This latest and frankly largest project was a completed in December of 2008. It is a book of the names of the Virgin Mary. it is hand bound in the drum leaf style and contains no pictures other than the symbol on the front cover. With 160 thick pages, the book itself is fairly hefty.

I know that very few people get as excited as i do about his book, but inside are the hopes, sorrows and anger of thousands of people crying out. As each page was placed each page in the book I read them:

Mother of those who are betrayed, Mother of those who are arrested in the night, Mother of those who are imprisoned, Mother of those who suffer from the cold, Mother of those who live in fear, Mother of those who were subjected to interrogations, Mother of those who are subjected to interrogations, Mother of those innocents who have been condemned…

and it goes on.

There's more to this than one would first look at.

Every year Dominican University Welcomes its new Students with Welcome weekend. It starts with Academic Convocation and continues with a giant outdoor festival called DU Fest. Each year has a new theme and therefore a new logo. In 2008 I designed the Welcome Weekend logo. The theme was "Step Right Up!", which stumped me at first. After some drawing and talks with the client I came up with the concept you see here. I love the old carnival & circus posters and so did the client. it ended up being on t-shirts and posters and all sorts of goodies.

Perhaps my favorite project so far. This is an invite to a Halloween Masquerade Ball. It is constructed by hand, with special made linoleum stamps. The only part created on the computer is the design of the pumpkin on the reply card. It consists of a box with two hinged tops and a book with windows that see through each other. This is one of those things that you have to actually see to get a feel for, but the pictures will help you understand the form.

This is a design for a book jacket of The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes. As a sherlock fan, I have seen every incarnation of a Sherlock Holmes book jacket. And All of them have pretty much the same thing on them. Either it is the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes with his pipe and hat, or a drawing of him with his pipe and hat. Every once in a while you'd get the dank old-timey alleyway. I was tired of it.

I went for a sneakier approach. Since Holmes was all about seeing what most people miss, I wanted that to be the theme. Whether it is the coffee-stain magnifying glass or the title hidden in the words, I want the reader to get a little fun out of the cover.

This was a poster was made in a Typography class for an exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Musuem.

I focused on the circle to convey not only the earth, but the need for cyclical answers. One shot solutions and band-aids on a broken arm just aren't cutting it anymore.