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The Book of No

One of my favorite typographic assignments from design school, this was from our Mysterious Signs project. Our task was to create a set of six signs, install them somewhere temporarily, photograph them and then create a book illustrated by them. It was up to us to create either a book that explained or further compounded the mystery.

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Mustn’t Grumble

A logo for one of my grad year projects. Mustn’t Grumble was a line of knitted accessories that used intarsia (a technique using multiple strands of colored yarn) to render enlarged, pixelated typefaces. I used typefaces specifically designed for flash animation.

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London Wordmark

The challenge for this student project was to create a wordmark that captured the essence of a city. London is a city of movement, with lives intersecting and dispersing. People from all over the world move through the city, either for a few days, a few years, or for a lifetime. The angular serifs and intersecting lines of the London wordmark reflect the movement of people through the city.
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