Unearthed Material
2025
Publication design
This book provides a brief history of material objects created naturally and artificially on Earth in the past 350 million years. For most of history, the Earth’s geological activity has created and destroyed its own natural resources. Now, humans have created about 1 trillion metric tons of mass. Artificially-made objects accounted for about 3% of mass on Earth in 1900, but now physically outweigh all naturally-occurring matter on Earth less than 150 years later.
This book is 350 pages long, with each page representing 1 million years of history. By placing three objects on this timeline – the Petoskey Stone (350 million years old), Himalayan pink salt (250-300 million years old), and a tiny orange purse from SHEIN (>5 years old) – we can begin to reflect on the timelines, processes, and materials associated with three objects created hundreds of millions of years apart. This allows us to start uncovering uncomfortable truths about our physical reality, waste, and the natural world. The book also contained many blank pages where nothing happened in my material history, though I included historical markers of importance, such as Pangaea forming and dinosaurs becoming extinct.
This project was created in response to an assignment in Form Studio 1 at RISD taught by Nick Larson. The prompt was to conduct exhaustive descriptive research on three objects for the purposes of extracting visual form. I studied each object’s surface and texture, materiality, construction and assembly, cultural and historical context, and function and use, and designed a new object using findings from researching each object. Some questions we were asked to consider included:
- Do your objects naturally group together?
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Do they operate as points of contrast?
- How does rearranging the order of your objects generate different narrative or formal interpretation?
Intimate Immensity
2025
Editorial Design
Typesetting
Creative Direction
Chapter 8 of The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, typeset and designed for Type 1 with Nancy Skolos at RISD.
Each of us is made of a million tiny parts and we are each somebody's whole world. When I heard the words “intimate immensity,” I thought about the infinite amount of tiny atoms and molecules that make up each of us, each cell in our bodies, each plant and leaf and grain of sand on earth (not literally – I was never good at science). Intimate and immense are adjectives in opposition with one another but also uniquely synonymous by my definition.
I tried to capture this feeling that reminded me so much of the Jewish teaching "every life, a universe" (pikuach nefesh) which teaches us that to destroy a life is to destroy an entire world, and to save a life is to save an entire world.
About two weeks after finishing this project, the shooting at Brown University unfolded while I was in my apartment a mile away. Every life is its own full universe – that phrase holds new meaning and feels especially important right now.
Equimundo
2022-2025
Graphic Design
Brand Management
Digital Content and Web Strategy
Website and Social Media Management
As Communications Officer at Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice, I led Equimundo’s graphic design work and ensured brand consistency across creative deliverables, including social media graphics, publications, infographics, brochures, webpages, posters, slide decks, video/motion graphics, and other print and digital marketing materials.
While working with partner organizations and external vendors, I enforced brand compliance in design deliverables by managing style guidelines and digital assets with a keen eye for detail. I led creative direction and design work with high-level partner organizations including UN Women, the U.S. Congressional Dads Caucus, and Futures Without Violence. I enjoyed creating engaging content that effectively ties mission-oriented brands together while aligning with distinct brand guidelines.
Equimundo a DC-based non-governmental organization (NGO) working to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women, girls, and individuals of all gender identities.
The Manosphere, Rewired
2024
Publication Design
Social Media Graphics
I had full creative control over the creative direction and layout design of a high-profile report co-produced by Equimundo and Futures Without Violence about the manopshere, a cluster of the Internet where men proliferate extremist ideas related to misogyny, hypermasculinity, and opposition to feminism.
I designed the look and feel of the report and laid out the text, data visualizations, and images in order to distill complex research findings into an engaging reading experience.
This report has been cited by the UN, the UK Parliament and other major institutions.
Read the publication here.
Capital Funk
2022-2025
Brand Design
Apparel Design
Illustration
As a member of the DC-based hip hop dance team Capital Funk, I designed the graphics for the team’s events, performances, and apparel.
Our annual Funk Academy, a hip hop dance event based in Washington DC, required a brand refresh to draw more dancers to join the program. The brand refresh draws inspiration from the term academy and imagines the weekend as a youthful school-like environment. The illustrations represent doodles that young students in a classroom might draw. I had full creative control over the brand direction.
Throughout the weekend, dancers from the DMV and all over the East Coast come together to perform in a showcase, take classes, celebrate hip hop dance, and connect with the community. The brand refresh conveys the fun and playfulness of dance and connecting with friends.
Global Boyhood Initiative
2022-2025
Social Media Graphics
Brand Management
The Global Boyhood Initiative (GBI) is a digital campaign coordinated by Equimundo. I oversaw the rebrand of the Global Boyhood Initiative, working with a creative agency to refine the brand’s audience, messaging, and design, and designed all the creative assets associated with the campaign’s digital presence.
GBI is aimed to help boys grow up into healthy men by supporting boys to express their emotions in healthy ways, accept and connect with one another, stand up against bullying and inequality, and break free from stereotypes. The main audience for GBI’s digital presence is parents, teachers, and other adults who play a positive role in boys’ lives, and the brand identity is welcoming, playful, and gender-inclusive.
Using non-alphabetic forms to create legible type for Form II at RISD with Kathleen and Christopher Sleboda.
Misc
A grab bag of school work and random projects.