‘Good Old Lower East Side’

January 3rd, 2010

This mosaic resides on the floor of La Bonne Bouffe, an Algerian restaurant and crêperie located at the corner of 2nd and B in Manhattan. I designed the restaurant’s menus, which are now available to view in my portfolio. The acronym ‘GOLES’ in the mosaic stands for ‘Good Old Lower East Side.’ According to La [...]

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Style and Standards

November 30th, 2009

Please enjoy these profound excerpts from the rare 1963 book Graphic Design: Visual Comparisons by Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, and Bob Gill. These three men were design firm Fletcher/Forbes/Gill, which would eventually evolve into Pentagram.
“Our thesis is that any one visual problem has an infinite number of solutions; that many of them are valid; that [...]

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‘The Beauty of London in Design’

November 8th, 2009

Exciting news! My article ‘The Beauty of London in Design’ was published at Smashing Magazine on Friday. This article is what I spent the majority of my time working on during my September trip to London, so I’m very happy to be able to share it. I hope you find the piece informative and inspiring! [...]

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Interview: Supermundane

September 28th, 2009

During my trip to London in mid-September, I was fortunate enough to interview the very talented artist Rob Lowe, also known as Supermundane. Rob is a man who loves to draw, who loves words, and who loves drawing words. ‘Supermundane’ is a word that Rob stumbled upon in a dictionary, and it spoke to [...]

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London Recap

September 23rd, 2009

So I recently returned from a trip to London which was an extraordinary experience. I will soon be publishing a feature-length article on London design in a great publication and I will also be publishing my interview with illustrator and designer Rob Lowe a.k.a Supermundane right here. Until then, I have compiled some of the [...]

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Four of a Kind

August 21st, 2009

Gun violence is evil but evil is one of the main ingredients of a good gangster movie. Recently, I noticed the use of a gun used as a letterform in the graphic design on a film package. I did a little brainstorming and a little research and quickly found several more that are all strikingly [...]

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