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Hola. Hello. Bonjour. Guten tag. Ni hao.


I illustrate and I design.
@ the Maryland Institute College of Art.

It's between Baltimore and Houston right now but it won't be for long.
(I'm graduating soon.)
I like to travel- or atleast I think I do.
Yes. I think I like to travel.

[3/5/10] ** New Poster work: Senator Movies

New work for poster design. The Senator Theater has a long standing history in Baltimore. It's a art deco-esque building with one large giant screen that only plays select movies. The idea was to design a visual system that is individual to the Senator Theatre but should be appropriate yet cohesive no matter what genre. I tried to be as diverse as I could with my selection of films.

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[2/20/10] ** New Poster work: Process

Process poster charting the first week of my creative process for Joe Galbreath's Poster design class. Red is the amount of time I spend sleeping, something I do alot of. The green, blues and yellows to the right hand side is the creative process involved in the first inital week. There's about an equal amount of brainstorming, research, and execution involved - only in the first week though. Had I kept track of the entire amount of time it took to finish this assignment there would be alot more yellow as there was alot of tweaking and color changing involved.

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[12/20/09] ** New Misc. Print work: Barf Bunny Pencil Box

An assignment to repurpose a cardboard box (that we had to painstakingly craft ourselves).
I remember those retro cardboard boxes that were so popular in the 80's. Granted I was born in '88, but my older sister had a few of them in her desk drawer.
A throwback to the 80's. My homage to a time when triangles, teal blue and hot pink rampaged across children's desks and bookcovers. If you don't know what I'm talking about here's a few: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. I was all about the Lisa Frank at one point.

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[12/28/09] ** New Packaging work: Fruit Fit Bra

**[Featured on Lovely Package]

“This is a concept for a “RePackaging” assignment in which I chose to repackage bras. The packaging was inspired by a KBG commercial in which a young man asks how to tell his girlfriend’s breast size. The answer was to simply relate them to a piece of fruit: “Are they apples, oranges, or grapefruits?”

I thought it was a hilariously cute ad and decided to create a line of bras whose packaging corresponded with the appropriate fruit sizes. A cups are apples and B cups are oranges and etc. Since the concept was very “fruity” in nature, the dingy hangers that lingerie normally came with seemed no longer appropriate as I wanted something light and playful.”

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[Fall/09] ** New Poster Work: How-To Be Texan

Poster for Joe Galbreath's DIY class. It teaches the ways of being a true Texan and comes with a free Make-You-Own Cowboy Hat! Simply just cut along the dotted lines and glue. Poster was life size which meant when unrolled it stood at about 6.5 ft tall. Unfortuantely it got ruined in the rain one afternoon while I was trying to bike uphill with it strapped to my back. It was a sad day for all aspiring Texans.

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[Fall/09] ** New Poster Work: Cotton Jones

For Experimental Type class taught by the duo that is Post Typography- Nolen Strauss and Bruce Willen. This is a music poster for Cotton Jones who were playing at the local Ottobar. This was part of a class project where everyone got assigned a different band to design posters for. Very much enjoyed this assignment as it turned out just as well as when I first envisioned it in my head- and that RARELY ever happens. Hurrah.

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[can't remember] ** New Poster Work: Ten/Fold

Probably one of the only projects that I've decided to post that didn't spawn from a graphic design class. This particular piece was from a digital illustration class taught by Jose Villarrubia. The assignment was to create something that played with textures and laying effects.

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[can't remember] **Packaging Work: Old-Man Tea

Tea packaging inspired by my dad. He drinks alot of tea. He drinks it like its air. Done for Ellen Lupton's Type I course.

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