An exploration of editorial hierarchy, grid structure, and typographic clarity, this project reinterprets Under the Surface of Style by Andrew Blauvelt. Created for a Parsons Typography course with Timothy Samara, the work emphasizes the relationship between form and content through careful hierarchy, spacing, and refinement of the written essay.

This foldbook I designed explores a snippet of lyrics from Sharon Van Etten’s Seventeen, reflecting on the transcience of youth and the quiet tension between change and continuity. Through unfolding form and repetition, the piece mirrors how we grow, shift, and yet carry fragments of who we once were. 

WOVEN is an app designed to support more intentional relationships with clothing by making care, longevity, and reflection visible parts of the wardrobe experience. Developed in response to fast fashion and overconsumption, the project explores how digital systems can shift behavior away from accumulation and toward accountability.

The design process focused on translating sustainable values into clear, approachable UI elements—allowing users to track garments over time, document wear and care, and reflect on the lifespan of what they own. Visual hierarchy and interaction flows were intentionally restrained, prioritizing calm navigation and long-term use over novelty.

WOVEN frames sustainability not as an abstract ideal, but as a daily practice embedded in routine. By treating clothing as something to be maintained, remembered, and valued, the app positions design as a tool for cultivating attention, responsibility, and care.

Pomodoro is a brand identity developed for a fictional Italian restaurant, rooted in warmth, simplicity, and a love of shared meals. The project explores how a cohesive visual system can communicate atmosphere and personality before a customer ever walks through the door.

Throughout the process, I designed a complete suite of brand materials—including the logo, menu, magazine advertisement, business card, and app icon—ensuring consistency across both print and digital touchpoints. The identity balances classic Italian references with a contemporary sensibility, aiming to feel inviting, familiar, and thoughtfully crafted.

To highlight the evolution of the final mark, I’ve included my preliminary logo studies, documenting the iterative design process and showing how early sketches and concepts informed the finished identity.

This rebrand reimagines the Newport Folk Festival through a modern visual language while honoring its deep-rooted history as a space for musical exchange, social consciousness, and community. Drawing from the festival’s legacy of activism and tradition, the new identity updates its presence for today’s audiences—bridging generations without flattening its past.

At the center of the system is a custom-designed typeface, created specifically for the project to reflect the handmade, collective spirit of folk culture while remaining bold and adaptable across contemporary platforms. The typography works alongside modular iconography and references to archival ephemera, creating a visual rhythm that feels both grounded and current.

Extending the identity into the digital realm, I built a JavaScript-based website that transforms the logo into a generative system. The mark shifts and reconfigures in real time, echoing the improvisational nature of folk music and reinforcing the idea of the festival as a living, evolving community. Designed to live fluidly across digital and physical spaces, the rebrand emphasizes accessibility, inclusivity, and collectivity—values that have always defined Newport Folk, now expressed with renewed clarity and motion.

REWIRE is a self-published zine that examines the pro-choice movement through the history and symbolism of coat hanger abortions. Using editorial design and image-making, the project confronts the realities of restricted access to reproductive care and the human cost of criminalization. The zine aims to reframe a widely recognized symbol not as shock, but as evidence—inviting readers to reflect on autonomy, safety, and the consequences of legislation on lived bodies.

This project began as a digital act of upcycling—reimagining the early-2000s, superfan website onlypollypocket.com through a contemporary lens. Created for my Design History class, Pollyworld revives the playful logic, saturated colors, and earnest interactivity of early web culture, while speculating on how that space might exist today with an AI component embedded within it.

The site draws heavily from nostalgic interfaces—clickable worlds, dress-up screens, collections, and message systems—treating them not as outdated relics, but as design languages worth preserving and evolving. By introducing an AI “Pocket” companion that helps generate scenes and worlds, the project explores how automation and imagination can coexist, and how today’s technologies might amplify, rather than erase, the joy of slow, tactile digital play.

Pollyworld ultimately asks what it means to care for digital history: how we can recycle visual culture, retain its emotional resonance, and re-activate it for a new generation of interaction.

Book covers I designed. 

Miscellaneous event posters, designed in 2025.