DIRTY NAPKIN
Dirty Napkin LLC is a design studio for the curious, the creative, the ambitious, and the up-and-coming that I co-founded. When we first started in 2023, we didn’t know much about design studio-ing, but we were eager to work on more branding projects with passionate clients and to inspire more creatives.
These projects are collective works with my awesome co-founders Evan Whitaker, Nicholas Evangelinos, and Noah Simon.
Our first year and a half has been filled with amazing experiences and opportunities, only making me more excited to work at a studio or in-house team after graduation. Below are our 4 most recent client projects:
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 disassociating and forcefully jumping through different environments as he is chased by an embodiment of his deep-seated grief. 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.