It’s thrilling to design the shape of a community. At Yale University I studied interactive design and programming under Dan Michaelson, who designed the site for the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. Michaelson’s no-frills aesthetic was eye-opening for me, and has had a great influence on all my subsequent designs. In ARTS167, we … Read More
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Benton Street Improvement Association
The Benton Street Improvement Association is a grass-roots campaign to promote tolerance and inclusion, one yard sign at a time. I developed this project with three of my neighbors in response to the events in Charlottesville, North Carolina in 2017. By the end of the project, we had placed 700 signs in Sonoma County and … Read More
Winterblast
Drawing several thousand people each year, Winterblast is promoted with posters, social media and word of mouth. A poor-man’s-Mardi-Gras with street vendors, bands, artists, performers and local color — Winterblast is an annual street festival in Santa Rosa’s SOFA arts neighborhood. For this year’s poster I asked the talented photographer, Collin Morrow, to interpret the … Read More