Acrylic on handmade paper. Currently on view at Up Front Art Space, 127 Portage Trail, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

This piece is an attempt to deconstruct and decontextualize the color pink.

Pink is so closely associated with femininity that we’ve completely separated it from what it actually is: a shade of red.

Pinkphobia invites us to ask ourselves; why are we, as a society, scared of the color pink?

Can we re-integrate this color as a part of the spectrum of our human experience?

Can we neutralize the brand of femininity, and that which we attribute to the feminine experience?

This campaign for the Cleveland International Film Festival is based on the tagline “See For Yourself.”

The color scheme is that of the three basic eye colors. The elongated triangular shapes refer to the light from a projector in a movie theater. I designed a poster, app, and vehicle wrap, to promote the Film Festival on various platforms.

 

This is a logo I created for Monongahela Reeds, which is a company that specializes in making quality reeds for oboe and English horn.

This is a very special company that is comprised of both human oboe and oboe reed experts, and animal “reed elves”.

The name of this company’s mascot is “Gray Baby,” an adorable oboe kitty who went from road-rescue to oboe logo superstar. Read more about Gray Baby here:

http://monongahelareeds.weebly.com/about-us.html