Projects

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Record

A drawing

This ink drawing explores the journey a needles takes across a record’s surface. The end result is a texture that resembles the qualities found in a beautiful, worn record with all the pops, warps and scratches included.

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The Future of Social Media is Here:

onamountaintop.com

I do not enjoy most social media platforms. They seem more like popularity contests than anything else. I only say that because I have less than 200 friends on Faceplace. That’s why I developed onamountaintop.com with developer, Noah Bernsohn. At it’s most basic form, I believe social media is a dialogue. Onamountaintop.com allows users to say whatever it is they want to say with no accounts, no friends and no poking. Once the user’s entry fades to white, their words are gone forever. Just as one’s voice echoes into the valley from a mountain top. Pure poetry.

onamountaintop.com


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sameness

a book

“The Sameness,” as originally named by Lois Lowry, suggests a social balance through the rules of order and structure. All of life’s pain and spontaneity disappear through a rigid architecture of overwhelming conformity.

Our version of “The Sameness” suggests a similar new world order using modernist art and design fundamentals (following in the footsteps of such legendary influences as the Bauhaus and De Stijl), but rather than striving to eradicate imperfections we seek to celebrate variety and interpretation through common elements of line and color.

Inspired by the design theories and practices of Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, Theo Van Doesburg and Mark Rothko our goal is to continue exploring the range and depth of creative expression through the intersection of art and science.

blogged at FPO, AisleOne, Book By It’s Cover

buy it at thesameness.com

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A Flag

For GOOD magazine

This flag represents the neighborhood I grew up in — River Bend Circle in Exeter, NH. A perfect circle with 24 identical homes. One half of the circle is in a swamp where they face constant flooding and the other half is surrounded by dense forest where trees often fall on homes. To be fair, both sides have their issues with flooding and tipsy trees. When we were kids from season to season we were called upon to help remove fallen tree branches and clean our basements full of water. It sucked. Suburban bliss mixed with Mother Nature’s cruel devices.

More at GOOD

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A Sketch Book

For Scout Books

I was asked to fill the pages of a Scout Book, pocket notebook, for their new artist series. I was really excited for the opportunity to dig through my Color Aid paper, chop up various letterpress projects and get the old markers out. Here’s what I came up with.

Bigger photos on my Flickr.

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Cropolis

Chipping away at a typeface

This is a very work-in-progress typeface called Cropolis. Sound familiar at all? That’s because I took the beautiful H&FJ Acropolis as my base and started hacking at the serifs. I am by no means a type designer, so be nice. This study is nothing more than an exploration in abstraction.

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The Journey Show

at Golden Age

The Journey Show explored Bauhaus design theories and applied them to scarves, books, pins, posters, prints and t-shirts. A lesson in marketing art.

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Line and Composition

Studies based on The Journey Poster

After making The Journey Poster I started sketching on and photocopying the rejected comps. This is sample of that exploration.

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The Journey Poster

Extending the system

To advertise the Journey book (see next case study) we created massive double-sided newsprint broadsheets. We used the principles of the book—3 primary colors and shapes–to create a corresponding system in black and white using line variations to replicate value and form.

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The Journey

a book

Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see.

Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers celebrated both the beauty of form as well as the functional potential hidden within these 3 primary shapes and colors.

The Incredible Journey That is Consciousness invites each reader to interpret a landscape of symmetries, simplicities and geometric structures.

Buy the book

Reviewed by Book By It’s Cover

Blogged at Colour Lovers, Swiss Miss, FPO

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