Some new jackets I made this weekend.

Final piece for the school year; my last at SVA.
Special thanks to all of my wonderful design teachers over the years: Richard Mehl, Frank Young, James Victore, and Genevieve Williams. True educators.

In progress.

Brahma's gift is a compass for navigating through life.

A sketch I made this morning for a piece of type I'm going to work on. Hopefully I can have the end results by tonight.

Almost done. Just need to tie up the loose ends.

He met many tribulations on his way.

The dark night slowly
fades away to reveal a
dark day. I am blind

I write when I'm sad because sadness becomes comedy in writing.

I want to become
stardust; invisible yet
always beautiful

Simple choices made too fast.

Words from Vignelli
keeping me company, this
Friday afternoon



New format for my process book. New typefaces. New everything.

The blue is true.

Template for my portfolio website! Just using it to figure out the codes and stuff.

I am happy with this piece as an illustration, but it is not a compelling enough solution for The Pillowman.

I can't wait to mix the green for Michal's face in the silkscreen lab. A good green satisfies me.

Miles Davis splash page for my web design class.

Sketches for the interior pages:




Another version.

Fun with black paper.

Me reading a book in a house of my own.

Silkscreened it. Have to redo it because the L's feet is too long.

Tweaked Rilke

Print test.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Drawing the secessionist lettering was fun, but I'm going to make another cover for this book.

Edited version.

Print test.


Other versions.

Murakami Novels

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Norwegian Wood

ROUGH DRAFT for the Murakami jackets. Taking inspiration from dada typography because these novels are super dada. Basing my rules on Japanese katakana forms, and I'm going to add little motifs and icons from the novels. I want these jackets to have the look and feel of a Japanese two color print ad, so the color palette is going to change pretty dramatically.

Ender's Game

It took over a week of thinking and testing out a million different variations of typography and imagery before finally coming up with a cover I am satisfied with for this book. Or like Paula Scher says, it took a lifetime plus a week.

Size test from my inkjet. I'm going to silkscreen this with glossy black ink. Ignore the random math the book is sitting on.


Cutting everything off.

Happy Valentine's Day

Book jackets:
1. Mastering the Art of French Cooking (work in progress)

This is the perfect book for lonely bachelors on Valentine's Day. The most amazing thing I learned from this book was how to dice a whole onion with extreme efficiency, so I decided to illustrate that with an onion being masterfully attacked from both ends. I was influenced by Swiss design, because I wanted a cold, harsh, no nonsense book to keep me company on this holiday.

Full jacket:

Imagine a whole series of these books, one for each holiday, I would totally stock up:
Mastering the Art of Advanced Origami
Mastering the Art of Advanced Origami II
Mastering the Art of Morning Calisthenics
Mastering the Art of Applied Trigonometry
Mastering the Art of Graphic Communication
Mastering the Art of Indoor Gardening
Mastering the Art of Speed Reading
Mastering the Art of Mechanical Paper Structures
Mastering the Art of Coping
Mastering the Art of Self Back Massage

In fact, I'm going to go ahead and design jackets for a couple of these imaginary titles using the same visual language.


Test print on scrap paper. I added a bit of gold into the ink to make it nice and shimmery.

Theatre Posters

Silk screen posters for the Jack Creek Community Theatre in Nevada. This is a group of men and their wives who share a love of smart and edgy modern plays and enjoy fishing for catfish at Lake Mead on the weekends.

1. Little Murders


This is a play about random acts of violence in post-Kennedy America. I'm working on a series of three for this play: dead fish, dead birds, and dead turtles (except I don't really know what dead turtles look like...do they fall out of their shell or something? If someone could tell me that would be great).