We took on a major project of bringing all eight of our programmatic responsive websites into our main platform at LincolnCenter.org. Prior to this initiative each of the websites were independently built by an outside agency which resulted in inconsistent functionality, increased dev time and no style guides. Our newly designed websites are now based on a unified and structured template system. This system had to be flexible enough for the needs of eight very different festivals and programs with changing and growing content year to year. We implemented two consistent style guides: one with a left rail and one full width to cater to the needs of each festival. Our new sites result in faster build time, modular thinking, and one CMS allowing for more flexibility and usability.
Visit Websites:
Great Performers, Mostly Mozart, Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, American Songbook, White Light Festival, Big Umbrella Festival
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
A responsive site created for The Hall of Fame at Lincoln Center. The Hall of Fame will be the first of its kind honoring the artists, leaders, and advocates whose exceptional creativity have shaped, and continue to shape, the field of all of the performing arts at Lincoln Center.
The site showcases pages for each inductee including photo and video carousels, Founding Members, a 2017 Ceremony Page featuring videos, a page to buy tickets to the opening night Gala, and an About and Support Page.
All campus resident organizations—The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts—are participating.
New inductees will be honored each year. The first class of inductees of 2016 included Louis Armstrong, Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Leontyne Price and Harold Prince shown here.
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Phone users make up 95% of our app audience. We decided to improve the app for the majority of our users by introducing new features including "tweet a performer", allowing for more menu items in the nav, and enhancing the Account Detail and Digital Ticket Pages where users can deliver tickets directly to their phone.
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Advertising campaign which helped sell over 70 million copies worldwide of this New York Times bestseller by E L James. National airport displays, iPad ads, New York Times and Maxim ads were designed, including out of home advertising in Los Angeles and New York City; MetroNorth Railroad ads, Los Angeles mall backlit displays and phone kiosk ads.
Role: Art Direction, Design
Client: Vintage Books, Penguin Random House
Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center, uniting on one campus across 16 urban acres in Manhattan. The Venue Sales Team manages all rentals of the organization including two world-famous concert halls and several indoor and outdoor event spaces for concerts, galas, product launches, upfronts, movie premieres and more. They wanted a newly re-designed website so their users could easily surface content and information both quickly and intuitively.
This newly designed responsive site now showcases the venues available to rent in a much more elegant way and streamlines features. The site now acts as an interactive portfolio of the spaces. There’s now a filtering system allowing users to view venues based on event type and number of attendees. We now have an Instagram aggregation page bringing together updates and posts while curating them in one place. A new secure sign-in for clients has been incorporated and FAQ information is now much more inviting and organic.
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX
Client: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
A fully responsive paralax designed microsite to promote the launch of The Global Humanitarian Appeal 2015, a consolidated appeal for US $18.8 billion to help at least 74.9 million people affected by disaster and conflict in 22 countries in 2015.
The crises covered in the appeal are Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan and Syria which remain the top humanitarian priorities for 2015. The other major crises covered are Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, announced the launch of the site at a press conference.
Read more about The Global Humanitarian Appeal 2015
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: United Nations: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
48 pages of infographics, data visualization, text layout, and photography for The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Annual Report 2014. UN CERF was a critical part of the humanitarian response to almost every major crisis in 2014. CERF is one of the fastest and most effective ways to support rapid humanitarian response for people affected by natural disasters and armed conflict. The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations reviewed.
"In 2014, the world faced another sharp rise in the number of people who require urgent humanitarian assistance. The number of requests for support from the Central Emergency Response Fund was at its highest ever.” –Valerie Amos, former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
View and download the full report
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: United Nations: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and CERF (The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund)
This was a campaign I worked on while being on the Syria Team at the United Nations. To mark the beginning of the fifth year of conflict in Syria, we kicked this awareness campaign off with UN leaders including Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Member States and the public in an attempt to allow the global community to express their frustrations about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria, and send a message of solidarity to the people of Syria so they do not give up hope. It launched March 11, 2015.
People were able to participate by posting a picture of themselves holding up the sign #WhatDoesItTake, and then post the picture to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #WhatDoesItTake and adding a message of solidarity for Syria’s people. All images were captured on the campaign website creating an online photo wall of solidarity and support. UN and humanitarian leaders signed up for the campaign and more than 60 high profile public figures joined the campaign, sharing photos of themselves holding #WhatDoesItTake sign.
The campaign continued until the High Level Pledging Conference on Syria in Kuwait (March 31, 2015) which brought in $3.8 Billion.
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Press:
Mashable article
Vanity Fair article
United Nations News Centre
A re-designed error page for when visitors of LincolnCenter.org reach a bad URL. This will be built in Summer 2018.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Advertising campaign for the movie tie-in editions of the bestselling book Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, Memoirs of a Geisha, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, amongst others. Backlit out-of-home displays, online banners, and displays for bookstores nationwide were designed.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Various. Vintage Books, Riverhead, Penguin Random House and Kaplan, Inc.
Backlit taxi cab ads. These taxis were driven around Manhattan promoting Remains Silent by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney, and Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. On the on sale date for Remains Silent we arranged for hundreds of cabs to drive around the Barnes and Nobles throughout the city to promote the novel.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
A fully responsive paralax designed microsite for the The United Nations (OCHA) World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2014 report which presents country-level data and trend analysis about humanitarian crises and assistance. The microsite highlights major trends in the nature of humanitarian crises, their underlying causes and drivers, and the actors that participate in prevention, response and recovery.
Role: Art Direction, UI/UX Design
Client: United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
These are a series of digital illustrations and designs that explore a fusion of collage with organic textures that take influence from my interests in signage, urban decay, architecture, graffiti, and my own photography. I partnered with Society6 where these are sold online as wall clocks, posters, stationary, pillows, iPhone and iPad cases, and even shower curtains!
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design, Photography
Client: Meredith Pahoulis Design
Advertising campaigns for Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø and Swedish author Steig Larson who is best known for writing the "Millennium trilogy" of crime novels, which were published posthumously. This series combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue—not to mention one of the most memorable female heroines ever—into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf, Penguin Random House
A slipcase book cover design for Dan Fesperman’s The Double Game, a thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets. Photographs below include a closer look at the development of the project. Front cover contains my lettering.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
A true story about a 1978 murder in Hawaii. The suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. The author, Linda Spalding, is chosen as a juror for the suspect’s trail. I read the manuscript and designed over 30 cover comps. I worked closely with the photo editor to track down the original photographs of the trial.
Role: Design and Concepts
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
Internal United Nations branding for World Humanitarian Day 2015. Branding for the Syria Campaign #WhatDoesitTake, Messengers of Humanity (a platform for global advocates to stand up for humanity by amplifying a generation’s call for a better world), and Hayes Law Firm logo.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art approached me to design a brochure for their African Art Permanent Collection. This is used for children and young teens to walk with while exploring the works of art used in rituals and performances in four African countries, and finding out what secret wisdom they reveal. I met with the MET’s Education Department and the curator. We toured the world renowned exhibit for inspiration leaning towards an eye-catching, colorful, vibrant and fun catalog. It’s on display in the MET’s lobby and on the MET's website.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brief: The following infographics are being used for training modules for The United Nations global employees in country-based offices around the world. The purpose of these infographics is to help employees and stakeholders of the UN understand the highly complex process of country-based pooled funds.
Role: Visual Design, Illustration, Concept
Client: United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Funding Coordination Section (FCS)
Brief: Social Media images for Twitter, Facebook, Google+
Role: Visual Design, content creation. I was responsible for conceptualizing and designing social media images to engage existing communities and build new ones based on key crises and figures.
Client: United Nations: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and CERF (The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund)
Breif: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Family and Teen Programs, Summer 2013 and 2012. The following include front and back covers, calendar and interior spreads.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brief: Responsive website design for Andrew Vachss' best-selling novel, Two Trains Running, a tale of corruption in a devastated mill town set in 1959.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains Sanford Meisner’s legendary technique in this book, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor. The design had to be clean and cater to an audience of film and stage actors. The repeated yellow boxes take on the idea of a film strip and the black background with stage lights caters to the theatre. Two alternative covers at the bottom are shown.
Role: Design and concepts
Client: Anchor Books, Penguin Random House
Brief: Cover Designs for Reading Notebooks promoting published titles by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
The following are various designs (posters, programs, and invitations) I have designed for NYLSO, an orchestra based in Manhattan.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: The New York Late-Starters String Orchestra and Make Music New York
Brief: Book cover design for J. John Palen's The Urban World, Third Edition. Long the leading text in urban sociology, The Urban World continues to provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. J. John Palen is one of America’s leading urban sociologists. Top: final cover, followed by alternative choices presented.
Role: Concept and Design
Client: Oxford University Press
Role: Art Direction and Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
Brief: Wild is the #1 New York Times bestselling by book Cheryl Strayed. The following are advertisements that ran in Entertainment Weekly, People and LA Times. The concept was translated into phone kiosks that ran nationwide, and airport displays that were displayed in San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland.
Role: Art Direction and Design
Client: Kaplan, Penguin Random House,
Brief: Various ads that ran in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and Entertainment Weekly.
Advanced Reader's Edition A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women. Also shown is an ad designed for The Paris Review, including social media ads featured on Twitter and Facebook. Brief History comes as one of the year’s most anticipated novels, a lyrical, masterfully written epic that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
Role: Design
Client: Riverhead Books, Penguin Random House
6 ft. Floor Display in the main window at Posmans Books in Grand Central Terminal NYC promoting French Women for All Seasons by Mireille Giuliano.
Role: Art Direction, Concept, Design
Client: Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Random House
