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Selected Work

Thirty years
of things that
had a job.

Book covers that had to sell off a shelf. Campaigns that had to fill a room. Packaging that had to survive a retail rack. None of it was made to win an award — it was made to work, and most of it did.

30Years in
7Disciplines
1Person on it
Highway billboard for Kepple's Carpet and The Record Museum

Two businesses under one roof, six seconds of highway, and one line that had to make sense at 65 miles an hour.

Kepple's Carpet & The Record Museum

Outdoor
Under The Flowers series campaign artwork on a street billboard

A small independent series needed to look like it belonged next to studio releases — same billboard, same street, same eye level.

Under The Flowers

Campaign / Key Art
The Underrated Rock Book cover design

A music reference title competing on a crowded shelf, where the cover has about two seconds to say what kind of book this is.

The Underrated Rock Book

Book Cover
Beach Barfly t-shirts in two colorways worn at a bar

A shore-town apparel line that had to work on a sixty-year-old at the bar and a thirty-year-old on the beach, without pandering to either.

Beach Barfly

Apparel / Merch
The Halloween Girl boxed set packaging

An indie horror property that needed retail packaging convincing enough to sit beside the majors without a major's budget.

The Halloween Girl

Packaging
The Saloon Rock Club Radio Show neon sign identity

A radio show that needed a mark with a room behind it — something that felt like a place you'd walk into, not a logo on a schedule.

The Saloon Rock Club

Identity
TuneUp Weekly magazine cover

A regional music magazine that had to read as a real publication from the first issue, before it had any audience to prove it.

TuneUp Weekly

Editorial Design
Balkun Brothers live show poster

A club show poster doing three jobs at once: name, date, and the promise that the night will be loud.

Balkun Brothers

Show Poster
Philly Rock Radio t-shirt worn on a city street

Station merchandise built to be worn by choice rather than handed out free and never seen again.

Philly Rock Radio

Identity / Apparel
Athletech Gaming identity applied to a team jersey

An esports brand that needed a mark strong enough to survive being stretched across a jersey, a stream overlay, and a phone icon.

Athletech Gaming

Identity / Apparel
Sons of Ben supporters scarf design

Supporter merchandise for a soccer club, where the design has to be legible from across a stadium and worth owning up close.

Sons of Ben

Apparel
Philly Rock Radio full page magazine advertisement

One expensive page that had to do the work of a whole campaign, in a magazine readers flip through fast.

Philly Rock Radio

Print Advertising
Basher In The Afternoon show artwork on a phone

Show artwork that had to survive being shrunk to a thumbnail in a podcast app and still read from arm's length.

Basher In The Afternoon

Show Artwork
Marlton Eye Associates business card system

A medical practice whose printed materials were quietly undercutting how good the practice actually was.

Marlton Eye Associates

Identity / Print

Credentials

Work that went
somewhere serious.

Break Even

Campaign and print materials for a documentary on gambling addiction, produced for the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey with director Richard T. Wilson. The film went on to Communicator Award and Outreach Festival recognition.

Film Campaign / Public Health
Outreach Arts

Ongoing design and promotional work for a production company specializing in public service and advocacy films, serving the problem-gambling awareness community since 2001.

Design Partner

What's Not Here

The best of it is under someone else's name.

A large share of thirty years' work sits under confidentiality agreements and belongs to the clients who paid for it. What's on this page is the portion that can be shown. It's a fraction, and it's enough to tell you whether we should talk.