This website is an onging experimentation with code as medium, digital ephemera, and the beauty of design contraints.

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2024 DIY "calendar" / WIP

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This calendar is designed to be as modular, open-source, accessible, and DIY as possible. Inspired by the need to get things done, and the will or lack thereof to do so, the process of design for this "calendar" became an intense, emotional, and reflective process over the course of several months in the year of 2023. In the end, the design functioned as a response to a personal need to remember something, or someone (ourselves or otherwise), important.

Each "calendar" contains 12 monthly pocket-size to-do list booklets. Each booklet employs a dynamic cascading grid with modular space for each day of each month. Booklets can be removed each month for daily use.

The container cover, built with a "Mississippi" binder, functions as storage for monthly booklets that are not currently in use, and incorporates a calendar of the 2024 year from beginning to end.

The cover design, which functions also as an invoice of cost and material, incorporates two open-source typefaces (Google Fonts).

To explore the modularity and graphic quality of the cascading grid, booklet cover designs are generated by creative programming via P5.js. Further documentation on the code and integration of tools in the project coming soon.

The calendars and booklets are printed in black and white, and color is introduced via material (paper).

COMPONENTS:
SLIP-COVER
CONTAINTER-COVER
MISSISSIPPI-BINDER (ACCORDION-BINDER)
MONTHLY-BOOKLETS

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To order a custom calendar, please visit the following link:
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Thanks to:
My dogs / My students / Ryan / Rachel / Taggert / Daniel / Hunter / Amber / Mary / Graham / My family / Birds / Music / Love / Grief / 2023 / Mississippi /
Many
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___More

#opensource #bookbinding #mississippi #calendar #2024 #DIY #bookdesign #experiment #alternativedesign #somethingimportant #someoneimportant

The Mississippi Bind, or Mississippi River Bind, is an accordion style binding system that incorporates a series of cuts, scores, and folds to create a modular booklet insert method as an alternative to more traditional methods of book binding.

The Mississippi Bind is an ongoing research project into methods of open source, accessible, and alternative book binding, focusing on use of minimal or limited material and tool availability.

The graphic structure of the Mississippi Bind, with its meandering zigs and zags, is reminiscent of the twists and turns of the Mississippi River. Along with its conception in the state of Mississippi itself, this is where the system finds its name.

This project is under construction and ongoing.

#m!ss!ss!pp!

Wedding invitation designed for love and some dear friends.

The "flowers" are built from a grid a two tessellating shapes, each functioning as positive and negative space for the other. Laser cuts are incorporated to produce a threshold among the flowers, and a frame for typography.

#love

This projects functions both as an experimentation of alternative methods for image and printmaking, as well as a reflection on the Mississippi (M!SS!SS!PP!) identiy.

The prints are made on sixty-three 1950s Mississippi highway and county maps, donated to the MSU Art Department on behalf of the MSU Department of Geosciences. The print itself, an image of my own backyard, is carved into a foam insulation tile and printed onto each map directly.

These printes are available for purchase.

#alternativemethods #imagemaking #printmaking #m!ss!ss!pp!

Key Visual for a previous exhibit at the Black Prairie Blues Museum in honor of Mississippi's Black History. The exhibit featured a series of commemorative posters designed by students of my Graphic Design 2 course to represent figures of Mississippi Black History.

The goal of this project is to engage my students, as well as myself, in a dialogue with this history, and to merge this dialogue with the practice of design. The result is 25 A1 posters that focus on visual development via research. It is important to make clear that, even though this project was inspired and compelled by Black History Month, this conversation on diversity and the history of our diversity via the practice of design should not be examined selectively but always. Featured figures include writers, activists, martyrs, musicians, and Mississippi blues pioneers. Although the exhibit shows a selection of important figures, chosen by each student, it stands to represent all the black heroes who came before us and those who continue to make a difference for everyone today.

#mississippi #blackhistory #blues #blackhistorymonth #blm #blacklivesmatter #design #msucaad #posterdesign

Tokem Smithing is a privately owned silver and jewelry smithing business based in Colorado. Each piece is hand made, molded, and cared for.

The aim of this project was not only to develop a logo system and logo display face, but to create a fully immersive design system that shares form, grid, and style from one mark to the next.

#logo #logodesign #typefacedesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

These experiments explored the intersection of two eras of technology; creative programming via Processing, and an XY Oscilloscope.

Utilizing simple math and as minimal code as possible, the goal of this project was to translate the motif of a haiku, to create short form coded visual poetry using basic forms, and then to display and run the code through the analog method of an Oscilloscope to observe the changes in texture and motion. The outputs seen here are recordings of the Oscilloscope display.

#creativecoding #analog #poetry #oscilloscope #processing

TILES is a collaborative project between myself and potter, poet, architect, artist, and friend Daniel Smith.

The book reflects one of his conceptual architectural processes of tile making into the production of a book that outlines both our relationship as friends and peers, but also as creatives.

#book_design #architecture #editorial #ceramics #layout

Key Visual for a previous exhibit at the Black Prairie Blues Museum in honor of Mississippi's Black History. The exhibit featured a series of commemorative posters designed by students of my Graphic Design 2 course to represent figures of Mississippi Black History.

The goal of this project is to engage my students, as well as myself, in a dialogue with this history, and to merge this dialogue with the practice of design. The result is 25 A1 posters that focus on visual development via research. It is important to make clear that, even though this project was inspired and compelled by Black History Month, this conversation on diversity and the history of our diversity via the practice of design should not be examined selectively but always. Featured figures include writers, activists, martyrs, musicians, and Mississippi blues pioneers. Although the exhibit shows a selection of important figures, chosen by each student, it stands to represent all the black heroes who came before us and those who continue to make a difference for everyone today.

This poster features beautiful typefaces that explore important black narratives and promote diversity in design including VTC Du Bois by Vocal Type and Redaction Typeface by Forest Young and MCKL Type as an extension to the Redaction Project by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Betts.

The abstract graphic form interacting with the type stands to represent the windows through which we revisit and recall these histories, but also the difficult thresholds that African americans have had to step through in order to overcome disparity.

The "X" form found in the background refers to similar forms that can be found historically in flags that symbolize neo-confederate, anti-black, extremist right, and racists ideologies. It is featured here as a reminder of what we have taken far too long to overcome, and continue to face, here in Mississippi, as well as to reclaim the graphic form of the "X" into new symbolism.

#mississippi #blackhistory #blues #blackhistorymonth #blm #blacklivesmatter #design #msucaad #posterdesign

The aim of this project is to observe and study the fragility of the american identity in the year 2020, as well as my own perceptions of my personal identity as an american from Mississippi, via experiments with flag manipulation and creation, and data abstraction.

This project crosses the threshold of many disciplines, as the design practice often does, including but not limited to: anthropology, vexillology, journalism, and statistics.

The objective is to study the cultural identity of the United States of america relevant specifically to politics, events, culture, and ways of living in the year 2020, and in turn question my own american Identity. I will do so by manipulating images of american symbolism, specifically the american flag, by means of both analog and digital processes.

My goal is to collect and use data relevant to these topics in order to create an anthology of experiments.

I choose to use the term data abstraction as opposed to data visualization, as I do not hope for these experiments to stand as practical applications for understanding data, but rather understandings of many concepts that are supported by the influence of data.

DESIGN QUESTION(S):

1. In what ways can the manipulation and creation of flags be used to express current and ongoing narratives by way of data abstraction?

2. What are the inherent rules of flag design, and how are these narratives contained, received and sustained in the flag as a medium over time?

#creativecoding #research #vexillology #flag #usa #2020 #data_visualization

Vexillologlitch project aims to show the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States in real time. The tool functions as a timeline, using NYT data to manipulate the image of an american Flag.

This project is under construction

#creativecoding #research #vexillology #flag #usa #data_visualization

Key visual, identity, social media, and website design for the Design History Society annual conference, Memory Full?, held virtually from Basel, Switzerland.

This project focused on abstracting objects and motifs of memory, focusing on a pseudo-surrealistic approach that began with the abstraction and translation of hard drives as an object.

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#keyvisual #poster #identity #designhistory #swissdesign

My portolio site is not only a space to archive and document work, but also to continue my experimentation and exploration with code as medium.

These sketches exhibit different P5.JS interfaces that have been used as landing pages or interactions among my site(s). Above all, they are for exploring, playing, and experimenting.

#creativecoding

This book is designed to contain my final Thesis research at the FHNW Basel School of Design, Visual Communication Institute.

The book is hand printed, Swiss bound, and completed in beautiful, downtown, Basel, Switzerland.

#book_design #research #creativecoding #design_research

Daniel Phillips Smith is a potter, poet, architect, artist, and friend. This book is number two in a series of collaborations. This book outlines Daniel's projects, research, experiences, and friendships that were made during his time in the Master of Architecture program at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

The book is hand printed, Swiss bound, and completed in beautiful, downtown, Basel, Switzerland.

#book_design #architecture #editorial #ceramics #layout

This is a logo(?)

ONE OF ONCE is a one of a kind entertainment and event managing and booking experience.

The goal with this project was to break the preconcieved notions of logo design, and to create a logo that becomes as versetile as the brand itself.

#logo #logodesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

Flyer and website design for the Starkville, MS Food Not Bombs chapter.

Here you see an ongoing archive of the posters for each month's meal share. Solidarity over charity!

STARKVILLEFOODNOTBOMBS.ORG

#flyer #posterdesign #foodnotbombs #solidarity

Nantahala Rafting with Fast Rivers is a premiere stop for white water rafting in western North Carolina.

The logo was designed to be modern and rustic, exciting but welcoming, and to stand out among its peers in the Nantahala gorge.

#logo #logodesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

OSLO NIGHT is an annual culture and arts festival held at the Dreispitz area in Basel, Switzerland that takes place from sun-up to sun-down. The festival highlights a mix of mediums, institutions, ideas, and exchanges.

The key visual for this year, coming out of the first summer of Covid-19, was to be a lighter subject matter to gather around. However, this was not to distract from the seriousness and integrity of the festival. After many discussions, it was decided to use popsicles for the key visual.

#keyvisual #poster #identity #designhistory #swissdesign

Lyric video for 1:43 AM by Aidan Pohl

#lyricvideo #musicvideo #music #musicdesign

Lyric video for Tired Eyes by Aidan Pohl

#lyricvideo #musicvideo #music #musicdesign

Aidan Pohl is a storyteller, songwriter, and musician from Mississippi currenlty based in Los Angeles, California. His music is emotional, captivating, and tells stories with a poetic contrast between hyper-specific and personal, and universal qualities. Most of all, Aidan writes love songs.

#logo #logodesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

Designed with Lusine Saghatelyan, this poster explores the bridge that is formed when two cultures come together. In this case, Switzerland and Armenia.

#keyvisual #poster #exchange #language #collaborative

Cover design for the 110th Rotary Magazine.

#keyvisual #poster #rotary #magazine #coverdesign

NF-TVS is a design research project completed for the International Master of Design Thesis at FHNW HGK Basel and UIC Chicago. All experimentation and research was conducted in Basel, Switzerland.

The aim of this project is to take a critical and experimental approach to the topic of NFT art spaces and marketplaces. To question the tangibility, value, and effects of these spaces, which otherwise remain unseen, out of view, and unfelt.

This project is an experimentation in information design and data visualization. More specifically, I am working in the realm of data abstraction, which by my definiton fuctions as an intersection between emotional and practical data visualization design.

NF-TV.ORG

#research #data_visualization #nft #climatechange #creativecoding

This project is about restrictions in space and freedom during the initial lockdowns brought on by the COVID 19 pandemic. What does it mean to find freedom in a time where freedom is confined for the greater good? What does freedom look like in COVID 19 times?

#research #freedom #perspectives #constraints

NARAY is a DJ and creative based in LA, California.

NARAYMUSIC.COM

The study of the relationship between open and confined space, 2D and 3D space, and the conversations bewteen these spaces take the form of a multitude of outputs, sketches if you will. Even the final product, the three panels in physical space, exists as a sketch.

The main symbolic theme throughout the explorations, is the window motif. For many, the view from behind our window s at home became the new perspective during lockdown times. To me, this view begged the question, “what are the windows we look through, and what perspectives on freedom can we take in these times?”

#logo #logodesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

iL Lupo (the wolf) is a Mississippi based premiere coffee shop, serving under the Italian tradition of fine coffee, and the influence of Mississippi Blues champion, Howlin’ Wolf.

#logo #logodesign #systematic_design #identity #branding

This infographic poster responds to the mass shooting in Las Vegas in October of 2017, and acts as a template for mass shooting awareness posters.

#keyvisual #poster #activism #guncontrol

The VIEWS poster asks the onlooker to review themselves, break their image down, and rebuild themselves anew.

This poster was featured as a finalist in the 2016 Skopje International Poster Competition.

#keyvisual #poster #views