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August 02, 2007

Branch Monoline

Monoline typeface design, with some minimalist Art Deco hints, and a separate baseline for capitals and lowercase characters.

Initially, I only drew the characters I needed to make a business card and letterhead for a friend. I originally based the design off of a typeface employed on the letterhead of a West Village bar called Little Branch, but I was missing most of the character set, and I had to add plenty of embellishments. I enjoyed the process so much that I finished out the entire character set, and I am in the process of creating a suite of weights.

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Gusset

Decorative typeface design, insprired by the harshly angular shapes seen in the construction of truss bridges.

Gusset is free to download:


Gusset has been released under an Open Source license, such that its content can be freely modified and distributed, with some restrictions. See the enclosed license file for details.

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June 27, 2007

Hair Alphabet

Alphabet constructed from forms taken from high-contrast images of human hair. Most of the linear elements were had by parting the hair on a specific angle; some of the more extreme curves necessitated braiding.

I collaborated with Jesse Shamus Lynch, Leslie Wang, and Veronica Pepe for this project.

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Icon Set for RPI Arts

Icon set developed at RPI for use throughout the Arts departments' identity collateral.

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LDG Typeface

Type design used during the rebranding of the Liquid Design Group (now defunct).

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