Branding and character design for Monsoon Joe, Inc., a web development company. The client requested a character described as a "techy-looking, surfer, tough-guy" to be the persona for their company.

Booklet design for a graduate typography course. We were instructed to create a booklet that illustrates and enacts the ideas of a chosen article, staying “true” to the message. I chose Andy Bryan’s “Is me really monster?”…a story about Cookie Monster searching deep within his soul. I slightly condensed the story, and broke it into four journal entries.

Chewna began as a package design experiment. The assignment was to invent an unappealing product and create an attractive/believable package for it.

The success of the package design among my peers led to the creation of chewna.com several years later as a graduate interactive design project. The goal was to build a fun interface, while furthering the believability of the product, by adding product information, and a brief history.