Formosa Forever

Disembarking on the the Island of Beauty-- Please have your passports ready....

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AlTAIR RECORDS

AlTAIR RECORDS

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Royal Pagoda tea

Royal Pagoda tea

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Mulliner's Books

Mulliner's Books

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Standard Brewing

Beverage labels have always an interest of mine. Living here in Portland, you can see some amazingly creative beer can graphics, especially coming from the local breweries. There’re two schools of brand design in this regard; Most feature the logo taking center stage, while the smaller ones minimize the branding in favor of elaborate illustrations, sometimes featuring wildly different styles from…

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Verdemar Lifestyle

My primary hobby outside of the design and illustration world is Argentine Tango. For the uninitiated, this is a type of social street dance and musical style originating in Buenos Aires around the turn of the last century. Following a similar trajectory to vintage jazz in the United States, it burst into the worldwide scene in the 1920’s, reached its golden age in the 40’s, and then gradually…

Verdemar Lifestyle

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Its Lonely at the Top

A stand-alone postcard/poster project, inspired by beauty pageants and midcentury illustration styles.

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ITS LONELY AT THE TOP

A stand-alone postcard/poster project, inspired by beauty pageants and midcentury illustration styles.

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El Rey del Compás

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AIGA

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The Galleon Room

Remember your neighborhood in the nineties? All the crusty old local establishments that seemed like holdovers from the seventies — which at the time, weren’t so long ago? Here’s one that never existed, but definitely could have, a divey midcentury motel brand straight from the rundown side of your childhood hometown There’s something gloriously bold and arbitrary about hotel themes from those…

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HOtel Labels

Pinterest and boredom inspired me to create some Wes Anderson-inspired hotel ephemera. Here I’m imagining a luggage tag for mid-grade London Hotel in the late forties. Note the generically “upscale” name and not-quite-heraldically correct crown; the owners must have been phoning in the design process on this one! Procreate for the Illustration, Illustrator for the text.

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Christmas Cards

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Wafflekat

During the COVID lockdown, I decided to take an online UI/UX design course to supplement my skillset. My first project was a fairly basic preliminary design for a food app, in this case, breakfast food.

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Free speech

A draft for the can upcoming essay collection due to be published soon by a friend of mine. It didn’t make the cut, but I’m very happy with the laurel wreath; creating it, however, was easier said than done, even with a symmetry guide. There’s a reason so many designers rip off the United Nations wreath and hope nobody notices! It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a mathematical formula for…

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Save me a TAnda

Save me a TAnda

A postcard project from the depths of the pandemic! This was a concept I came up with after a good six months away from social dancing, specifically Argentine Tango. Within tango culture, a “tanda” is a 3-4 song set, bookended by a brief intermission, that’s normally danced consecutively. All this is very much what I was missing, and as a result I ended up creating this design as a physical…

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Timber LOOP

My first corporate client! I had the unexpected pleasure of being recruited by a local studio to help with an illustration project for Timber Loop, a new service from Timberland Boots intended to help keep their products out of landfills. I executed the Infinity-loop graphic showing the boots at the various stages of disassembly and/or repair. You can view the full page here.

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