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Un-Holidazzling T-Mobile’s stores

Timeframe: September-December 2022

Collaborated with: Ryan Harvey (Design Director), Nicolae White (Copywriter)

Roles:

• Graphic Designer

Objective

Following T-Mobile’s annual holiday treatment to their stores, they asked for a fresher take on what would normally be seen as a “default” state for their stores. The client had asked for an approach that prioritized value and benefits messaging, and adhering to the T-Mobile brand’s visual guidelines (utilizing the square shape in the logo, magenta, and a focus on the perspective being that of the customer—capturing the scene as if it was from their eyes/phone).

Process

Prioritizing T-Mobile’s needs and how to adhere to their brand vision, I knew I had a limited color palette of white, black, and magenta (100% M of course) and needed to incorporate photography that focused on family and travel. Type repetition had been used frequently over the past campaigns, and I wanted to develop something more visually compelling.
Using the main benefit as a textural pattern, I used it to frame the headline, while still keeping the frame clear for the talent to engage with the audience.
All in all, about 10 patterns in white, magenta, and a magenta outline were developed to frame 8 different value headlines.
The headlines and patterns were all tilted 15º to the right, which came up as the best balance between visual interest, tension, and legibility.

Fun fact: I had to build most of the patterns in every/any color besides magenta, because I couldn’t tell if I would go blind or crazy first, due to an overwhelming surplus of magenta. 

All patterns, headlines, and rules on placement and scaling were collated into a visual design guide provided to the production team who were absolute heroes, and created over 400 (!!!) different deliverables across over 6700 stores.

An obstacle that had not presented itself to us immediately (our agency had just been awarded the fleet stores and this was a new territory for all) was that 200+ of the 6700ish stores would have all signage and graphics in both english and spanish. Learning that for most of the deliverables it would need to be a bilingual approach, I had to find a way to keep the same visual approach, but allowing for both languages to be displayed as equal as possible.

We referred to this internally as “the colon” which was to create another hole on the pattern to stack the headlines, hence a “:” shape. 

Additional challenges were adapting non-mural sized, wayfinding, and less photo reliant signage to a complimentary visual style. This was done by applying that 15º angle to other elements, and finding more opportunities to use a texture and repeating pattern.

KEXP Summer Drive

Summer One-Day Fundraiser

Timeframe: May-June 2021
Collaborated with: Michelle Billings (Design Director)

Roles:

• Graphic Designer
• Illustration
• Production

KEXP is almost entirely funded by listener donations, and has four(ish) drives a year. The 2021 Summer drive was based off of a postcard design I made as a reminder card for existing donors to continue their monthly donations/membership. 
The reminder card was from a request for something geometric, vintage looking, and maybe a little agit-prop inspired—with all the elements that make up KEXP included. We went through some old posters and found some styles we liked and found a palette we could add the KEXP gold into. The “golden record” as a sun (it’s also a space reference btw—they love space) along with coffee, nature, and music equipment.

To make it into the summer drive, we did a rotation of the same color palette, and changed some of the elements into a more summery/warm theme. For the record, just between you and me—I don’t know why a popsicle with sunglasses made the cut, but a hotdog with sunglasses didn’t. Anyways, for the end of drive thank you messaging, I felt that having the sun/record setting behind the water and mountains would be a nice way to show a bit of sentimentality in the end. This also required another color rotation to make it look more like a sunset.
The only swag item for this drive was their request for a tote bag that was supposed to look as “publicly funded media as possible” (boring) and emphasized to pick a font that’s probably default on MS Word. It was a huge hit and all were snatched up within hours.
This ended up being KEXP’s most successful fundraising to date.

KEXP Fall Drive

Annual Fall Week-long Fundraiser

Timeframe: August-October 2021
Collaborated with: Michelle Billings (Design Director)

Roles:

• Graphic Designer
• Illustration
• Production

As this was a swag heavy drive, in addition to the t-shirt, there were also five mugs (one for each daytime show) with the show title and slogan, a bandana, a beanie (much requested), a sling bag. The latter two were just logo slaps, but I needed to make them look real for the donors, as the product was yet to have been ordered.

This was a two part project, the initial part was creating a sticker-postcard. The ask was for something like a calendar, and they wanted 12 stickers on a 5”7” card. Michelle and I basically just went to town making a ton of illustrations with the concept of “Amplifiers help us keep a beat.” We tried a couple iterations of things that suggest or rhymed with beat, along with some seasonal images. The end product was kind of a grab bag of the client’s favorite drawings we made, that I layed out and scaled to look as much like a calendar as possible.

Part 2 was making a logo and style lockup to suggest beating. I added in some motion to the logo and lockup, feeling that the “Amplifiers” should actually amplify, and the heart should have some sort of beating to it. They hadn’t had anything animated for social usage for a while so were delighted to have a little bit of motion to post on their Instagram.

Miscellania

Just a collection of various illustrations from drawing challenges, stickers I’ve made, and just whatever other fun stuff I make in my own time. It’s fun, I promise.

Various stickers I have made in the past couple years. I *try* to come up with a new sticker every month.

While doom-scrolling some pandemic news, I noticed that the graphs for case counts looked a lot like Joy Division’s ICONIC album cover for Unknown Pleasures (designed by Peter Saville). I took the weekly case average’s from the beginning of this pandemic to the end of November 2020 (the most recent data at the time) and compiled the graphs for all 50 US states descending alphabetically.

Fun Fact #1: This was from late 2020, this would have been MUCH more work to make today, unfortunately (this is more true everyday).
Fun Fact #2: I started selling this shirt on my Etsy for some passive income, and it got reported and sent me to Etsy jail 3 times. Not for copyright infringement, which I probably deserved, but because it offended someone, 

Be A Bowie
Little gif that is part of an internal identity system developed for a silo/division of the Publicis Groupe. One of the five core cultural values is “Be a Bowie”— be original, take a risk, create something new, and inspire others to collaborate.

Peloton Seattle

Peloton Seattle is a bike shop and café in the crossroads of Seattle’s First Hill and Central District neighborhoods. 

T-Shirt for Peloton’s 5th anniversary.
The ask was for a wizard (based on one from a halloween drawing challenge) on a mountain bike, going down 5 hills/jumps (one for each year). 2 colors+white, along with accompanying sticker.

Peloton X Swift Industries
Coinciding with Peloton’s expansion, they collaborated with Swift Industries (a local cycling bag manufacturer) setting a Swift product wall in the dining area. I was asked to make an illustration for social media to announce the collaboration and support it’s opening. They additionally asked for usage of 4 of my concept sketches for ongoing event announcements.