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Art + Design

Creativity has always shaped how I see and interact with the world. Before I discovered UX, I found expression through drawing, painting, metalwork, and photography. This page brings together my background in fine art and graphic design, which are two creative spaces that continue to inform my work as a designer and educator.

Design

Graphic Design

An image of both sides of my business cards, which shows the same purple brain illustration from my website, split into the right and left sides across the front and back.
A photo of an art print mounted on a wall, depicting Michelangelo's David as a transmasculine man in blues and pinks, with the transgender pride flag draped over his shoulder, hanging behind him.
A stack of white business cards over a blue background. The business cards have a design of three blue minimalistic houses next to each other, one light blue one standing out in the foreground, with the Chicago stars across them.
A pile of flyers promoting "ESHS Chess Club" are on a wooden table. These flyers are for Englewood STEM, and include various details about who to contact and when to meet. The graphic features a chess board that fades out of view with a half of a white king piece in the frame on the left and half of a black king piece on the right.
Two wall-mounted posters displaying a handwritten font.
A two-page spread for a soft pretzel bites recipe. I designed the layout and updated the colors from someone else's illustrations of hands with food as part of a larger series of recipe templates.
Art

Fine Art

A pencil drawing of a skull on a white background with the words "But I Am A Skeleton In A Little Fragile Skin" cut out of a black piece of paper that is adhered to the original drawing.
A titanium figure that resembles an angel, made by casting K'nex pieces and replacing with molten metal. The angel appears to be melting.
A monochromatic blue colored pencil drawing of Jesse Rutherford from The Neighbourhood holding onto a microphone with both hands, singing with his eyes closed.
A perspective view of a titanium ring made from casting two interlocked K'nex pieces and replacing the contents of the mold with molten metal.
A gouache and watercolor painting of a skull over a variety of cool colors in organic splotches in the background.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with black, white, red, and blue whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with black and white whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with blue, red, white, and black whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with yellow, red, and black whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with black, white, and grey whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
A small, square glass pendant made of clear glass with yellow and black whisps of color inside from additional glass being added, swirled, and melted with it.
An oil painting of JFK in varying blue and green tones.
A black and white film photo of an old pickup truck, printed on a large sheet of fiber paper.
On the left is a pencil drawing of a skull dripping with a black liquid. On the left is the same skull that was later turned into an intaglio (etching) print.
A photo of an acrylic painting of F Scott Fitzgerald on canvas. He is depicted in various green and blue shades with white text that reads "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".
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