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I am a designer from Houston, Texas. For many years I studied painting and printmaking. I also was a caricature artist for many years. These skills play into my design with my use of collage and illustration and my use of illustrating type. My works also reflect my personality. Both energetic and colorful. Enjoy!
American Beate This poster is a call for awareness of the apprpreation of black female beauty aesthetics.
Digital Magazine This digital magazine was created to represent the Egyptian goddess Bastet. I designed the magazine with the key words fierce and interactive.
Online Newspaper Re-design African American News & Issues I re- designed the local online newspaper, African American News and Issues. The original design was cluttered and it was difficult to navigate. My key words for this project was community and unity. The newspaper is a small one in Houston, Texas. I wanted the site to be easy to navigate and easy to spread important issues within the community. The angled box shape was inspired by a braid, which inspired me because a braid is a unity of hair forming a stronger structure.
Folly Jazz Poster This project was to create a jazz poster for Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. When coming up with my inital sketches I listened to themusic with these artist together and the sound was very unique to the artist individually. Together they created a whole new sound. I kept this in mind with my sketches. My key words were explosive, energetic, and sultry.
Inital Sketches
For my final images wanted to highlight Dee Dee and Irvin and use Hyperbole to show the exaggeration of feminity, soul, and power. The power is that Irvin as enough power to shoot Dee Dee out of a trumpet. And the feminine characters of the flowers, relating to Dee Dee’s album tribute to Billie Holiday.
Malibu Liquer Re- Branding When designing the new packaging for Malibu Liquer I wanted to keep it classy and gain Malibu a whole new audience.
36 Hour Book These books represent 3 poems to multiple loved ones.