For the Birds

I'm making a bird kit for the Painted Bunting, a bird which resides in Texas. I'm going to make a booklet which has information about the bird along with a birdhouse and a packet of seeds. So far I've got a mock-up cover of the book and a couple of introductory pages. Don't know if this idea is going to stick. We'll see.

Dice Vase

I'm returning the SLR to school tomorrow, so I won't be able to photograph my stuff with a nice camera anymore. It really makes a difference.

Here's a project I did a couple of years ago. It was one of my favorites from back then. We were supposed to go to the dollar store and pick out things to turn into a product. I used balsa wood to make the box. Soooo easy to cut through that stuff! Love it mang.

Lecture Series Tickets

These are tickets I made to go along with a lecture series poster. Front and back.

Amateur sites.

I have just started working with Dreamweaver a couple of weeks ago. So far it is kicking my butt. I'm trying to finish up the You Orleans website by tomorrow morning and I only have two pages done. It's going to be a long night.

Tusk & Tail

This project was designed for Tusk & Tail, a menswear label specializing in vintage inspired suit jackets. The label was the brainchild of three friends who all possess impeccable taste and style.

The logo I created for Tusk & Tail is based off of a painting by a local artist. The design concept represents the modern traveling man, international culture and vintage style. I developed a variety of hang tags for the jacket as well as a patch to be printed and sewn onto the inside of the breast pocket.

Typographical Hierarchies

Created 50 postcard/invitations as a project for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The invitations were also a study in informational hierarchy. Each invitation pushed for different solutions - from abstract to structured. The invitations were printed and hand bound into a book. More images to come!

Glass Mountain

These spreads were designed for Glass Mountain, a literary journal for the creative writing department at the University of Houston. The journal's name is inspired by a line from Donald Barthelme's short story "Glass Mountain". The Glass Mountain, a skyscraper like the many we have here in Houston, represents the achievement of what seemed impossible when the writing students first began laying plans for their journal. Glass Mountain gives new voices a place to be heard, on the printed page and at readings and gatherings.

In this project, we were asked to develop a graphic essay that considers flow and narrative from spread to spread. I based my theme on the word "construction" and combined collaged images I found in architectural magazines and my dad's undergrad architecture portfolio (handmade and xeroxed from the 80's!) I chose minimal language in order to tell a story while still holding onto some mystery. The viewer is left to form their own judgments based on the pictorial narrative.

Back to the Futura

A poster designed to highlight the typeface FUTURA, which was designed by Paul Renner in 1928. I love this typeface and I often find myself choosing it as a starting point for different projects.

Experimental Typography

This project was based on experimental typography and shows how graphic design & type design can be organic and expressive. Looking for things around the house to use as type proved harder than I thought. But... in the end I really liked how they turned out. I think I'll revisit doing some more of these for future posters.

Masters Thesis Exhibition

Our class was asked to design a museum catalogue, poster, postcard and gallery wall for the annual Masters Thesis Exhibition held at the Blaffer Gallery. Surprisingly, my design was chosen to be printed and will be published at the end of March, 2010. I'm super excited and currently working on this project.

Lecture Series

These are posters designed for a fictional lecture series covering the subject of designing through the use of ethnography. The selected speakers are all well-known designers and anthropologists. The focus of the lecture is to help designers understand the importance of branching into different cultures and getting to know your audience on a deeper level than market research and interviews.

I am also currently working on this project and will update the finalized version soon!