A Designer and Creative Director located 20 miles north of Chicago and 1 mile west of Lake Michigan. Yes, the suburbs. Yes, a Subaru and a Golden Doodle. Also, currently an SVP Design Director at Leo Burnett.

Here is a selection of projects ↯

Collage of various advertisements for Tillamook dairy products, including ice cream, cheese, and toppings, with phrases like 'Mode à la Pié,' 'Melty Melty Melty,' and 'Extraordinary Dairy.' Features images of ice cream tubs, cheese, and a hand holding a cookie.

Art and Design Direction for Tillamook’s first national campaign, Extraordinary Dairy.

This includes the development of comprehensive brand standards for photography, color theory, patterns, iconography, typesetting and film treatments.

It was a privilege to work on such a uncompromising, delicious brand. Also, glad I had the opportunity to meet some cute calves in Tillamook County, OR.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Tillamook

Several Samsung advertisements featuring smartphones and a virtual reality headset display. One poster shows a person's profile with duplicated faces, another promotes the phrase "WHAT DO YOU WANT" with a blue arrow, and a third features a Samsung Galaxy phone. There is also a billboard with similar advertisements and a bus stop shelter with posters, all emphasizing Samsung branding and modern design elements.

Art and Design Direction concept for global Samsung platform, Do What You Can’t. Embracing the idea of breaking academic design conventions.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Samsung, DWYC

Collage of promotional materials for High Noon, a beverage brand. Top left features colorful posters with blue and yellow branding, including an image of a bottle and a hand holding a grapefruit, with the text 'TOAST TO THE SUN' and 'WE START AT NOON.' The top right shows four digital screens displaying branding, contact info, and product images. The bottom left displays a person pouring a grapefruit-flavored drink from a bottle into a glass, with the High Noon logo. The bottom right shows three bottles of flavored drinks and an orange background with the text 'LEISURE IS LUXURY' inside an oval.

Art direction, site and launch experience for E. & J. Gallo Winery’s first brand outside wine. Yes, the now iconic High Noon began as a flavored vodka sans bubbles!

Designed at
Leo Burnett

High Noon

Split image with left side text reading 'ARTWORK' with a yellow inverted 'T' in the center, and right side an abstract yellow geometric shape on a black background.

Logo for Chicago-based co-working office dedicated to those operating in that funky space between art and work. The negative space between the “t” and “w” became the mark, a sculptural form in and of itself.

Designed at
Fuller

ArtWork

A shoe with a lamb's leg attached to the heel, creating the illusion of a sheep stepping out of the shoe. The background is light blue, and there are various design elements and text describing the shoe, including phrases like "hype beast".
Diagram showing the components of a Nike sneaker, including details about the sheep bag, cloud box, and sneaker design with labels for materials and fonts used.
Close-up of a person wearing blue and white athletic sneakers, light gray jeans with cuffs rolled up, and light blue socks, standing on a stone sidewalk next to a stone wall.

The iC1 is a mattress you can try on your feet. As a way to engage a new, younger audience we created a custom sneaker using the performance materials from the Serta iComfort mattress.

We also created a unique brand visual identity for the product including a custom typeface called Ovis and a “counting sheep” inspired bag with numbered edition livestock ear tag.

STA Winner

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Serta iC1

Website homepage for Domu, a Chicago apartment rental service, featuring illustrations of city buildings, trains, and people, with search options for neighborhoods and apartments, and promotional content about Chicago neighborhoods and apartment listings.

Site design for Chicago’s #1 apartment and neighborhood resource. After a successful site launch, I was asked to create a campaign that reminds us (Chicagoans) how incredible our home is. No call to action. Just a celebration of neighborhood culture.

Illustrations by the brilliant, Morgan Ramberg.

Designed at
Fuller

Domu

Highs & Lows™ is an iOS app that allows people to document and reflect on their day in a simple way. Hundreds of events that inspire a range of emotions and feelings fill our days. The app encourages people to consider their day in a direct and thoughtful way by distilling down those events and pulling out two simple points that sum up the extremes in a balanced entry.

Highs & Lows™ considers that we experience points in our day at each end of the spectrum, and those points have sources. After a month of using the app, one could look back in the list view and scroll through all their highs to think about what, if anything, they had in common. Was there a situation, person or place that was involved in most of them? How do they bring more of that common thing into their lives? Or how do they limit the instigator of the majority of their lows?

Designed at
Fuller

Highs & Lows

A collage of nine photos, including a dark outdoor scene at dusk, a red lampshade in darkness, a small window with pinkish sky, a curtain in front of a window, a building interior looking up toward a bright sky, an airplane window viewing clouds, a white rectangular light switch, the word "LIGHT" and date "02 14 19," and the Samsung logo on a black background.

Video teaser concept for the launch of the 9 focused on the incredible camera performance in both low and high light. A stop motion sequence takes you through a full day of light from the perspective of various windows until you land at the silhouette of the glowing 9.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Samsung
9 Teaser

Six posters for Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones. The posters feature abstract designs of a green gauge, a blue eye, and a purple camera lens, with slogans like 'Slow Motion. Reimagined,' 'Low Light,' 'High Light,' and 'The Camera. Reimagined.' The background shows a city sidewalk with street signs, buildings, and clear skies.

Launch concept for the 9/9+ using the counter space of the “9” to highlight new product features.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Samsung
9/9+ Launch

Flat lay of various clothing items and packaging from Hugh & Crye, including folded shirts, plastic bags, a cardboard box with a potted plant illustration, and a tag with the Hugh & Crye logo. The background is light blue and pastel pink with minimalistic line drawings of a plant, giraffe, and tuk-tuk.

Brand identity and packaging system for menswear brand with a unique fit system that includes multiple sizes between sizes to give men of various heft and stature a more bespoke fit. The illustrations were sketched memories from the founder’s global travels.

Designed at
Fuzzco

Hugh & Crye

Two large outdoor signs for Foxtrot, a store and app, featuring minimalist black and white artwork and text. The left sign shows a wine glass and a person sitting on the glass, with the text "Good Stuff Delivered" and the Foxtrot logo. The right sign displays a large bottle illustration with the same slogan, and smaller icons and text promoting various coffee and food options.

Campaign exploring the vast range of goods and services found at Foxtrot. A local, gourmet corner store with neighborhood delivery services.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Foxtrot

Abstract logo with the letters 'onet' in white on a muted green background.

Logo for brilliant Chicago-based design firm, One Design Company. Based on primary geometric forms with endless flexibility. Now celebrating 20 years!

Designed at
Fuller

One Design Co.

A woman wearing sunglasses, a white cap, and a black sleeveless top stands against a white tiled wall.

Logo for LA fashion brand, The Five Nine. Celebrating those who work outside of the 9-5. The 5-9ers if you will. The mark is built from hands positioned on a clock.

Designed at
Fuller

The Five Nine

A black background features a swimming pen and a rock, an airplane flying away with contrails, and a roaring lion on the right, with yellow outlines around each element.

Launch concept for the 10 featuring the all new stylus. All that power in the palm of your hand.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Samsung
10

Collage of four colorful flat-lay images of various hobbies and activities. Top left shows a person wrapping a round object with newspaper at a peach-colored desk with items like passport, camera, pipe, and croissant. Top right features a pink background with various tools and craft supplies, labeled "LUDDITE." Bottom left displays a blue background with a person assembling a Rubik's Cube among objects like headphones, drone, glasses, and phone. Bottom right shows a teal background with a person writing on a notepad amid vintage items including a typewriter, camera, and tennis racket, labeled "GLOBETROTTER."

Stop motion videos highlighting a range of personalities for the mens holiday gift guide.

Designed at
Fuzzco

Bonobos

Evolution of the Airide logo from 1938 to 2023, showing changes in font style and design over the decades.

Logo repositioning an 80 year old air spring product line for the EV future.

Lettering refinements made by the brilliant Jeremy Mickel.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Airide

Brand new Samsung QLED 8K television, model QN800B, displayed on packaging with tagline 'A TV that can change, changes everything.'

Concept art for a new, high performance tv that modifies the lighting of the environment around as the picture changes creating a far more immersive experience.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Samsung,
QLED 8K

A collage of four images showcasing branding and interior design for Sprint, a telecommunications company, with prominent use of yellow, black, and white colors and minimalistic design elements.

Rebrand concept focused on enhancing the experience of the individual, the “i” in Sprint. The yellow circle becomes a graphic device to further highlight service and customer benefits. Though this logo direction did not move forward the identity system surrounding it was applied to the retail environment. This includes the development of Sprint Sans by Christian Schwartz.

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Sprint

Lettering and typeface design for publications, client projects and personal use. Featured: As Is, Bort, Ovis, 5x5, Alphablocks, Pinopolis and Fuller. There is a clear geometric theme happening here.

Designed at
Fuzzco, Leo Burnett and Fuller

Type Design

Public outdoor advertisement poster with a gradient of dark to red hues at the bottom, framed in white, mounted on a beige stone wall. A person walking past the poster, carrying a shopping bag and a backpack.

To celebrate Steppenwolf Theater's 40th year in operation, Ogilvy Chicago asked a number of artists and designers from around the world to submit conceptual interpretations of their favorite play. I loved Farenheit 451 as an angsty teen. Excited to see how I could distill such a layered story.

2016 Clios Shortlist

Designed at
Fuller

Steppenwolf
Theatre

Collage featuring logistics branding, including logos, promotional posters, environmental icon graphics, and an airport scene with an airplane and advertisements.

Art and design direction UPS’s first global advertising campaign, We Love Logistics. The core of the campaign was a series of iconographic hearts communicating the company’s logistical prowess. Because the platform was so technical and global, icons felt like the best solution to clearly connect with a wide ranging audience.

Designed at
Ogilvy

UPS

A collage of company branding and marketing materials for Deskpass, including the company logo, a promotional message about flexible workspaces, and a puzzle piece graphic with text and symbols.

Identity for global co-working SAAS giants, Deskpass. Connecting the two ascending strokes in “desk” to make a “desk” just made sense. This flexible, modular “desktop” was used to then define an iconography set and language principles using an underline.

Designed at
Fuller

Deskpass

Collage of home decor and design items featuring geometric patterns and modern art, including framed abstract art, patterned cushions, bedding, a tote bag, and decorative boxes.

Pattern design collections for modern home goods heroes, Unison. Explored themes derived from Bauhaus design theories and the Memphis art movement. Explored tons of color iterations, product applications and complimentary art objects.

Designed at
Fuller

Unison

Open magazines with colorful pages about heat and Chicago's hot places, featuring bright yellow, orange, and blue backgrounds, illustrations of the sun, and geometric designs.

Heat was a self-initiated project to promote the new Leo Burnett Dept. of Design at the 2012 AIGA members meeting.

We wanted to build off a past project, Where the Wind Blows — An A–Z guide to Chicago — originally produced for the HOW conference the previous year. For the AIGA members meeting this summer we decided to build on the guide concept and explore a seasonal theme for our city. "Heat" is a locals guide to all things hot in Chicago.

Special art submissions from Rick Valicenti, Bud Rodecker and John Pobojewski of Thirst. Designed with Alisa Wolfson at the Leo Burnett Dept. of Design. Copy by David Shermer.

FPO Winner
Offset: Book for Self-Promotion by Leo Burnett Department of Design

Blogged at FPO, It's Nice That, Gridness

Communication Arts 2013 Typography Annual, Brochure Winner

Selected for Chicago Design Archive

Published in Victionary: Heat

Designed at
Leo Burnett

Where the Wind Blows, Heat

A collage of three images with yellow stickers featuring a black outline of two linked figures. The first is a graphic of a basketball court and figures, the second is a man smiling with a mustache and beard, and the third is a black trash can with a yellow sticker.

I love the 'You Are Beautiful' campaign. It's a distilled, powerful statement that fuels self-confidence. I challenged myself to create an image that embodies the sentiment of the campaign without using the ever-present headline. I chose to build a composition of a person smiling in the mirror resembling something of a daily affirmation. I also took aesthetic inspiration from the ubiquitous 'yellow smiley face'. I hope it puts a smile on someone's face!

#yabsticker
@yabsticker

Featured in The Smile Book

Designed at
Fuller

You Are Beautiful,
Artist Edition

Collage of images showing different perspectives and stages of painting a white brick chimney with the word "HOPE" in black letters vertically. Includes a tower with the text, a work table with a canvas, the word "HOPE" spelled out in tiles, a crane, and workers painting the chimney.

“High Hopes.” 4 words installed on the highest point of @kimballartschicago. A beacon of optimism curated by @johallaprojects.

My Fall residency at Kimball Art Center was an amazing experience that gave me the opportunity to create site specific works of all shapes and sizes in and around the building.

Designed at
Fuller

Kimball Art Center,
Artist in Residence

A person wearing a navy blue sweatshirt and matching pants with the amount $142,880 printed on the chest. Next to the person, there is a blue background with a smaller image of a navy blue fabric with the word 'COLLEGE' written on it.

The average cost of college in the United States is $35,720 per student per year. Let's say you take four years to graduate—now COLLEGE means $142,880. I used this information to create an updated version of the iconic ‘Animal House Sweatshirt’ by swapping "COLLEGE" for "$142,880."

Visitors to thecollegesweatshirt.com purchased a sweatshirt to support student debt reform. All proceeds were donated to @debtcrisisorg - The Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) centers the needs and voices of borrowers and partners with allies to impact public policy and end the student debt crisis. (This campaign was not sponsored by SDCC)

#studentdebtcrisis

Designed at
Fuller

College Sweatshirt

Design plan and photos of a modern wooden side table with a rectangular top and open shelving, placed next to a white brick wall. The photos include a close-up of the table with books and a potted plant on top, a diagram with precise measurements, and a stylized alphabet in black outline.
Green modular shelving unit with wooden edges, shown from front and side angles.
Collage of four images of a wooden bench, a vase with flowers, a backpack, and shelf accessories against white brick walls.

In order,

Side side tables,
A series of typographic side tables designed for the annual experimental type competition, Typeforce.

The HumanKind chair,
HumanKind is a Leo Burnett philosophy. The advertising giant commissioned me to create a piece of art to celebrate this idea. The capital 'H' and 'K' are represented in 2 distinct profiles. All built to human scale.

The One Two Three bench,
The One Two Three was conceived as an adaptation to the classic Nelson Bench with the addition of new functions and storage. Built with only 1x1, 2x1, and 3x1 inch slats, each proportion was given a defined use: 1x1 for lighter storage, 2x1 for sitting or primary storage and the hefty 3x1 for primary structural support.

The One Two Three functions as a bench but also serves as a coffee table with removable coasters that slide into the surface slats. The uneven surface is now multi-purpose.

Designed at
Fuller

Furniture

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