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Creative and Design Direction
Based in Los Angeles
Precog Magazine
Co-editor, Publisher, Design Director
Mona Studio
Creative Director
PROJECTS
Rava Films (Visual Identity, Website) Forthcoming
Socrates Sculpture Park 2023 Exhibitions and Gala (Visual Identity)
Casa Comala Artist Residency (Visual Identity) Forthcoming
Common Bond Gala 2022, Center for Architecture (Visual Identity) with Studio Loutsis
Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness Performance (Visual Identity) with Studio Loutsis
Outro, SVA MFA 2022 (Exhibition Design)
Lucas Blalock: Oar Or Ore (Publication Design) for Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Forthcoming
Tommy Kha (Publiction Design) Forthcoming
UCLA l DMA 2021-22 Lecture Series (Poster Design)
Windfall Film (Title Design)
Vulpe Furniture (Branding, Website Design)
David Whelan (Publication Design)
Here Together, SVA MFA 2021 (Exhibition Design)
Kristen Lorello Gallery (Catalog Design)
John and the Hole (Poster and Title Design)
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (Print Design and Social Media Assets) with Base Design
Loren Stewart (Branding, Packaging, Lookbooks)
Gloria (Poster and Title Design)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (Title Design)
Akima (Exhibition Design, Signage, and Mural Design) with Studio Loutsis
R.O.E Jewelry (Branding)
Now That’s What I Call Love! SVA MFA 2019 (Exhibition Design)
Precog Magazine Volumes 3–7 (Co-Curation, Magazine Design, and Website Design)
Steps (Poster, Titles and Website Design)
American Modernism (Publication Design) Philadelphia Museum of Art with Heavy Meta
Terry Adkins: Recital (Publication Design) Tang Museum with Heavy Meta
Charles Percier: Architecture & Design in an Age of Revolutions (Publication Design) Bard College with Heavy Meta
Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup (Publication Design) Tang Museum with Heavy Meta
Impressionist and Modern Art: The A. Jerrold Perenchio Collection (Publication Design) LACMA with Heavy Meta
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (Exhibition Design) Carnegie Museum of Art with Heavy Meta
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (Publication Design) Chicago Art Institute, Whitney Museum of Art with Heavy Meta
Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph (Publication Design) Prestel Publishing with Heavy Meta Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed (Publication Design) Cantor Arts Center with Heavy Meta
World Cities Summit Mayor’s Forum (Exhibition Design) NYC&Companywith Manuel Miranda
Everything is Connected (Publication Design) Tang Museum with Heavy Meta
Camera Work (Exhibition Design) Sheila Johnson Design Center at The New School with Manuel Miranada
Mark Di Suvero (Publication Design) Prestel Publishing with Heavy Meta
Afflict the Comfortable (Publication Design) Tang Museum with Heavy Meta
The Promised Land: The Art of Jacob Lawrence (Publication Design) Carnegie Museum of Art with Heavy Meta
TEACHING
Advanced Typography (Parsons The New School, Spring 2019–2022)
Core Studio Typography (Parsons The New School, Fall 2017–2021)
Future of the Poster (Parsons The New School, Spring 2017, 2018)
Core Lab Typography (Parsons The New School, Fall 2016)
Guest Critic (Pratt Institute, 2019)
Guest Critic (The Cooper Union, 2017)
EDUCATION
MFA Graphic Design, Yale University, 2014
BA Design and Media Art, UCLA, 2006
AWARDS
2017 Alice Award—Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
2016 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition—Innovation In Print Design
2015 l 50 Books l 50 Covers—Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed (50 books)
2015 l 50 Books l Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions (50 books)