This series of 6 postcards was created to raise awareness for different aspects of UNICEF's campaign for the betterment of childrens' lives worldwide. I used the metaphor of a hand print and bright colors to emphasize the fact that UNICEF's main focus is on kids, since I believe that their main target audience easily forgets that. The backs of the postcards include more information on what the donations will be used for.

Poster part of a campaign promoting UNICEF's World Water Week.

A study of gang activity in the Hispanic Southwest Detroit area. The book includes a brief history and descriptions of the main gangs in addition to images of their graffiti and hand signs. Personal gang member stories are included, as well as a glossary in the back of commonly used terms and slang. This book was designed and written by myself after a few months of research and interviews in the area.

A poster created in conjunction with a book about gang life in the Hispanic Southwest Detroit area. The poster promotes the book. The type in the gun are excerpts from interviews with gang members from the area.

A set of 2 posters, the first poster is a denotative, informational representation of tanning goggles, the second is a connotative, cultural representation.

Having been given the text from the MOMA book Architecture and Furniture Aalto, we were to redesign the book basing our design choices off of our research on Alvar Aalto, the great Finish architect. My grid design for this book was inspired by the structure of his Baker House design, as well as his Paimio chair design. This was also the first book that I perfect bound by hand. Dimensions: 8x5.5 Pages: 26

This accordion fold piece serves as both an accordion book and display piece, and is meant to reflect the playful style of the famous American designer, Paul Rand, through use of hand-drawn colorful typography and rhetorical elements.