Print work
My original art school training was in print media, typography, and assembled paper works. I was the art director at react magazine (4.2 million circulation) and various agencies designing printed work.
react magazine
The first issue of react magazine was published in 1995. It was the only mainstream magazine in the early days of the emerging online presence of commercial entities to launch a website at the same time as the print magazine.
The news and entertainment teen magazine was distributed during the academic year by 225 newspapers, mainly through “Newspapers in Education” programs. The print version of react reached 4.5 million readers each week, and the website reached an average of 6.3 million people who averaged session times of 50 minutes.
Teens had three ways to voice their opinion: the Web site, letters, or an 800 number. This interactive format was groundbreaking for many in the early days of the Internet.
United States of Poetry
This was a promotional piece created for the PBS series, The United States of Poetry (1996) which documented a 10-week, 13,000-mile road trip, reclaiming poetry as oral, aural performance art. I created it in Photoshop 2.0 which featured no layers and only one “undo.”
playing cards for small hands
This is how I learned Adobe Illustrator back in 1993. My main thesis was that playing cards don’t have an accurate number of pips. For example, a 7 of Hearts actually has nine hearts: the seven hearts at the center of the card and the 2 extra “index” hearts at the corners with the card number.
This deck has the same number of pips as the card number, with at least one pip “peeking” out from the leading edge of the card to indicate the suit. Also, I made the bottom of the cards narrower to allow people with smaller hands to hold a fan of cards. I created woodblock-inspired Illustrator line art of me and my friends for the face cards.
