This client came to me with an ambitious idea for a great website and a need for insider understanding on how to make it a reality and a success. TWIGF, or The World is Gluten Free is a website that aggregates restaurants around the world that offer Gluten Free meals. I designed a look and …

Love it love it love it. I love sitting down, sketching out a concept, and making it sharp for the printer. Here’s a strange experience I never thought I’d encounter: walking down the streets of New York, a piece of paper slid across the concrete caught up in a breeze. I looked down and saw …

With the good fortune to have encountered some wonderful people, I’ve been the luckiest when a camera has been handy. Software and Technology I used on this project:

Of course things that are inanimate are teeming with life if you know how to feel. Of course things that are silent are symphonic if you know how to listen. Of course things that are opaque give you vision into the beyond … you just have to know how to see. Software and Technology I …

Working with organizations that need to distribute important information has allowed me to exercise my chops in designing booklets, pamphlets, graphs and charts, and reports. Here are a few of them. If An Agent Knocks Booklet The awesome cover art on this booklet was designed and executed by Robert Trujillo while I created the layout. …

Orisa CDC, a non-profit organization, worked with me to recreate their web presence. Their previous site was written by a team of coders halfway around the planet – and the code was static HTML, which meant that they depended on the developers availability to make even the slightest text change. I developed a new site …

GTM as in Gummy Bears the Movie as the film titled “Their Eyes Are Watching Gummy Bears.” The filmmakers approached me wanting their static HTML website to be converted to a WordPress site so that they could perform updates without having to pay the hourly rate of a programmer; a common scenario. I began with …

As part of my work with the Center for Constitutional Rights, I was tasked with developing a website that would fit the needs of a coalition of organizations doing work to stop the unfair, racist, and dubiously legal practices of Immigration agencies and local law enforcement in U.S. cities. I chose WordPress as the CMS …

To support the legal case of Goodman et al. v St. Paul et al., I interviewed Amy Goodman and produced a short video that explores the politically charged notions related to the case. Software and Technology I used on this project:

Creating homepage images for the featured content rotator is one of the tasks I perform to maintain the website for the Center for Constitutional Rights at CCRJustice.org. Sometimes humorous, and often layered with meaning, these can be difficult to churn out with such a limited space (most of which is obscured by a navigational system …

In conjunction with their website re-design project, CAAAV asked me to help them develop a new graphical identity. The concepts I designed were intended to convey notions like community, inter-generational, organizing, and modernity.   Software and Technology I used on this project:

During the summer of 2008, representatives from two South Africa land rights movements met with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York (my employer) and invited us to come to South Africa to witness what was happening there. In March of 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights and their US-based partner Take Back the …

On this project, produced for the Center for Constitutional Rights (my employer), I was provided an audio interview track and was asked to produce a video piece that portrayed the power and importance of the message in that audio. This was one multimedia component of the UncoverTheTruth campaign launched by the Center for Constitutional Rights, …

This client didn’t have too many firms ideas on the ID they needed, so I had free reign to determine the direction of the work. I went with something typorgraphically oriented (instead of pictorial). I don’t think the client ever moved forward with the project, but I had fun coming up with these designs!

CAAAV, a community oriented non-profit, came to me to revise and update their online presence and provide them with a website that helps them to accomplish their activism and community organizing. After a couple of meetings and pouring over their responses to a questionnaire I asked various members of the organization to complete, I provided …

My web design and development relationship with MXGM began in 2005 when the membership expressed their eagerness to bring the site’s look out of the mid 90′s. At the time I developed a site based on the Joomla content management system and a heavily customized theme. Since then the site has been through a few …