Kammerkonzert 2026
Design for Squarepusher's Kammerkonzert, published by Warp Records. LP and CD packaging + booklet. Gatefold photographs by Jo Apps.
The Next Chapter of Nike Football 2026
Visual identity for Nike NYC HQ's 2026 media day leading up to wc2026. Graphic design for X2 collection locker room displays, floor graphics, event wayfinding and promotion. With Something Special Studios* Photos: Sean Davidson.
Performa: Live on Broadway 2026
Visual identity for Performa's 2026 Biennial fundraiser, a one-night only event on Broadway featuring performances by a diverse range of artists, musicans and unexpected collaborators. With Something Special Studios*
Flight Club Air Max 95–97 Release 2025
Activation environmental graphics and direction. Production files for NYC, LA, MIA and Tokyo. Digital rollout and photo direction for exclusive regional releases for AM 95–97s.
Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look without fear 2022
Exhibition graphic design for Wolfgang Tillmans's 2023 MoMA exhibition: To look without fear. For curator Roxana Marcoci and curatorial assistant Caitlin Ryan, in collaboration the artist and his studio with Kevin Ballon. Typesetting and print production with Claire Corey.
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition 2022
Exhibition graphic design for Meret Oppenheim's, 2022 MoMA retrospective. For curator Anne Umland. With Jaeyoon Lee. Production coordinated by Claire Corey. Title wall paint mask by Paulette Giguere.
Born of Informalismo 2022
Booklet, gallery guide and poster for Marta Minujín and the Nascent Body of Performance at The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Awnings 2018
Book published at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL. Printed and bound with Jo Frenken in the Charles Nypels lab. Photographs taken from 2014–2018 in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, NYC. Essay by Jordan Hruska.
Shown at UNFOLD, the 2018 Shanghai Art Book Fair in an exhibition curated by Jo Frenken.
Selected for Tokyo TDC Vol.30
Selected for De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2018
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 2016
Broadsheet for Beatriz's exhibition at the New Museum, 'Song, Strategy, Sign.' Exhibition Curated by Johanna Burton and Sarah O' Keefe.
See it First 2016
Promotional poster/mailer for New Museum membership dept; included upcoming events and information on membership.
A Pot for a Latch Broadsheet 2016
Broadsheet for Pia Camil’s exhibition at the New Museum: A Pot for a Latch. Folded: 9 x 12" Flat: 24 x 36" sheet-fed 4/4 offset.
My Barbarian Broadsheet 2016
Broadsheet for the My Barbarian exhibition at the New Museum. Web-fed one colour offset at Linco Printing. Folded: 16.5 x 22.75" Flat: 33 x 22.75"
Never-Not-Testing / Pre-Press-Prep 2013–2019 (...)
2018
Test made at VCU Qatar in 10 colours on a Riso EZ 590U
2017
Continuation of risograph tests at the Jan Van Eyck Academie with Jo Frenken. JvE #1, Initial test with 19 colours on the Riso 1070E in the Charles Nypels Lab. Paper: Munken Lynx and Colorplan Smoke Grey.
After the initial test there were a few things discovered that could be improved upon. In addition I was interested to test the grain touch screening in the RIP of the Riso, as I planned to employ this setting for Awnings.
JvE #2. Fruit rack Top left: faux cymk. Other Fruit racks: drawn separations with flo green, orange, yellow, bright red; different screening settings made in photoshop.
Shown at Parallax (2019) Curated by Artun Alaska Arasli, a group show about a dichotomy of “frontness” and “backness”. Parallax is the apparent position of an object, or the displacement or the difference of it, as it is viewed from two different lines of sight. The show aims to literally highlight certain elements that deal with seemingness, hiddenness, object overlaps; this would correlate metaphorically into the notion of the remembrance, hindsight, reflection; an exploration of various definitions of a vantage point.
2016
A second test sheet was printed at the 2016 Ventriloquist Summer School. A graphic design summer school/press ran by João Doria and Kristina Ketola Bore. Shown here on the first day of the summer school on the window of 1857 in Oslo. Paper: Munken Lynx.
2013 (Not Pictured)
Riso calibration sheet designed to test the limits of our new machine (Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 2013). Features gradation tests, trapping diagrams, overprinting and opacity charts, LPI samples, type size and stroke width tests. 11 x 17" 7 colour risograph. Paper: tbh some copy paper.
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