Category: graphic design
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Open Polar Sea
Open Polar Sea is a digital zine about nineteenth-century polar expeditions, climate collapse, and mythology.s finished. Some inspirations: Equivalents For a couple years, I was fairly obsessed with Alfred Stieglitz. So, locsil’s Equivalents album, a “soundtrack” to Stieglitz’s groundbreaking cloud photos, probably triggered an idea that I could conjure soundscapes that would accompany a journey […]
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Food Justice Month
I recently organized a series of Food Justice panel discussions for Fourth Universalist’s environmental justice team, building on past initiatives around food waste and single-use plastics. The January 12 panel on food and climate change, which I also moderated, can be viewed here: Additionally, I developed a series logo and design templates, using Fourth Universlist’s […]
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“Democratizing” Design
As a content producer and strategist, COVID-19 has presenting many challenges. Chief among them is how to visually convey stories without the use of in-person photography of the subjects or events described. Stock photos or illustrations are always an option, but editorial illustrations seem to have more visual appeal. Another recent development in my workflow […]
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Graphic Design: Recycling Signage
I recently worked with the environmental justice team at the Fourth Universalist Society of New York to improve the congregation’s recycling and composting signage, as well as make recommendations on re-configuring the waste and recycling bins. The idea was for the signs to be easy-to-read and intuitive as to what items go in each bin: […]
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Fun With Gradients
Vox’s “The Goods” recently published a great piece on the proliferation of soothing gradients in graphic design. I have been playing around with some in recent designs.
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Submerging reviewed in Broken Pencil
Thanks to Broken Pencil for a really thoughtful review of Submerging #2. “By disregarding grammatical and even structural conventions, Submerging’s essays are all told in ‘the wrong way,’ which goes a long way in explaining why they’re so effective in drawing you into topics so easily misunderstood.” Read the review here. Buy Submerging #2 from Etsy.
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Submerging
Submerging is a zine co-edited by me and Brian Cogan (The Encyclopedia of Punk), Mike Faloon (Zisk and Go Metric), and Brendan Kiernan. Issue #2 features photography from Joanne Barham and essays by Brian Cogan, Brendan Kiernan, Matt Lang, and Jill LaBrack. It’s available for purchase online from Quimby’s, Razorcake and Atomic Books and in […]
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