This is a typographic / font creation piece I designed and built for my senior art exhibition in 2009. Later on in college I really became interested not only in font creation for print, but also fonts that take on a deeper meaning in a sculptural and physical form. This font was carved out of ivory soap bars which gave the letters their form but also a nice aroma. This particular piece received the first place award in Morehead State University’s Senior Art Exhibition.
This is a poster I designed and illustrated for my friend and talented musician Joey Thieman. This was a really fun project for me because Joey and I sat down together talked about music and looked at some of our favorite jazz posters and album covers. Our discussions helped me gain inspiration and an idea of what he would like his poster to look like. It was a lot of fun creating a poster that visually paired well with his musical style. It was so rewarding to get to design for something I love, music.
This piece was featured in and won first place at Marshall University’s juried regional exhibition; Art in a Time of Social Change. It was published and received the 1st place visual art award in the 2009 edition of Morehead State University’s art and literary magazine Inscape. It also won the 1st place digital art award at the 10th annual Mount Sterling Art Exhibition. I originally created this piece as a sort of stencil for an aquatint print or acid etching. I wanted the print to be really big but the printing equipment I had at the time couldn’t handle anything as big as I wanted. I kept the digital format "stencil" and printed 4ft x 3ft posters for friends and whoever else wanted them. I never intended or imagined this piece receiving as much attention as it has.
I designed and built this piece for my senior art exhibition at Morehead State University in 2009. It is constructed of an 8ft x 4ft piece of plywood, a few hundred nails, and three colors of yarn. 