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Charcoal portrait of a young woman, head and shoulders, emerging from a dense dark ground.

Graphic design, drawn first.

Editorial, identity and type — made by someone who works in charcoal.

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Selected work

Charcoal and graphite drawing of a single eye, the iris rendered in warm amber against otherwise achromatic tone.
Drawing
Painting worked in ochre and gold across a near-black ground, the canvas weave showing through.
Painting
Charcoal drawing of roses in a glass jar, the blooms picked out in deep red against a near-black ground.
Drawing
Black and white photomontage of concrete arches, cut and re-laid into repeating diagonal bands.
Collage
Charcoal drawing of a dark interior, light falling across the floor from an open doorway.
Drawing
Cubist poster composition in rust, ochre and olive on a cream ground, signed beneath the frame.
Graphic design

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Selected projects

Palate PlusEditorial
Type Specimen Book: Adobe Garamond ProType specimen
CinemagMagazine
Evoke: Fueling Workplace ResilienceCampaign
Rara René PhotobookPhotobook
Drawn Type: AKTGLettering
House Fashion WeekSocial campaign

The drawing is not a hobby that sits beside the design.

Charcoal, graphite, paint, cut paper. Portraits and figure studies, worked in tone rather than line, where the eraser does as much as the stick does.

It is the same eye that sets a page. Knowing how a shadow resolves into an edge is knowing how a column of type sits on a spread.

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Collage
  • Graphic design
  • InDesign
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

Identity and campaign work

ahp wordmark, white on deep blue.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline lockup with the California Department of Health Care Services.
WRAP, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, with the line Your Wellness Your Way.
Montana PATH logo with a sunrise over layered hills.
MA-ATR, Access to Recovery.
Central East HHS Region 3 MHTTC logo.

Behavioural health and public-information work, for government and non-profit programmes.

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Editorial, identity, type and lettering. Send the brief, or just the problem.

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