experience

New York Magazine, Visuals Designer
March 2022 - September 2022
Designed and created various visuals, illustrations, photo collage, videos and animations to accompany the magazine’s various verticals in a fast-paced environment

TIME, Senior Art Director
July 2014 - August 2019
Designed weekly feature stories, front and back of book, special sections and social media assets. Hired and art directed illustrators and produced illustrations

HuffPost, Senior Designer
October 2012 - June 2014
Designed the weekly iPad magazine’s features, and front and back of book

The Boston Globe, Features Design Supervisor
May 2010 - September 2012
Oversaw, art directed and desgined the daily newspaper’s various features sections, created illustrations, hired illustrators, and contributed to the Sunday magazine

House of Blues Entertainment, Graphic Designer
December 2000 - January 2005
Member of Marketing and Advertising department’s creative services. Created print collateral, online and motion graphics, and retail product graphics

Full work history available upon request

educate

Attended: San Jose State University
Graphic design with illustration emphasis

Taught: School of Visual Arts and University of the Arts

Artist Residency: Light Grey Art Lab - Iceland — 2018

skilled

• Art direction
• Design - editorial, print, presentation / deck
• Illustration - vector, photo collage, traditional media, 3d
• Animation / Motion Graphics - vector, traditional media, stop motion
• Photography - street, event
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Apple Keynote
• Branding and marketing
• Social media
• Public speaking, presentations, workshops, quick courses
• Education and mentoring
• Collaboration and brainstorming
• Editor whispering
• Typography / type design
• Advocacy
• Improvisational comedy
• On-air radio DJ
• Animal Crossing New Horizons
• Splatoon 3

recognize

• Emmy for ‘Penguin Love’ / The Boston Globe — 2012
• The Society of Publication Designers (SPD)
• Society of Illustrators (SOI)
• Type Directors Club (TDC)
• Society for News Design (SND)
• 3x3 magazine
• Print magazine
• Anton Majeri Award for Innovation and Leadership in Graphic Journalism / Ball State University — 2011

Countless talks, demos and panels at professional, collegiate and cultural conferences (KCON), newsrooms, workshops (Apple Store Williamsburg), organizations, and universities

Featured and interviewed by numerous art and design podcasts and websites

judge

• 44th Annual International Regional Media Association Awards
• SOI Illustrators 66 jury — editorial

• SPD53 illustration
• SOI Zankel Scholar Award
• Society of Illustrators Los Angeles
• SOI student competition
• Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Awards
• SND30

shown

• Produced and starred in Recurring Public Speaking Nightmare improv show - 2018
• 'Dumpster Friends Forever' customs show / 100% Soft and My Plastic Heart
• 'Dames: A Visual Tribute To The Women Who Inspire Us' / Leanna Lin's Wonderland
• 'The Robo Show' / Light Grey Art Labs
• LEGO Store Rockefeller Center
• Create:Fixate / Los Angeles
• Works / San José

reference

Available upon request