My Design Philosophy
Defining Purpose: I begin projects with guiding the essential questions: what is the why? What medium best archives the goal? And what is the piece doing? I often start my projects with mind-mapping find new ideas to make sure all perspectives are considered.
Research: Aesthetics become choreography that demands work. When designing a new project, I focus first on the big picture concept and then find which tools are necessary for the task. When doing work for others, I ask myself, “what are they trying to communicate?” “What are the core elements of their ideas?” “What is their history?”
Communication and Collaboration: I am always in constant collaboration with my friends, mentors, and elders. When doing work for others, I budget in time to implement design feedback to build a mutual working relationship. My philosophy design philosophy centers, compromise, storytelling, and listening.
Design: I often draft on paper and then transition to the computer. Design means making multiple rough drafts, exploring a variety of ways to tell a story, and centering clear visual communication.
Code Switch
Inspired by the bicolor colored pencils, this vector illustration conveys my code-switching experience between both sides of my identity.
Call Me When
Digital Illustration, 2019
Album Art
Why These Coyotes
Dance Around the Fire, 2017
Quest EP, 2017
45, 2018
Album Videos
Maggie Coco
I was commissioned to make a short video accompanying Coco’s songs in her new album. Coco wanted subtitle text for each video. These videos were produced in 2019. I have gained more technical proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and am now able to make them more precise images, and I have a better understanding of typefaces. There are many aspects of this project I would change to sharpen the images and choose typefaces with greater clarity. This is one of the first digital drawing projects I completed. Through this project, I learned how to compromise and communicate with a client working with a minimal budget.
