Website Concepts
Map Illustration
Iconography
Saunders is a high-end realty
company devoted to the
Hamptons residential market
in Long Island, New York.
A refreshed website look and
feel was created using a
unified color palette and a
simplified hierarchy of
information and typography,
to reflect the sophistication
of the client’s industry
niche. Original watercolor
illustrations were created
for interactive maps of their
residential properties.
A project with:
Siegelvision, New York
Branding Illustrations
College Board is a not-for-profit
organization that connects
students to college success and
opportunity through programs
and services in college
readiness—including SAT and
the Advanced Placement Program.
A visual system was developed,
incorporating the narrative of the
teacher as a guide and friend
on the journey to college and
beyond. Original illustrations were
created to bring the College Board
cast of characters to life with
playful sophistication.
A project with:
Siegelvision, New York
Editorial Illustration
Original illustrations commissioned
for the article/interview, ‘Famed
Scientist Elizabeth Loftus on
Plausibility of Four Mind-Bending
Films,’ featured in The Credits,
an online magazine that celebrates
film and television. Illustrations
were created using a combination
of hand-drawn sketches,
watercolor painting, and digital
rendering to depict four different
films dealing with the subject
of memory.
Trance Directed by Danny Boyle
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Directed by Michel Gondry
The Manchurian Candidate Directed by John Frankenheimer
Inception Directed by Christopher Nolan
Graphic Short Story (8 pages)
Self-Published
Shown at The Society of
Illustrator's Museum of Comic
& Cartoon Arts Festival 2013,
and featured on Dean Haspiel's
TRIP CITY, this graphic short
story collaboration with writer
Charles Soule (Daredevil,
Strange Attractors,
Superman/Wonder Woman,
Swamp Thing, She Hulk,
Strongman Vol. 1 and 2),
combines romance and
architectural history to tell
the story of Sal—a warehouse
in Brooklyn—who falls in
love with Chrys—the
Chrysler building. The story
artwork begins in black
and white, with Sal rendered
in washed out color,
growing richer in tone until
the final scene completes
the story in full color.
Pencil on paper
Pen and ink on paper
Ink on paper, hand-colored
Theater Poster
Postcard
A play about three generations
of a Puerto Rican family who
serve in three different
wars: Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq.
The central theme of strong
family and cultural bonds
between generations was
brought to life in the play with
the underlying metaphor of
the mother’s garden and its
growing vines. The creative
solution was a graphic illustration
of three generations of war
helmets and a garden vine—
appearing as barbed
wire—weaving between the
helmets with the flag of
Puerto Rico in the background.
Preliminary sketches capture
the initial concept, in addition
to some early ideas that did
not make the cut, including a
composite of the family members
within the youngest son leaving
for war, and a graphic solution
with different types of weaponry
from each war.
Music Packaging
Promotion
Australian singer-songwriter
and film composer,
Monique DiMattina, released
the album ‘Senses,’ containing
quiet lyricism, gentle waltzes,
and atmospheric compositions.
Sketches of her playing at the
11th Street Bar in New York City
were turned into a new package
design for her album. This look
and feel was extended to her
follow up album, ‘Sun Signs,’ to
maintain a unique visual brand
for her series.
Graphic Novel (128 pages)
Published by Archaia
Complexity Map Illustrations
Book Title Logotype
Promotional Poster
Promotional Mini-Comic
This graphic novel is a grounded,
science fiction thriller by
Charles Soule (Swamp Thing,
Superman/Wonder Woman,
She Hulk, Twenty-Seven,
Strongman) and published by
Archaia. Original artwork
was created for the story’s
complexity maps, as well
as the book title design
and promotional posters.
A special section on the
creative process for these
custom maps was featured
as a chapter within the book.
The book's narrative follows
a young graduate student
who discovers that his
aging professor has been
saving New York City from
collapse by a series of
“adjustments,” à la the
Butterfly Effect, only to be
informed that he must be
the one to take over
keeping the city alive.
17 x 11 inches, ink on paper
11 x 17 inches, ink on paper, digital color
11 x 17 inches, ink on paper, digital color and composite
17 x 44 inches, ink on paper, four-panel composite (detail)
11 x 8.5 inches, ink on paper
Animated Film Illustrations
Illustrated Infographics
Original watercolor illustrations
were created to represent
geographic locations and
informational icons for the
live action documentary film,
Close to the Fire. The film
utilizes a journalistic approach
of on-location interviews,
historical statistics, and
animations, to explore different
types of inequality on three
continents—housing inequality
in the Pomo Nation of Northern
California, food inequality in
Johannesburg, and farming and
ecological inequality in the
mangroves of Bangladesh.
Illustrations were also used for
interstitial transitions and
credit sequences.
Strongman Volume 2:
Oaxaca Tapout
Published by SLG Comics
Graphic Novel (148 pages)
Promotional Poster
For this graphic novel project,
primary inking was completed on
the book's interior pages, working
with original pencil art from
artist, Allen Gladfelter. Illustration
of an original poster for promoting
the book at various events and
comic conventions was also done.
The book is the second volume
of the ‘Strongman’ graphic novel
series by Charles Soule (She Hulk,
Superman/Wonder Woman,
Swamp Thing, Strange Attractors)
published by SLG Comics.
The protagonist, El Tigre, once
one of the most famous wrestlers
in Mexico, has deteriorated
from a lifestyle of alcohol and
debauchery. In Volume 2,
he returns to his native Mexico
to clean up the local crime
and corruption—and in the
process, himself.
El Tigre and The Tiger
Graphic Short Story
(4.25 x 5.5 inches)
The most recent installment
from the 'Strongman' series
written by Charles Soule.
Artwork and lettering were
created for this unique graphic
book that folds out, as the
story itself unfolds—eventually
folding out to an 11 x 17 inch
poster. The story takes El Tigre
to the beaches of Coney
Island where he finds himself
battling a Tiger shark.
Brush and ink on paper
Children's Book Series (24 pages)
Original illustrations and
layout design was created for
This is me!, the first book in
a series to be distributed
among New York City hospitals
to educate parents raising
children with hemangiomas
(a benign tumor consisting
chiefly of dilated or newly-formed
blood vessels). This 24-page
book is intended for parents
reading to infants and toddlers.
Illustrations were created
by hand, using graphite
and watercolor. The characters
in this book were rendered in
black and white (except for the
hemangioma) without complex
backgrounds for a simplified and
age-appropriate narrative.
Additional artwork and design
was created for This is me too!,
the second book in the series,
intended for parents with children
three years of age and older.
The illustrations for this book
were created in full-color with
detailed contextual backgrounds.
The creative process of the
visual artist closely mirrors that
of the musician. Both adhere
to similar laws of rhythm,
harmony, tone and composition—
while utilizing these elements
to create original and evocative
stories through a particular
medium. Just as the musician
forms a score through the
arrangement of notes, melodies
and silence, the visual artist
composes a piece with the use
of form, color and negative space.
This ongoing series of
contemporary portraits of jazz
and blues musicians is
embedded with the heroic
and tragic texture of the lives
they lived and each portrait
is rendered in the medium
and style that best captures the
personality of each subject.
Digital Illustration
Poster Design
Promotional graphics were
created for the 1st Annual
NYC Good Beer Month Local
Grill-Off event held at
Jimmy's No. 43 Tavern in
New York City. An original
illustration of the New York
skyline was created with
a beer bottle and spatula
replacing the iconic Chrysler
building and the Empire
State building.