February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and today I’m pleased to share this video I collaborated on with Ruben Deluna Creative. My work on this 2-minute animation includes infographics and typography design throughout. The statistics are based on UNESCO’s 2021 Science Report that analyzes gender bias in science and […]
Work
REED London
REED London is a prototype online collection developing from the Records of Early English Drama (REED) in partnership with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) and supported by Bucknell University. This digital humanities project aims to establish an openly accessible resource of London-centric documentary, editorial, and bibliographic materials related to performance, theatre, and music spanning […]
Oklahoma Youth Sing! Website
With Oklahoma Youth Sing!’s recent renaming, the youth chorus needed a fresh website to pair with their relaunched branding that we completed in 2020. The website features fresh copy, photography, videos, fonts, and type hierarchy native to their new style guide. The homepage provides entry points to all the core sections of their website. One […]
Brightmark – Make Your Mark – Hand Lettering
I partnered with Ruben DeLuna Creative and Nirvan Mullick to create childlike hand lettering in this animated video for Brightmark. This educational short includes dinosaurs, pyrolysis, and more science-y stuff that explains Brightmark’s circular approach to turning commingled plastics back into wax and oil that can be reused. A couple short clips of my lettering […]
Vessel Coworking 2020 T-Shirt
I’d seen enough mask-themed swag for 2020 that I decided to pick Austin’s great outdoors to earmark a year weathering a global pandemic. My illustration features the Congress Bridge at sunset, enveloped by Bald Cypress trees and the iconic bats forming the Vessel Coworking logo. Time in nature was thankfully not canceled in 2020, and […]
Writing Gifts presented by Naomi Shihab Nye & Austin Bat Cave
Client: Austin Bat Cave Collaborators: Naomi Shihab Nye & Emily ChammahPrinter: Spencer Printing Inc. This little beauty of a book radiates warmth and positivity. My concept for Writing Gifts required some die cutting and I started out sketching how the book would fold open. I wanted something that mindfully involved the process of opening the […]
Dispatches from the Republic of Letters
This handsome hardcover anthology features the literary world’s finest from Gabriel García Marquez to Edwidge Danticat. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, this book collects writings by the prize’s laureates over the years. I remained minimal in the design for this anthology leading with bold lettering and a […]
In the Days of Our Undoing
In the Days of Our Undoing: September – November 2020 is the third book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”
Magazine Covers – World Literature Today
These covers for World Literature Today span from 2018 to 2020, and my involvement in all of these includes art direction, typography, and design. I also directed the photoshoots for the covers with Margarita Engle, Edwidge Danticat, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the illustrations for the Graphic Nonfiction and Hong Kong covers. The Music & Lit […]
Magazine Design and Layout – World Literature Today
The following selections highlight some of the editorial design, page layout, typesetting, and art direction I did through the years at Word Literature Today. A hybrid literary journal and magazine, WLT teeters in a delicate space of satisfying its longtime subscribers but also attracting new readers who aren’t necessarily aficionados on what’s trending and relevant […]
In the Days of Our Unrest
In the Days of Our Unrest: June – August 2020 is the second book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”
In the Days of Our Seclusion
In the Days of Our Seclusion: March – May 2020 is the first book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”