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My first zine, Scully & Moldy, which is a book of fancomics based on the X-Files. I made it for my friend’s birthday, and so I do not want to sell it, but you can enjoy it for free right here! Tip: The last page is supposed to be two separate comics, read vertically, like those mini-comics found in manga.

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Ukiyo-e-inspired design made for a pattern

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Rape Myths

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here’s some fun stuff from my sketchbook. designing future website elements, some fun dancing Nana, some dog ladies, and who knows what that last page is

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marker drawing of an otherworldly merchant

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some fanart from my sketchbook

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Patterns inspired by tsutsugaki

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here’s a mockup I made of some branding I designed for Comiket! Student project of course, but I plan on wearing the backpack to Comiket this winter :D

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Eve of Absence

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Signs made for Women's March in Los Angeles!!

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raffelsia clown, just wanted to practice with color

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Peaceful Period! A short-term kit designed to relieve the woes of the first day of your menstruation. Because it should be a peaceful week. Period.

Designs inspired by panty liners, japanese hygiene mascots, pastry boxes and bakery packaging, sweetness.

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The Empty Nest

“My wife curls toward me, a comma forcing a pause. Her body is hers. Again. The emptiness settles between us. We listen to it breathe.”

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This is akin to the design anarchy in the 1990s. Illustrator and Photoshop had just come out, people had access to fonts whenever they wanted them, people were making their own fonts, using photoshop filters to make cheesey effects, attributing to the “Grunge” aesthetic. Grunge was an anti-establishment, anti-design movement meant to confuse and discomfort the viewer instead of going with the modernity and swiss style that has always been so popular. People were experimenting and disassembling the idea that design is to communicate, instead yelling and screaming at the viewer. It was truly the wild west of digital design. It was soon harnessed by corporations in an attempt to attract a younger, more rebellious crowd, and many of those who had broken the rules soon established new ones themselves.

Today we have Trump’s use of comic sans and other basic fonts, stolen graphics, and a general yet clear ignorance of printing techniques, color theory, and licensing. People who are not professionals, in an attempt to save money, are doing things they think they can do themselves, and that a graphic designer is not necessary. This is creating a new form of anti-design, except now created by the establishment. But it is making new rules; it is chaotic in its naïveté. It is angering and disrupting designers and their art on intense and primal levels, and it doesn’t take a designer to do it.  I respect this as an art form in the way I respect image macros and their striking similarity to Ed Ruscha’s work. It is derivative without even knowing it, yet it is uninformed, ignorant, and blasphemous--and despite everything, it works on the levels that it needs to. Everyone knows what they’re seeing when they look at it, and so it is design.

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Starbucks mermaid enjoying her day off-