I am a designer.

SXSW Rebrand Project

This was a school project and not actually associated with SXSW in any way. Simple event re-branding done by yours truly.

This project won a silver Advertising Honors award from the Fort Wayne chapter of the American Advertising Federation.

Fusion800

Check out a playlist of videos showcasing the processes of this project here: Fusion800: 3D Printed Movable Type

The letterpress has been an instrumental aspect of typography for centuries. The mechanical process of raised letterforms transferring ink to paper has a humanistic quality that exemplifies our senses and emotions. Movable type has seen centuries of adaptations—lead, wood, polymer and more; along with the creation tools and technologies—such as pantographs, plate makers, and computer.

We suggest letterpress printing and moveable type has untapped life yet to be revealed. Our investigation embodies 3D printing technologies to create a moveable typeface with humanistic qualities and voice. This moveable typeface explores the challenging demands of the mechanical properties of 3D printing methods applied to the creation of moveable type, its design, and printing embracing the mechanics of the machine to create a typeface never intended to meet the standards of perfection, but to embody the inherent artistic and humanistic aesthetics of the machine pushing technology to its limits to discover how human a 3D printing machine can get.

We had the amazing opportunity to present this project in the main conferece of TypeCon2017 in Boston, MA. Videos of this will be up shortly.

The idea was to blend old printing technologies with new printing technologies, and keep things as affordable as possible so people could build off our idea moving forward.

"Mechanical diagram" of the typeface fonts, just for fun.

The name Fusion800 comes from a few different sources. ONE: It's the fusing of old and new technologies. TWO: the 3D printing process we used is called FDM (Fused Disposition Modelling) as it fuses layers of plastic together. THREE: Our goal was to

Bounding boxes were made to easily scale the type to proper point sizes, and accurately scale the various fonts of each letter accordingly.

TinkerCAD was used, again, to keep things affordable and easily accessible to anyone who wants to build off what we've done.

Keeping with the theme of affordability, machines from SeeMeCNC were used that were in the $500 range. You could easily imagine a 3D printer like that being in your home or office.

Prints fresh off the bed needed MINOR finishing work done as to minimize damage to the letterpress to practically zero.

Extra padding was needed for a proper impression.

Mineral spirits are typically used to clean the ink off wood type, but on PLA filament it's a no-no.

Baby oil and good-old soap n' water is a much less abraisive option with this material.

I'd say that humanistic quality was definitely found within the machine.

Triangle, square, and circle letterforms in alphabetical order. No, I'm not calling you a ho.

Huge shout out to SeeMeCNC ,  Reich Paper , Type High Letterpress , and the Type High interns for all the hard work and support on this project!

FortLUG

As a proud member of the Fort Wayne LEGO Users Group (FortLUG), I was super excited when I was asked to redesign the group's logo in preparation for the 2017 Brickworld Fort Wayne.

Revisions were made using input from the FortLUG members between meetings and email chains.

Back t-shirt mockup. I didn't have a back t-shirt stock mockup template so I just used the front one again. Just pretend this is the back of a t-shirt.

SBPD For the Cure

I was approached by the South Bend Police Department to design t-shirts for their October 2016 Breast Cancer Awareness Month fundraiser.

The fundraiser was a huge success, and supporters all around the South Bend area have these shirts with my designs on them now. It was an amazing opportunity and I can't wait to work with them again!

Fort RT

This is a simple logo design I threw together for Fort RT, the Fort Wayne Rooster Teeth fan community. Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunter, and FunHaus logos weren't my own work.

You can find them on Facebook HERE.

Troops in White

This poster project was both photographed and custom vectored by myself. I turned the image into a classic propaganda style poster, using modern day information with old time wording. 501st Legion and local Northern Darkness Garrison information was added to be used as advertising for the 501st. Upon request, a variant was made for the Polish Garrison.

Original Sandtrooper model: Joel Ruprecht (TD-3253)

Destiny: The Movie

A movie poster project done for another class. NO association with Microsoft or Bungie.

I used to use a working name of "CD Works" before just going by my full name, so it makes a lot of cringe-worthy appearances within this piece. Ignore my stupidity.