IN 3-D
MERCH, PACKAGING,
SURFACE & INTERIOR
Designing in 3-D is a blast. It means thinking about visual perception and typographic hierarchy and how a thing is approached, experienced, and used. I love considering how something fills and contains space, what and how much is seen at any given angle, how it is put together structurally, and the ways that shape and line interact with dimension.
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Here are some basic "things" I've had fun with: a sleeve, a bottle, and box, a vehicle, and a couple of rooms.
PianoFête is a week long piano festival, and no festival is without it's merch! Even Piano conecerts need a concert tee!
Wake up with your favorite piano music and a cup of coffee from the Vashon Island Roasterie in you PianoFête Mug (shown here in Rhapsodie Blue)
Heading out to rehearse a four-hand piano piece with your pianist friend? Don't forget your sheet music in this natural canvas tote (also works for carrying books on music theory or groceries)
PianoFête is a week long piano festival, and no festival is without it's merch! Even Piano conecerts need a concert tee!
VASHON PIANOFÊTE
MERCH SUITE
Communi-TEA at Fearless Ideas is a break during After-School Tutoring to check-in which sipping herbal tea. During the pandemic, it became a valuable time to connect over Zoom. This tea tin was created to possibly send to students or sold as a fundraiser.
Communi-TEA at Fearless Ideas is a break during After-School Tutoring to check-in which sipping herbal tea. During the pandemic, it became a valuable time to connect over Zoom. This tea tin was created to possibly send to students or sold as a fundraiser.
This panel of the tin tells the history of Communi-Tea and provides some information about the non-profit it came from.
Communi-TEA at Fearless Ideas is a break during After-School Tutoring to check-in which sipping herbal tea. During the pandemic, it became a valuable time to connect over Zoom. This tea tin was created to possibly send to students or sold as a fundraiser.
"COMMUNI-TEA"
TEA TIN (Ltd. Run)
GREENWOOD
PENCIL BOX
MERCH SUITE
As "Outfitters of Creative Adventure" Greenwood Pencil Box sells supplies for explorers of the imagination. Write the next "cult classic" film script with the "Erased Head Toque"—one of many custome "Thinking Caps" sold at the store.
As "Outfitters of Creative Adventure" Greenwood Pencil Box sells supplies for explorers of the imagination. Naturally there had to be a Pencil Box and for an extra charge, the box can be filled with premium Blackwing pencils!
As "Outfitters of Creative Adventure" Greenwood Pencil Box sells supplies for explorers of the imagination. These national park-style posters are perfect decor for the office, nook, or dorm room, encouraging oyu to venture forth into the great unknown!
As "Outfitters of Creative Adventure" Greenwood Pencil Box sells supplies for explorers of the imagination. Write the next "cult classic" film script with the "Erased Head Toque"—one of many custome "Thinking Caps" sold at the store.
Greenwood Pencil Box is a retail store funded and run by two non-profit partners: Fearless Ideas and Sanctuary Art Center. I presented this (and other CAD renderings for approval by Executive Directors from both orgs.
In the creation of a brand identity for a retail store, exterior sign execution is a key consideration.
I began a museum of pencil sharpeners!
Greenwood Pencil Box is a retail store funded and run by two non-profit partners: Fearless Ideas and Sanctuary Art Center. I presented this (and other CAD renderings for approval by Executive Directors from both orgs.
INTERIOR DESIGN
The austere, government-funded building made the name Bureau of Fearless Ideas seem more official than was ever intended. The oversized logo was rotated to soften the branding and break the rigid grid of the mullions. This project prompted revelations about the 10-year-old brand limitations, ultimately leading to my company-wide brand refresh. (See LOGO & BRAND).
Seattle Housing Authority agreed to let this nonprofit writing and tutoring center occupy what was originally intended as office space on the ground floor of the new Hoa Mai Gardens Building in Yesler Terrace.
A few months later, the final touch came the space filled with children’s books, artwork, and students learning.
The austere, government-funded building made the name Bureau of Fearless Ideas seem more official than was ever intended. The oversized logo was rotated to soften the branding and break the rigid grid of the mullions. This project prompted revelations about the 10-year-old brand limitations, ultimately leading to my company-wide brand refresh. (See LOGO & BRAND).
INTERIOR DESIGN
DEVO RECORD SLEEVE (Spec)
This cover for a 7-inch single is purely a work of DEVO Fan Fiction. This single does not exist, but if it did...
The "ribs" of the bomb shelter follow the edge of the vinyl when it’s in the sleeve. The inevitable faded ring caused by friction from the slightly thicker, rounded outer edge of the vinyl will work with (not against) the design.
The front cover borrows from Pop Surrealists like Mark Ryden and, of course, Mark Mothersbaugh) and deploys the theme of mutants and mutation central to the idea of De-evolution and mentioned in the lyrics of "Going Under".
This cover for a 7-inch single is purely a work of DEVO Fan Fiction. This single does not exist, but if it did...
"THE GENTLEMAN" IPA
BOTTLE LABEL
(Spec)
The Gentleman IPA label has the illusion of a prom date Polaroid crudely taped to the bottle with masking tape. The concept is that a gentleman is defined by goodness of intention and authenticity of character, not by flash and affectation.
Actual masking tape isn’t scalable and deteriorates in water. Actual masking tape on a brown bottle is photographed then printed on the opaque "cold-glue" label. Each bottle in a six pack has a different interpretation of what it means to be a gentleman.
Actual masking tape isn’t scalable and deteriorates in water. Actual masking tape on a brown bottle is photographed then printed on the opaque "cold-glue" label. Each bottle in a six pack has a different interpretation of what it means to be a gentleman.
The Gentleman IPA label has the illusion of a prom date Polaroid crudely taped to the bottle with masking tape. The concept is that a gentleman is defined by goodness of intention and authenticity of character, not by flash and affectation.
A digital rendering of the food truck deployed on the used truck that the client was considering purchasing.
A digital rendering of the food truck deployed on the used truck that the client was considering purchasing.
This is a 3-D paper model of the design made for presentation to the client.
A digital rendering of the food truck deployed on the used truck that the client was considering purchasing.