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 […]
Work
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 feature some of the editorial designs I did through the years as the art director for Word Literature Today. A hybrid literary journal and magazine, WLT balances between satisfying its longtime subscribers and attracting new readers who aren’t necessarily aficionados on what’s trending in international literature. I worked with the BEST editors […]
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.”
Oklahoma Youth Sing
The client’s goal for this project was both a rename of their youth chorus and a new logo design. This project was completed with three rounds of revisions in two months with deliverables of a fresh logo and fully-fleshed out brand guide.
Mission Covid
I teamed up with journalists, artists, and translators to develop this website that delivers the stories of people in the Mission District of San Francisco who have been uniquely affected the pandemic. This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. How can you increase the impact of the story you tell? The […]
Austin Bat Cave Website
Austin Bat Cave offers writing programs that empower K-12 youth in Austin, Texas to find their voices and tell their stories. For this project, I teamed up with Lewis Carnegie to adapt their crisp design into a mobile-friendly website. I developed the Austin Bat Cave website on WordPress with a shopping cart powered by WooCommerce. The website features […]