Client: SFMOMA
Studio: frog design
About: In René Magritte’s later painting career after WWII, he used a philosophical device he called the “problem of the window” to generate new and intriguing ways of viewing the world. Magritte’s window images create puzzling paradoxes of both inside and outside views. With surreal elements and events existing simultaneously with reality, they are designed to confound the viewer. The physical windows constructed in the gallery space are manifestations of those seen within the paintings and play off themes to both reveal and conceal objects and individuals.
Each exhibit employs advanced stereoscopic depth cameras, computer-vision face-tracking, and layered digital assets housed inside the frames. The entire interactive space works to place visitors inside the strange world of Magritte’s imagination simply based on their presence in front of each window.
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/rene-magritte/
Role: Visual Designer / Interaction Designer / Art Director
Year: 2018
Stillis means “drip” in Latin. It contains over 500 characters and took several years of development in Fontlab.
Its unique stylization of soft curving terminals was a perfect fit for the headlines and primary copy of "The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the last Monet" at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. A pre-release of my typeface was used by the architecture and exhibitions firm The Cloud Collective to layout the titles, historical timeline, and descriptions of this Monet exhibition.
Exhibition planning and layout: Joris Lipsch and Floriane Lipsch Pic (The Cloud Collective)
http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en/event/water-lilies-american-abstract-painting-and-last-monet
Year: 2018
This series of Google events were created to help train young women who are interested in coding and technology. Using Blockly, a simplified coding language, a user is able to program specific interactions with a computer using small visual snippets and combining them together.
Client: Google
Studio: Obscura Digital
Role: Visual / Experience / Interaction Design
Year: 2015
Client: MFA Thesis
About: Hand-Lettered Drop Caps
Year: 2014
Type puzzle (3D sculpture). Each letter of the alphabet can be created through the combination of specially made wooden pieces.
Client: MFA Thesis
Role: Design / Fabrication
Architectural Installation - Generative Terminal Data: PacBell Building, 140 New Montgomery
Built above a geometric aquarium of live freshwater stingrays
Client: Bloomberg
Studio: Obscura Digital and IwamotoScott Architecture
Role: Visual Designer / Data Research / Interaction
Year: 2015
A large-scale interactive experience in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas
Client: AT&T Stadium
Studio: Obscura Digital
Role: Visual Designer / Interaction
Year: 2015
Client: Oceanic Preservation Society
Studio: Obscura Digital
About: Obscura took over the Empire State Building with a first-of-its-kind live video projection featuring inspiring imagery of endangered species. The show was more than 350 feet tall and 186 feet wide, covering 33 floors of the iconic building. The event and footage was captured and prominently featured as the ending to the documentary “Racing Extinction”. It premiered on Discovery Channel in 220 countries and was watched by 17 million people.
Role: Visual / Motion Designer
Year: 2015
3D Ampersand Sculpture
CLIENT: Westfield Labs
STUDIO: Obscura Digital
ABOUT: Prism is a standing interactive shopping experience. Shoppers are able to digitally browse multiple different products and brands in a larger-than-life format, while key elements of the image are highlighted. If included on the system, retailers are able to guide shoppers to a specific store. Built from scratch, this system included unique physical fabrication, a new interaction model, creative coding, and content creation and photoshoots.
Brands included: Bose, Microsoft, Sandro, Lush and Maje among many others.
ROLE: Visual / Interaction Designer
YEAR: 2014
CLIENT: SCAD MFA Thesis
DESCRIPTION: Generative Design
Hundreds of unique numbers drawn using an algorithm created in Processing.
YEAR: 2013
The Tipping Point Community is a Bay Area based non-profit that helps fight poverty though education, work, and rehabilitation efforts. Common Ground is a mobile youth-oriented service that helps young people after they have been released from custody, such as juvenile detention.
Client: T-Lab
Studio: frog design
Role: Visual Designer / Interaction / Animation / Illustration
Year: 2016
Particle simulations in After Effects - speculative branding and art for the World Science Festival.
Client: MFA SCAD
CLIENT: Deutsche Telekom
STUDIO: frog design
ABOUT: These interactive installations were designed and built to display the viability and flexibility of the Edge Network. This technology functions by letting users access the internet though telecommunications networks, which are in more locations than standard servers. Using these closer access points to the internet, the connection speeds are quicker.
Three future use cases displayed in these exhibits are autonomous vehicle communication, remote controlled robotics, and quicker emergency information through augmented reality. Each exhibit has two different modes. One mode connects over the standard network, while the other shows improvement of employing the edge network in the color pink.
ROLE: Visual Designer / Interaction / Illustrator
YEAR: 2017
In this short story, a blind man who was given the gift of sight argues with his wife about the nature of light. While he is seeing things new for the first time, her perceptions have been embedded and become mundane after many years. To me it’s a lesson about creativity and how to always see the world with new eyes.
Year: 2013
CLIENT: Lumina SF
STUDIO: Obscura Digital
ABOUT: Panoramic digital projection for a luxury apartment complex in San Francisco.
YEAR: 2015
Explorations in typography and light - long exposure photography
In this animated video, the advantages of IBM OpenScale are outlined, along with the future of how AI will revolutionize business.
Motion: Ryan Jones & Shaun Abernathy
Role: direction, style frames, asset creation
CLIENT: Aricent
STUDIO: frog design
ABOUT: The DITTO wearable is built for parents and kids to check-in while giving the child freedom to explore. In combination with a mobile application, parents are able to set geofences that send alerts when the watch ventures outside a pre-set zone. If the child wants to contact the parent, a simplified call feature is included with the device. Other features include an SOS, map directions, and pairing with other DITTO devices so kids can make friends. In a world of increasingly complex digital devices, the screen resolution is purposefully low. The user interface was designed to work with this pixel density, including an unique typeface.
The name “DITTO” comes from the center divide of the physical watch where the two identical pieces meet.
ROLE: Visual Designer / Interaction
YEAR: 2017
CLIENT: University of California, San Francisco Hospitals
STUDIO: frog design
ABOUT: UCSF asked frog to help envision the intensive care devices of the future. Currently, the emergency room environment is a chaotic, noisy, and stressful place. Yet, doctors like Rachael Callcut M.D. hope for a future where hospitals can be a calming place, even when it’s the patient’s worst day. I worked with the frog film team to produce a futuristic user interface that scales across devices and use cases.
ROLE: Visual Designer / Interaction
YEAR: 2017
Description: Hand-Drawn / Digitized Numerals
Math is beautiful.
Year: 2015
