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Dress Code
Surface Research • Risograph Printed Booklet • 5” x 8” • Fall Semester
A 12-page book about, “The effects of toxic corporate workplace culture and fears of being an unexceptional, monotonous, lifeless laborer.” Heavily inspired by my own fears of a boring future which I decided to represent through an imaginary dress code. The cover was printed on a cut-up manilla folder, sized to the book’s specifications. The interior pages were first printed with a laser printer in black ink, then the red areas were printed using a Risograph printer, creating a contrast between the controlled laser ink and the unpredictable Risograph ink—able to smear and transfer across the paper.
Onomatopoeia
Surface Research • Gouache Painting • 22” x 30” • Fall Semester
Students were tasked with finding 60 examples of type in their lives and creating a painting based on 1-3 words that describe their artistic/creative practices using the captured examples of type. Naturally, I resorted to the long boxes at the local comic shop to find my typefaces. Aside from its obvious significance in comic lettering, I felt that “onomatopoeia” represented my creative practice because of its reductive nature—simplifying a real-world experience of sound into a single word, and a word that in turn interacts with the world through the power of visual communication.
Giant-Size Machism-O-Matic
Surface Research • Risograph Prints on Plywood • 4’ x 6’ • Fall Semester
Giant-sized ad page inspired by advertisements in 1960’s-70’s comic books. They often sold whimsical gadgets which appealed to toxic masculine fantasies. While my exaggerated ad page satirizes these concepts, a handful of them were actually circulated (x-ray specs, bodybuilding programs, kung-fu, hypnosis, ring sets). The Risograph was perfect for imitating the off-center registration of cheap, four-color processed comic books.