This design was inspired by Trevor Gardner’s Untold Voices Exhibition. Students identified someone in their community that has an untold story that runs contrary to mainstream perceptions or stereotypes of Oakland and their communities.  They conducted interviews and are producing photo essays about their subjects. I created this design using images by Thomas Hawk, Humayyun Peerzada, and myself, Ted...

Even for my own wedding, I had to do the graphic design! Our wedding had echoes of the 1930′s all throughout, and I wanted to reflect that in the visual style of the wedding programs. Nice, tasteful fonts and classic accents gave the event an extra touch of...

Envision Schools’ teacher Trevor Gardner consistently confronts rich, provocative issues in his high school humanities class. Ever since we taught together, I have been inspired by his subject matter and volunteered to design the flyers for his exhibition. The Truth Be Told Exhibition was about totalitarian power– in Russia, China, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and in the modern world. Once I heard the idea, visions of this...

Gretchen Garnett and Dancers. (2009). This site was designed for Gretchen Garnett and Dancers, an up-and-coming modern dance company in San Francisco. I wanted to convey the excitement and sensuality they bring to their movement, while remembering that this website heralds a grand new talent into the San Francisco dance scene. I photoshopped Leah Katz in a grand pose against flowing red satin textures, as if the website were a giant banner...

City Arts and Technology High School (2007). This website was designed as a central meeting place for the school community to exchange information related to the day-to-day activities of the school. I integrated several external web services to make it easy for staff to update the website without any web tinkering. It features tributary blog feeds, the school Google Calendar, Flickr photo album, and a Google Docs form. The visual design attempts...

ChefJose.com. (2007). Chef Jose Urbano’s food speaks for itself– full of fresh ingredients, unique flavors,  and gorgeous presentation. The design puts all the beautiful food forwards so we are already hungry for Jose’s food before we learn about his catering services. I used a javascript photo gallery on the front page so we can see him, his food, and the fun events he organizes. He continues to get raves for this web design, and it...