design
Ford Bronco Sport: We Do
︎ Agency: Uniworld Group (UWG)
︎ Roll: Art Director / Designer
︎ Type: Social Content, Photo Editing, CRM
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Completed
Ford’s ‘We Do‘ campaign challenges the cultural perception of outdoor involvement and enthusiam as it relates to Black women.
During the time of pandemic living, many Black women have doubled down on or discovered a love of the outdoors. Whether it’s solo time to talk with nature or a weekend treat with the girls, Black women are relishing the joy and freedom of the outdoors and we showed that the Bronco Sport the vehicle to get them there.
The ‘We Do’ campaign appeared across all digital and social channels, with TV, radio and print activations. It featured members of Black American outdoor organizations including: Outdoor Afro, Black Girls Do Bike and Black Girls Run.
By Ford: Staying true to the DNA of the first-generation Bronco – designed by a team that included McKinley Thompson, Jr., the first African American automotive designer to work at Ford – the all-new Bronco Sport SUV pays it forward with modern, heritage-inspired style, available agile off-road architecture and G.O.A.T. Modes™ to go over any type of terrain.
Anachronis
︎ Type: Publication
︎ Period: 2019
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: On-going
Anachronis is a biannual encyclopedic–publication.
Each volume holds an account of memoirs, chronicles, and stories from the eyes of visiting authors. Included are portrayals of philosophy and life moments. The publication features designs, artwork and writing.
anachronis.international
The origin of the publication name comes from the word anachronism.
According to Cambridge Dictionary, the word anachronism is defined as:
a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history, especially one that happened or existed later than the period being shown, discussed, etc.:
someone or something placed in the wrong period in history, or something that belongs to the past rather than the present:
Oxford Languages
mid 17th century: from Greek anakhronismos, from ana- ‘backwards’ + khronos ‘time’.
Exoskeletal Support
︎ Type: Product
︎ Period: 2019
︎ Medium: Digital Presentation
︎ Status: “Completed”
I worked with Jackson Watkins to design an exoskeletal support brace for the silent generation. Our primary goal was to create a product that eliminates the issues associated with the usage of braces by this generation.
Good design fixes problems that additionally help all people. By focusing on those that need the most improvements (our silent generation), using a knee brace like this becomes very easy and more efficient. This can be thought to alleviate stress both physcially and mentally. Plus, they look pretty rad.
Coffee & Cameras
︎ Type: Logo / Community
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Closed
Coffee & Cameras was born as a social solution to the photography community in Gainesville, FL.
The idea was pretty simple.. get people to attend meets and help foster an ever-growing community.
Universal Mardi Gras
︎ Agency: Paintbox Labs
︎ Roll: Art Director / Designer
︎ Category: Advertising
︎ Status: Completed
Work for Universal Studios.
awhap
︎ Type: Branding
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Completed
awhap is an Air Conditioning, Water Heating, Heating and Plumbing company offering services in the San Francisco Bay Area, Great Los Angeles Area, and the San Diego & Inland Empire.
Affordable Water Heaters and Plumbing Inc. has been providing same day hot water heater replacement and repair, 24 hours a day / 7 days a week since 1995.
Roun
︎ Type: Concept
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Processing
Roun is a working concept, intending to be a creative agency and production house. The origin of the name:
Reconstruction: Proto-West Germanic/rūnu
*rūnu f
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter.
In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named (ideographs).
The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from around A.D. 150, with a potentially earlier inscription dating to A.D. 50 and Roman senator Tacitus's potential description of rune use from around A.D. 98. The Svingerud Runestone dates from between A.D. 1 to 250.
Runes were generally replaced by the Latin alphabet as the cultures that had used runes underwent Christianisation, by approximately A.D. 700 in central Europe and 1100 in northern Europe. However, the use of runes persisted for specialized purposes beyond this period.
The City of Maria
︎ Project: Holliday
︎ Type: City Flag | Concept
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Present
This fictional city is located just outside the Neo-Detroit Metropolitan area. Maria is home to climate refugees, naturalists, and outsiders within the cinematic world of Holliday.
Holliday is a hard science fiction world in progress.
Justin Tompkins
︎ Type: Personal Logo
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Active
This is my personal logo I designed to represent what I’m usually up to… exploring and taking photos.
Footlocker Sneaker Story
︎ Agency: The Times
︎ Type: Social Media
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Past
While working at The Times, I was tasked to design a graphic influenced by – at the time – Nike’s seasonal design language. This design would act as the hero for a storytelling series by Footlocker/Nike.
The graphic would introduce new episodes of Sneaker Stories.
Use: Static & Motion
Citizens of Magnolia
︎ Agency: Personal
︎ Type: Cover Art
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Pending (TBD)
Magnolia is a spec-city used as a foundation to discover and test solutions for the modern way of life. As the human population has increased, work has dramatically changed, technological innovation has rapidly expanded, but the community of living has been largely left the same.
Citizens of Magnolia aims to form an online community of experts and passionate people. With core goals of better planning cities, increase efficiencies, find more happiness, and sustain people’s choices regarding their ways of living.
This visual represents the podcast cover art.
Studio Raining Sun
︎ Agency: Personal
︎ Type: Logo
︎ Medium: Digital
︎ Status: Current
An umbrella to my creative work. This is the logo for the one-man-band outfit I call Studio Raining Sun.
Cole Haan
︎ Agency: VSA Partners
︎ Type: Exploration
︎ Medium: Digital / Agency
︎ Status: Past
While working with VSA Partners in New York City, I was asked to do an exploration with one of their accounts – Cole Haan. I could choose the direction of the exploration. I became curious of what experiential work they’ve done before.
I find physical installations and experiences to be much more impactful than digital ones. This being based on what remains memorable. The more senses that are incorporated the better the immersion. Just reference an amazing gastromic experience and reign in the reasoning. See?
The results are a direct representation of my process of thinking and the mostly freeform writing (timeline).
Concrete Facade
︎ Type: Concept
︎ Period: 2018
︎ Medium: Digital / Studio
︎ Status: On-Hold
Spatial Experience & Visual Atelier
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
︎ Agency: VSA Partners
︎ Type: Design
︎ Medium: Digital and Print
︎ Status: Completed
CME Group is the world’s leading derivaties marketplace.
“CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk.” They offer a wide range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes which includes futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.
This exploration was for a redesign of CME’s online and print design identity. Created during my time working with VSA Partners. All work concepted, drafted and executed by myself.
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