This app displays the portfolios of the senior, graduating class in the Advertising and Graphic Design Department at the School of Visual Arts. Working with Sebit Min on the user interface design and Ori Kleiner on product management, I designed and developed the app for iPhone and iPad. Targeted towards employers seeking the latest design talent from SVA, the app allows users to mark favorite projects for later viewing, share project details, and access student contact information. Users can also filter by major, search, and see a directory of all students.I also built a custom web service that feeds data to the app, along with a system for students to upload their work. I also developed a set of admin tools and supporting server infrastructure.Marketing site     Download on the App Store

A machine that uses two spinning disks attached to wooden "arms" to create pen drawings. Inspired by Robert Howsare's Drawing Apparatus.

A series of sketches that combine quotes from Charles Baudelaire with photographs of New York City taken during the early 19th century.

An advertisement for the NYC Department of Education to promote enrollment in Universal Prekindergarten. The ad was displayed in bus shelters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx during February-April 2012.The ad was produced in conjunction with the Office of the Mayor.

An online version of the famous Surrealist game, "the exquisite corpse." In the traditional game, someone creates a drawing and folds over the top portion of the paper, leaving only the very bottom edge of the drawing visible. The paper is then passed to another person, who continues the drawing based on the small part of the previous drawing that they can see. In this version, individuals draw using their mouse on an HTML5 canvas. When they save their drawing, they get a unique URL, which they send to a friend. Their friend sees the bottom portion of the drawing and is invited to continue the piece. The drawing can be sent to multiple people, all of whom can contribute to the final product, which is displayed in an online public gallery. Live site

Make Happy Happen is a website I created in the fall of 2011 that facilities personal promises, promotes social sharing to inspire others, and provides relevant, local resources to help users act on their promises.The site is a response to the corporate greed and shopping frenzies of the holiday season, which shields us from the fact many families cannot afford new toys for their children, and for the sick, homeless, and lonely, the holidays can be the most trying time of the year.Make Happy Happen is an attempt to get people to do good deeds rather than buy needless trinkets.The site uses the Facebook and Twitter APIs for social login, which attaches your name and profile picture to your promise. Users have the option of sharing their promise with their friends and followers. To help users find ways to fulfill their promise, the site looks for keywords in promises and searches for relevant resources. Using the user's location from their Facebook or Twitter profile, or their browsers's geolocation API, users are presented with a map of local resources that relate to their promise. For example, if I promised to "help an elderly neighbor," I would see a map of nursing homes in my area, along with their contact information.Coverage:  amNY  School of Visual Arts Blog/Email Blast  SVA Graphic Design and Advertising Blog  Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Twitter  EdGeeks.com  Nourish Fashion ShowLive site

I won the NYC Department of Education Cover Design Competition in 2011. This design was printed on over 150,000 high school directories, distributed across the city to parents, students, and teachers. After this project, I went on to work at the Department of Education and redesigned the Cover Design Competition identity for this year.Coverage:  NY1 News  NYC Digital Roadmap (page 22)  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Blog Cover Design Competition Website

During the summer of 2011, I interned at a New York City startup called BestVendor, which helps individuals find the best apps and services for their businesses and occupations.I worked with the Head of Product and Head of Engineering to design and code new site features and updates: I designed UI interactions, and site elements, did the front-end code, and coordinated with the Head of Engineering to hook it up to the Ruby on Rails back-end. During the time I was there, we redesigned the sign up process, which involved choosing apps that you use and writing reviews on them, and I coded the front-end. I also worked on early-stage product development and user experience design.Beta site

Housecalls Tutoring is a college-prep and general tutoring service in New York City. I designed the website, developed a custom content management system, and designed the logo and stationary, including an envelope and letterhead. Live site

Mother Nurture is a doula service in New York City. I designed the website and logo, as well as developing a custom, easy-to-use content management system for DIY site updates. Live site

The Phoenix is the annual literary magazine of Townsend Harris High School. In collaboration with Zach Temkin, I designed the 27th volume of this publication. We also curated the artwork presented in the magazine, selecting from a body of over 100 submissions. Poems and prose submissions were gathered in part using the online submission tool that I built for this project. I also created a series of advertisements and a concept site for the magazine. In 2012, this volume of The Phoenix received a Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Posters and collateral material for the Citywide High School Fair, an annual Department of Education event that provides middle school students with information regarding high school programs. Printed 2x3 feet and displayed outside the fair.

This companion publication to the High School Directory provides additional information and statistics regarding high school programs in New York City. This is the front and back cover.

Commissioned by the administration of Townsend Harris High School to showcase the fact that the school ranked first in the city in terms of attendance percentage. I used the image of the human hand to represent two ideas: a fundamental image of human existence, and the practice that students raise their hand to indicate their presence in class. To create this composite, I photographed my fellow students' hands and created the slogan, "We are here."

A series of CSS and typographic experiments that contain code words used in telegraphs and their meanings, along with a CSS animation. Live demos:     Babylonite   Â  Russet

A public art installation piece that consists of a canvas hung from the roof of a building, covering the entirety of one of its sides, with a machine attached to it that sprays a programable row of water droplets, line by line. Essentially, it is an inkjet printer with a very low DPI, using water as ink. The machine would print images by slowly traveling down the canvas, spraying a row of water droplets, line by line. Once the image is printed, the machine waits for the water droplets to dry and then travels back up the canvas and prints another image.Individuals can control the imagery produced by the machine using a web app developed in Javascript and PHP, as well as an iPhone app, mockups of which can be seen below.Drawing Creator Prototype (web app)

A proof-of-concept experiment that was to be the basis for a social scheduling website. The sketch allows a user to arrange their schedule and see their free vs. busy time slots, which would have been able to be shared on a social network. Live demo

A Facebook app that presented a "Certificate of Awesomeness" to a friend. Your friend's name would be pulled from their Facebook profile and inserted into the certificate.

A text-based video game prototyped in Python and executed in PHP and JavaScript. Users interact with the game by typing responses to prompts. Plot developed in collaboration with Evan Mancini. Play game

A CSS experiment in which a series of concentric circles pulsate within each other. Live demo

A tool for The Phoenix literary magazine that allows students to upload their work, sign up to become an art contributor, or join the email mailing list. After introducing this system, the magazine experienced a significant jump in the number of entries, as the tool was embedded into the school's website and made it easy for students to submit their work to the magazine. An admin panel was also built to manage submissions and other features. Live demo

A concept mockup for a redesigned schedule for the School of Visual Arts.

Every September, the NYC Department of Education enrolls thousands of new students, many from families who have just moved to the city. This flyer outlines the process and was translated into 9 languages. An accompanying advertisement ran in amNY.

A series of updates to the NYC Department of Education's website under the Choices & Enrollment channel. Each page was redesigned to emphasize time-sensitive alerts and increase clarity in the information architecture.Choices & Enrollment Homepage

Visual materials and collateral for the Round 2 High School Fair offers students high schools that still have seats and recently opened schools. The postcard was sent to over 87,000 middle school students to promote the fair.

Signs for the Enrollment Offices in each borough, printed on 2x3 foot boards and posted outside the offices.

This publication lists the recently opened high schools in New York City. These are various pages and covers used in the final directory.

The T-shirt for staff at the 2011 Citywide High School Fair, the largest annual event of the Department of Education, in which middle school students seek information regarding high school choices.

During the summer of 2011, the NYC Department of Education hosted three workshops to inform parents and students the necessary steps in the high school admissions process. I collaborated with Christina Lu to develop these videos. These are screenshots of the visual design elements of the video.

A student guide to New York City specialized high school admissions.

A publication aimed at high school guidance counselors that provided them with relevant information and materials to aid in assisting students. These are several of the iterations done on the cover design, of which the first shown was printed.

During the 2011 Citywide High School Fair, high school information booths are divided up into floors by borough. This poster was posted around the fair to direct visitors to their borough's floor.

Collateral design for the NYC Department of Education's 2012 Cover Design Competition promoting various aspects of the contest.

To aid in displaying information at the High School Summer Workshops, I created this presentation template based on the High School Directory cover design.

Logo for a NYC Department of Education professional development session.

These are several cover designs and collateral material for the NYC Department of Education's Gifted and Talented program. The colors differentiate the year for which the publications are intended.

An experimental film incorporating stop-motion drawings projected onto real-world objects. The premise is that all objects are alive. These vignettes show various objects waking up in the morning.

A study of sensation and visual composition.

The Newsies! is a high school journalism competition hosted by Baruch College. This is my winning logo in their design contest, accompanied by several iterations. The logo contest was judged by Kris Kiger, EVP, Managing Director, Visual Design at R/GA. The logo was used on The Newsies! website, the Daily News website, and printed on promotional materials and tote bags.

A portfolio website that displays the artwork of my mom. The main color is a function of the current hour, changing as the day progresses. Live site

A selected piece in a series of experimental clock designs. In this instance, the largest circle represents an hour (the clock is limited to one hour), with the smaller circle representing minutes, and the smallest representing seconds. The seconds circle grows until it reaches the size of the minutes circle, which then grows until it fills the hour circle. Live demo

A concept site for The Phoenix literary magazine that was to display the magazine's content online. Live demo

A bare-bones checklist to-do web app for personal use. Working Version

A super-simple web app designed to quickly save transfer notes and file contents between computers. Live demo

This is the design for the school apparel for Townsend Harris High School – a more modern and cleaner version of the previous year's design, this design aims to emphasize the classical foundation of the school, while maintaining a clean, highly graphic aesthetic. The design was printed on shirts, hoodies, and tote bags and sold to support senior class activities.

This is the cover for Founders Day in 2010, a celebration of the foundation of Townsend Harris High School. This is a typographical and graphic representation of the the theme for 2010's commemoration, "Traditions Old and New." I also designed the cover for Founders Day in 2009.

A series of hand-drawn, typographic representations of events and stories.

Ink on paper, 8 x 10 feet, 2011.

A series of 2D design experiments that explore interactions between shapes and forms within an environment limited by color and material.

The Graphics Communications Scholarship Fund hosts a holiday party every year for sponsors and guests. As a winner of a scholarship in 2011, I was asked to create a holiday card design, which was printed and made into cards that were sold online to support the foundation. My entry was printed in both light and dark versions, as well as made into posters for the event.

This is the invitation for the senior prom at Townsend Harris High School in 2011.

As a continuation of 2010's Festival of Nations identity, this project focuses on the breadth of culture and the Earth. It emphasizes our unity has a human race, as well as creating the sense that the celebration is about to land and make a splash.

Festival of Nations is a annual celebration of culture at Townsend Harris High School. I was asked to do the identity for the project, which consists of a logo, invitations, and a poster. I focused on the city has a beacon of the modern era: futuristic typography that is meant to have just landed from space is set in urban settings to create the sense that something big has just arrived. The 2011 identity will further explore this theme.

Along with designing and building the front-end site, I developed a custom class and teacher management system for the school. Teachers can login and edit their own class content, as well as embed images and documents in their page. Administrators can manage teacher accounts and edit site-wide content. Parents and students can send messages to teachers, which teachers can manage in their admin panel. The site has connected parents, teachers, and students in a more immersive way than ever before - a father stationed in Afghanistan thanked the principal because he was able to see the progress of his daughter on their teacher's class page. Parents use the site to schedule meetings with teachers, and students ask for homework help. Administrators also have access to special features, like posting an alert that appears on the front page of the site to indicate school closings. Live site

I designed and developed a custom content management system to handle documents and other data pertaining to the activities of the senior class of Townsend Harris High School. To ensure privacy and relevance, the system restricts access to seniors by checking their ID numbers against a list of known senior IDs.

Harrisfest is the annual rock concert at Townsend Harris High School. I was the art director for the 2010 advertising campaign for the concert. We used colored tape to spell out "HARRISFEST" on the hallway in front of the elevators on each floor. We also did several outlines of people playing guitar and bass. As a teaser, we did one of these stencils in a classroom after school. Everyone was talking about it the next day. So when we wrote out the rest of the letters in the hallway, everyone knew Harrisfest was coming. Along with these tape installations, I created pseudo-caution signs that we posted around the school, along with caution tape spanning hallway sections.

These are several business cards for my mom's various areas of activity. The goal was to create distinct aesthetic qualities while retaining a cohesive identity. The cards are designed to complement each other in terms of color: if they are placed next to each other horizontally, the colors connect on either side of the middle card.

The annual holiday card for Townsend Harris High School, sent out to other schools and principals. Except for the text, the card was created entirely without the use of Photoshop.

The concept behind this series of photographs is the portrayal of ironic words and phrases in settings that creates paradox. The project reminds ourselves to take a step back from of our world of constant chaos and change. It inspires us to consider our everyday actions, basic human functions, and even the most widespread movements in today's culture.

A concept for a Public Service Announcement campaign done in 2008. The project encourages viewers to become vegan by presenting human body parts as animal meat in fine dining settings to show the grotesque quality of meat. The foot and hand pictured in the campaign are those of my brother, edited to look like steak meat.

The Jesus Pack contains everything you need to be come a certified Jesus freak. Stained glass letters so you can spell your name "just like church," a Jesus bobble head, and a pocket-sized Bible. Of course, this is all fictional - the "Jesus Pack" was an exercise in package design and production. The mockup seen below was developed into a paper box, to simulate the experience of buying the Jesus Pack in a supermarket or convenience store.

This is the cover for Founders Day in 2009, a celebration of the foundation of Townsend Harris High School. The school song contains the phrase "Paint you heart gold and crimson," referencing the school colors. This is a typographical expression of that phrase.

This series of posters is aims to illustrate and portray the personality of a "jesus freak." The latter two posters are based on an alphabet of stained glass letters that I produced. These are companion pieces to the Jesus Pack project.

Advertisement for the annual talent show at Townsend Harris High School. Designed with the glossy aesthetic of "Americas Got Talent" and other American television graphics.

This is my personal logo, a symbol of a bird wrapping its wings around the negative image of a heart. It is meant to symbolize my emphasis and esteem for peace and humanity.

Visual design for my first set of business cards.

A PSA concept from 2007, this project is a commentary on the greed of "corporate america." The pieces urge viewers to challenge the way companies market products to them and consider the underlying message behind advertisements.

Poster design for school dance.

As a practice exercise, I posted a Facebook status that offered a free personal logo to anyone who liked the status. These are the logos I created in this exercise, before the number of likes got out of hand and I had to stop accepting requests. Most of the concepts are based on a personality trait or favorite brand, while some are experimentations in typography and form.

A series of advertisements for The Phoenix literary magazine that promoted involvement in poetry readings and invited students to submit work.

The first in a series of experimental graphic design sketches. Continues in Graphic Musings 2.

The second in a series of experimental graphic design sketches. Continued from Graphic Musings 1.

A series of drawings and studies based on a sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Promotional material for the 2010 annual spring concert at Townsend Harris High School.

Drawings and studies done at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A hand-bound book of original poems.

An attempt to redesign the clutter of the New York City subway map, inspired by Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York City Subway Map.

Drawings from a live model at the Art Students League of New York.

A series of sketches experimenting with repeated geometric patterns. A precursor to the much larger cave mural that employs a similar style.

A series of experimental graphic design solutions based on an original poem.

A series of experimental sculptures exploring space, texture and form. Molded, glazed and fired at Townsend Harris High School.

SING is the annual student production of Townsend Harris High School, in which students write, direct, design, perform, and produce an original play. I was the art director for the 2011 production. I designed and oversaw the creation of a 30 x 15 foot backdrop that illustrated a rainforest scene. We constructed six 8-foot three-dimensional trees, using wood, paper, and tape. We also created several miscellaneous set pieces, such as a boulder and two functional teepee tents, as well as an additional set design that recreated the interior of an airplane. I also directed the lighting design (in collaboration with Zach Temkin), back-stage production and set switches during the performances.

Program cover design for the annual winter concert at Townsend Harris High School. A color version was made available as a limited edition print, while the black-only version was printed for the main event.