DIRTY NAPKIN
In 2023, I co-founded Dirty Napkin out of an eagerness to work on more creative client projects. Over two years later and we’ve become a full branding and strategy studio for small businesses, national nonprofits, and independent creatives.
Being at the core of a small team has given me lots of experience in playing all types of studio roles, from creative director to designer to project manager to company strategist to client relations.
These projects are sneak peaks of collective works with with my co-founders Evan Whitaker and Nick Evangelinos, and you can find more on the Dirty Napkin website.
THE WINDOW
The Window is the new take-out restaurant for Philly landmark Bob & Barbara’s Lounge. We designed our own altered checkerboard grid with gooey squares as a visual tie to the menu of greasey comfort food, American diner tiles, and the Bob & Barbara’s interior. The Window was featured in Philadelphia Magazine.
THOSE EYES
Those Eyes is a psychological thriller about a man who is chased through different environments by a mysterious figure. A design system of hand-made physical collage was crucial to juxtaposing the variety of locations and filming styles, and to pay tribute to practical effects and independent filmmaking.
AMERICAN SCRIPTURE PROJECT
American Scripture Project is an educational curriculum cultivating civil discourse on democracy through the lens of historic texts. We built the design system from stamps and grids inspired by American immigration paperwork, extra white space on the ASP handouts so that participants could write notes, and a dog-eared document logo with multiple nods to American iconography.
THe lemonade stand
The Lemonade Stand is an underground performing arts production company producing and celebrating fresh contemporary works in Philly. As our first “design sprint,” we designed this logo in two weeks with meetings squeezed into lunch breaks, nights, and weekends, and it was so much fun.