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The further refinement of my dry-erase masterpiece:

On the Effective Use of Company Time and Resources:

Any time I get asked to do something at Barnes & Noble that somehow involves my design skills, I go all out. Over the past few months I've been slowly perfecting the "Coming Soon" board in the music department.


I discovered a really interesting thing about dry-erase boards: you can easily erase with your fingers. By coloring in big blocks of color, you can use your finger to take away the negative space and create kind of cool block letters. Naturally I wondered if a whole type set could be made from this. Here's what I've come up with:

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace vector portrait

I've been reading Infinite Jest and obsessing over David Foster Wallace recently.

Travel Poster

Art Deco Savannah travel poster

I was asked to submit an idea for the cover of Connect Savannah's "Best of Savannah" issue. I'm not sure where it came from, but I had this idea to try to mimic or pay homage to art deco travel posters. I've always been a big fan of Joseph Binder, an Austrian poster artist from the 30s and 40s. More recently I've really been digging the work of Tavis Coburn. The Connect decided to go a different direction, but I kept working on the idea because it's kind of a new direction for me and taught me a lot of new techniques. You can see the results above.

Human Surveillance

So, I've been here for a little over a month now. The rest of my junk arrived a few days ago from Savannah. Now I can get settled in a little better. Now that the weather is nice, I'm biking around and getting to know the city. Should have an illustration of the University of Texas Tower done pretty soon to post. In the meantime, check out Human Survey. My friends Bob and Skip are doing a sort of anthropological photography project, taking hundreds of portraits of random people on the street (including yours truly, see above).