Various Graphic Design Projects
BINGO Components
BINGO Components is a bicycle accessories brand established by me that began as my grad program capstone project. It is reminiscent of a time in the 1980s and ‘90s when a dedicated community of weirdos, kooks and forward thinking entrepreneurs were revolutionizing mountain biking. These products were fun, unique, and utilitarian.
After completing my degree, I continued building BINGO Components. The company’s mission is to continue the legacy of finding innovative solutions to problems that big bike manufacturers often overlook. Since its inception BINGO has increased production by more than 700% with products available online at BINGOcomponents.com and at bike shops in Portland, OR., Atlanta, Los Angeles, Tucson, Olympia, and Johnstown, PA. BINGO is in the process of completing its first international placement in Japan.
The Runners
The Runners project was a collaborative collection of products developed by the UO Sports Product Design class of 2020, based loosely on the idea of future pioneers. The premise: Pioneers of a fictional far reaching company consolidates the North American population into a single workforce and assumes control of everyday life and government. In this dystopian future the controlling company bans the act of unnecessary physical sport in order to limit the risk of injury to its indentured workers. Myself and a fellow classmate were tasked with developing the the visual graphic language of the project.
Recycle-A-Bicycle
Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB) is a non-profit 501(c)3 that uses bicycles as a means of teaching inner city youth work skills, environmental awareness, community involvement and general healthy living. In addition to managing a retail store, educating youth, training less experienced mechanics, restoring vintage bicycles, and creating custom commuters — I was also the resident graphic designer. I would create flyers for events, sales, for acquiring donations. I also developed logos for youth ride clubs to make the activity feel extra special. In addition, I was also the designer for the Youth Bike Summit, an annual three-day national conference initially developed by Recycle-A-Bicycle; designed and oversaw printing of the event program, signage and other printed materials; updated/maintained the event website. I also led a workshop focusing on in-store merchandising for non-traditional bike shops, and participated in a panel discussion on outside revenue building.
Suffocate
Suffocate was Minneapolis fashion designer Laura Fulk’s first solo fashion show that helped launch her career, Laura is now an in house fashion designer for Target. I collaborated with the producers, Emma Burg and Kris Knutson of MPLSArt.com to develop an identity, as well as print and web collateral for the show. This included press releases, posters, postcards, VIP invites, banner ads for the web, and event programs.
CELEBRITY PARTY GIRLS - 2007
This was my undergraduate senior thesis about celebrity and the media. I mapped the number of times the images of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Nicole Richie appeared in the top three entertainment magazines in the U.S. (based on distribution; People, In-Touch, and Us Weekly). I then counted the number of times their images appeared over a three week period, found the average, and then multiplied those numbers by the three magazine’s total distribution, which equaled the number of times the images appeared in the U.S. Next, I created halftone portraits of the three celebrities (which I gave the name “Celebrity Party Girls”) and replaced the dots with vector icons of the girls hair. Britney is magenta, Paris is cyan, and Nicole is yellow. Once I replaced the dots with the icons I calculated how many icons were in the portrait and divided that by the number of the images published in the magazines. The numbers were astonishing: One Paris icon represents 622.91964 images printed and there are 2,620,000 icons in the portrait. One Britney icon represents 944.7198 images published and there are 3,621,111 icons in the portrait. One Nicole icon represents 1,093.6469 images printed and there are 3,131,111 icons in the portrait.
806,700,000x
A publication made for my senior thesis, 806,700,000x is a collection and exploration based on contemporary society’s fascination with celebrity iconography and wish I had approached this more of a canary in the coal mine sort of moment. The book followed the same research criteria as the Celebrity Party Girls Poster.
In the exhibition the book/magazine was accompanied by three large posters (a break down of the CPG poster, each color layer was printed on clear mylar and hung from the ceiling) as well as a take away zine titled Keep Looking* *Stop.
Various Illustrations
