Little Professor Syndrome

“The Little Professor Syndrome” is a magazine article on Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism which makes children super intelligent but lacking in basic social skills. The headline and illustration are rendered in crayon to convey the feeling of a child having Asperger’s.

Coffee Cup Identity

The objective of the project was to design a coffee cup based on the person whom you get your coffee from in the morning, whether it be a spouse, coworker, or deli server. This cup is based on my friend Marc, who is both a coffee connoisseur and former graffiti artist.

Godard Posters

A poster series of films by director Jean-Luc Godard. The French New Wave was seen as a revolt against traditional cinema, so the concept behind the posters was to depict the radical feel of Godard’s films in a punk rock, D.I.Y. collage form.

Breathless (1960)

A Woman Is A Woman (1961)

My Life To Live (1962)

Week End (1967)

Lush Life by Richard Price

A dust jacket design for Lush Life, a novel by crime novelist, Richard Price. The novel is about a murder in downtown New York, and the concept of the design is to illustrate the conflicting sides of the Lower East Side.

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M. Butterfly

A theater poster for M Butterfly, the story of a French diplomat who has a longtime affair with a Chinese spy posing as a woman. The concept of the poster is to convey the ambuguity of whether or not he knows she is a man, focusing on the closeup of a man’s lips painted in red lipstick.

Final version

Concept 2

History Repeating Itself

An illustration for a New York Times OpEd piece comparing two catastrophic events: the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945, and the tsunami in 2011.

Easy Beat

Easy Beat was a chapbook containing the work of aspiring writer, Brittany Ober.