Verse Chorus Bridge
Art direction, design, animation
Animations for interviews with 30 bands, visualizing the musical layers of their songwriting process.
TruSat
Creative direction, product design
I designed and launched TruSat with the ConsenSys Space team. TruSat is a volunteer-led project to promote space sustainability via an independent catalog of satellite positions.
Beautiful News
Data stories
Various graphics highlighting positive trends across our planet.
Pinterest Identity
Identity design
Brand identity for Pinterest, designed in collaboration with the amazing Juan Carlos Pagan.
Vice News
Design direction, product design
I served as Design Director at Vice News through the conception and launch of Vice News Tonight on HBO, the rebuilding of ViceNews.com, and the design of two years of daily graphic content for TV and web.
Splice Sounds
Product design
I designed Splice Sounds from concept to launch—a Spotify-like platform for musicians to distribute and collect audio samples. The product has been the central engine for Splice's growth and 9-figure valuation.
Whale Song Explained
Sound visualization
A graphic notation system for transcribing humpback whale songs to reveal their musical structure. Published in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Wire magazine. Exhibited in Baleinopolis, Aquarium Tropical, Paris, .
Rapmatics
Diagrams
A series of doodles plotting poetic structure.
Pollen
Art direction, design, illustration
Design and illustration for a book of essays, poetry, and short fiction. All illustrations are collages cut from photos of the dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History.
Obama's Legacy
Explainer videos, art direction
This three-part series shows Obama's long-term impact on energy, military strategy, and criminal justice. It aired on HBO over three nights during his final week in office.
Statlas
Co-founder, product design
Charting the Beatles
Data visualization
A study of the Beatles through data visualization. Published in National Geographic, Newsweek, Understanding the World (Taschen), Atlas of Knowledge (MIT Press), Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data-Driven Design, and others. Featured on Gawker, Brain Pickings, The Guardian, Kottke, and others.
Billboard Charts redesign
Information design
An updated design system for the authoritative resource on the music business. Designed w/ Michael Bierut's team at Pentagram.
Umbro World Cup visualizations
Data stories
A visual language for soccer highlights. Umbro covered the World Cup with post-game recaps, pairing this graphic system with their commentary.
Google Creative Lab
Product design
I spent a year at Google working on product R&D, and campaigns for projects like Loon—Alphabet's internet balloon moonshot.
Businessweek special issue
Data stories
I led the research and execution of a suite of graphic stories for a Businessweek special issue, exploring the lingering ripple effects of the 2008 financial collapse.
Get in touch
Bio
Ahoy. I'm a Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based design director looking for new ways to connect people and spread ideas.
I have 12 years of experience serving a range of audiences and organizations. I design holistically across product and brand to create useful tools with impactful stories. I love collaborating on complex puzzles in uncharted waters.
I currently head design at SuperRare. I'm always down to chat about audio+visual collaborations. Long live the funk.
Services
- Creative direction
- Product design and UX
- Design strategy
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Presentation design
- Explainer videos
- Branded content
- Data visualization
- Infographics
Former teams
- Vice News
- Pentagram
- Google Creative Lab
- Splice
- Local Projects
- ConsenSys
Clients
- Medium
- Newsweek
- Businessweek
- Fast Company
- Universal Music
- Umbro
- Information Is Beautiful
Recognition
- Highlights
- Hung in the Museum of Modern Art
- Tweeted by Kanye
- Baked into candy
- Referenced in Tron: Legacy
- Personal work printed in NY Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and others
- Other exhibitions
- Aquarium Tropical, Paris, Baleinopolis (2020)
- AIGA Design Archives (2010)
- Awards
- (3x) Society for News Design 39 (2017)
- Society for News Design 38 (2016)
- Motion Awards: News Graphics (2016)
- Y-Combinator semi-finalist (2014)
- HOW Magazine Best Logotype (2011)
- Type Directors Club Certification of Excellence (2011)
- AIGA 365: Design Effectiveness (2011)
- Speaking
- New York Creative Tech Week (2016)
- Sci Viz Conference (2016)
- Art & Science of Whales, Icahn School of Medicine (2016)