experience
Visuals Designer New York Magazine
Created and art directed illustrations, digital collages and animation for timely stories and systems for ongoing series.
Senior Art Director TIME
Designed and art directed print feature stories, cover stories, and front and back of book. Created and art directed illustrations for print and social media.
Senior Designer HuffPost
Designed features stories, front and back of book for Huffington, iPad magazine
Features Design Supervisor The Boston Globe
Designed and art directed daily features sections, worked on the Sunday magazine and collaborated with freelance illustrators.
Designer House of Blues Entertainment
Marketing and brand designer in creative services team making the logo bigger and pop. Responsible for ‘Artist of the Month” program. Worked on retail art and food advertisements.
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
