Brown Student Radio

As Publicity Director for Brown Student Radio, a student and community radio station in Providence, I produced materials regarding station activities and programming. With the cooperation of the Tech Department I instituted the “Print and Post” program to leverage the station’s web presence in order to broaden the reach of publicity materials.

The College Hill Independent

The College Hill Independent is a weekly magazine published by students at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design throughout the academic year. The Indy covers weekly current news, politics, sports, music, and film events and happenings and runs opinions and features articles on a wide range of topics. As a member of the editorial board I focused on issues regarding the design and appearance of the publication and strove to make readability and visual interest key goals. I also collaborated with other members of the design staff to redesign the layout and instructed new designers in design guidelines and practices.

The examples below include spreads, “psuedo-spreads”, table of contents pages, and regular pages. Spreads encompass the central two pages of the publication and are the only two body pages printed in color. They are always devoted to a single article and are treated as special feature. Occaisionally other articles warrant special treatment, in these cases two adjacent spaces may be treated as a spread even though they are not physically connected—thus consistituting a psuedo-spread. Because of the particular way in which the publication is folded the table of contents is also color and has two bottom orientations, enabling text to be placed in different directions. Although there is a template dictating the layout of the remaining pages, significant variation is allowed and encouraged by the design staff.

Parenthesis Journal

I co-founded and served on the editorial board of Parenthesis, a journal of academic writing at Brown University. My responsibilities included establishing and implementing a consistent visual identity and design for publication.

68°

When solicited to renovate the design of this journal of photography I responded with a tactile design consisting of folding envelope enclosing loose-leaf photographs that viewers can remove and do with as they please.

Brown Bioethics Society

My graphic contribution towards saving the Biomedical Ethics Program at Brown University.

post- Magazine

Over the past several years I have designed several covers for this weekly supplement to the Brown Daily Herald and was recently asked to reinvigorate their decade-old overall design.

Animated Atlas of African History

Developed in collaboration with Professor Nancy Jacobs, the Animated Atlas of African History offers a visual presentation of selected themes in the Africa’s history between 1879 and 2002. As the AAAH progresses year-by-year its frames, labels, color-coded classifications and other symbols show territorial names, violent conflicts, the course of colonization and decolonization, post-colonial political developments, as well as economic and demographic changes. Timeline controls advance or reverse the chronology with “play” “fast forward” and “rewind” buttons.

Control & Freedom

This website, designed in collaboration with Owen Strain through the Scholarly Technology Group, is a digital companion to Wendy Hui Kyon Chun’s book, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. Each page represents one of the chapters in the book and is designed to illustrate and engage with the material in each chapter. These pages do not reproduce the content of the book so much as radically remediate it.

Anthropology 52: Classic Maya Civilization

As a Student Technology Assistant within the Instructional Technology Group at Brown University, I advised faculty about enhancing teaching through the use of technology and design strategies.

This website was designed with Professor Stephen Houston to teach students in his anthropology class how to read and pronounce Mayan glyphs.

Rhizome : Red Line

This mapping exercise, completed as part a summer program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, seeks to explore different spatial relationships between the four MBTA Red Line stop in Cambridge, MA. It draws upon theoretical sources ranging from Gilles Deleuze to botany to David Harvey. Pedestrian in focus, it measures distances in terms of travel time and articulates relationships of relativity using diagrammatic means. It further explores absolute spatial relationships and socal context around the vicinity immediately outside of each stop through conventional Cartesian cartographic practices and photography.

Union Square 2020

This project, designed in collaboration with Gordon Hansen, is a multiphase plan to revitilize the area immediately surrounding Union Square in Somerville, MA. It proceeds over 20 years from a signage and branding strategy through a renovation and revitalization strategy and culminates in larger scale new construction projects. Only drawings for which I am directly responsible are shown.