ABOUT: I designed the typeface Stillis, which 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
CLIENT: Google
STUDIO: Obscura Digital
DESCRIPTION: 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.
ROLE: Visual / Experience / Interaction Design
YEAR: 2015
Client: MFA Thesis
About: Hand-Lettered Drop Caps
Year: 2014
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
CLIENT: MFA Thesis
ABOUT: Type puzzle (3D sculpture)
Each letter of the alphabet can be created through the combination of specially made wooden pieces.
ROLE: Design / Fabrication
YEAR: 2013
ABOUT: Typographic Spencerian script exploration - repeat pattern
YEAR: 2016
CLIENT: Bloomberg
STUDIO: Obscura Digital and IwamotoScott Architecture
ABOUT: Architectural Installation - Generative Terminal Data: PacBell Building, 140 New Montgomery
Built above a geometric aquarium of live freshwater stingrays
ROLE: Visual Designer / Data Research / Interaction
YEAR: 2015
Studies in negative space, line, form, and existentialism.
CLIENT: AT&T Stadium
STUDIO: Obscura Digital
ABOUT: A large-scale interactive experience in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas
ROLE: Visual Designer / Interaction
YEAR: 2015
CLIENT: Google Campus
DESCRIPTION: Marbled acrylic painting studies for Google Campus
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
ABOUT: Ampersand 3D Sculpture / Paint / Photography
YEAR: 2015
CLIENT: T-Lab
STUDIO: frog design
ABOUT: 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.
ROLE: Visual Designer / Interaction / Animation / Illustration
YEAR: 2016
CLIENT: MFA SCAD
ABOUT: Particle simulations in After Effects - speculative branding and art for the World Science Festival.
YEAR: 2012
DESCRIPTION: 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
Explorations in typography and light - long exposure photography
Studio: MACH
DESCRIPTION: Hand-Drawn / Digitized Numerals
Math is beautiful.
YEAR: 2015
