Collection #3: visual journal

Well, now this is personal

A random feed of occasional updates, style explorations, visual inspiration, and curious finds. Plus, an eventual sample of client work that may not have made the cutting board, but I needed a place to keep obsessing over it.

Artifacts from the first round of a brand concept we presented. The client picked a different—also awesome—direction. More on that to be shared when they launch.

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Part of our latest submission to Demo Fest (Design in Motion Festival), rendered and animated by our very own Jason Dietrick. I did the image editing and UV mapping of our faces.

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A creative exercise series with theme of begginings. In this collage of public-domain images featuring the starting letters of the alphabet, each of the three letters also illustrates a different beggining. A is for Apple (A reference to the “original sin”); B is for the Big Bang (the actual beggining); and C is for caterpillar (the beggining of a butterfly’s life).

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My contribution for New Horizons, a risograph-printed publication where each member from the Upperquad team designed a page. My daughter and I turned our cardboard spaceship into the theme for this adventurous, hand-crafted and riso-textured artwork.

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When a devastating hurricane season brought heartbreaking destruction to North America, specially Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, Upperquad started a project called Beacon to raise funds for relief efforts. Dozens of artists and designers donated their time and talent. These two posters were my humble contributions. (More on the project here.)

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Another collaboration with my daughter—the real artist here—on a spring-themed artwork for our home office chalk wall. The plan was to replace it every season, but... I still haven’t had the heart to erase it.

I guess it’s spring forever now.