raise awareness for recycling previously unrecyclable blended plastics into weather resistant railroad ties.

Print advertisements promoting a new type of environmentally friendly keg.

Packaging for a model 747-400, commemorating Ku-band satellite antennas on all Delta 747's.

Livery for Gogo's test lab in the sky.