I am always looking for new creative challenges and skills
Here are some creative projects I’ve pursued
I created the opening title sequence for an independent film
Film
The Selling (2011)
I worked with writer/producers Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine as well as director Emily Lou to design the opening titles for Redwood Pictures’ independent horror-comedy feature, The Selling, which premiered at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
I painstakingly animated the titles frame-by-frame by hand, then composited and edited with Geoff Mann’s whimsically spooky score.
Sensibility
Modern. Bold. Hand-crafted. The Selling is a film full of homages and history. I settled on a mid-century modern aesthetic for the opening sequence. In the film, the characters are especially affected by their environment and circumstance. To signal this in the credit sequence, the actual titles become a part of this environment and something with which the characters can interact.
Typography
To help strike this modern tone, I started with Univers Condensed and cut out multiple versions of each letterform to add a playful, yet unsettling handmade quality to the titles, establishing a mood that would be carried throughout the film.
Character design
Despite its eventful plot, The Selling is a character-driven film. Inspired in part by Ernest Pintoff's Flebus (1957), the white-painted characters in the titles are simple and distinct against their black and red environment.
I like to paint and draw, both on screen and paper
Digital illustrations
I use a Wacom tablet and Photoshop brushes from Kyle Webster, Retro Supply, and others.
Editorial illustrations
Illustrations for various CNN articles from 2012–13
Copyright © 2012–2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All rights reserved.The Me On My Shoulder
Illustrations for a picture book I wrote and self-published in 2021
Pastel portraits
Pastel on paper, 2005–07
I played with photography for a while, going on safari in Kenya and taking street photos in an empty Chicago during COVID
Street photos
Shot in Chicago with a Fuji X-100F