Tools
Likely a byproduct of my skateboarding days and growing up with a jack of all trades dad, I tend to build things. (Scrappily build things.)
As kids we built makeshift ramps out of whatever we could get our hands on. Trash cans. Actual trash. Cardboard. Stolen cinderblocks. Whatever.
And in high school my dad eventually taught me how to weld. Which is to say that at a young age I learned how to improvise. More so, I learned how to learn.
Now I find myself building makeshift tools and resources to aid in my design process which, in turn, has helped me become a better communicator when I am out of my depth.
Type Foundry Directory
In 2018 I was fed up with my bookmarking system for type foundries. I wanted a database I could reference that included the information I like to know when browsing foundries and their fonts so I created the Type Foundry Directory.
PlexReport
Originally built during the production process of Malice, a font by Scott Biersack, I created PlexReport, a Glyphs App plugin to report if glyph widths match across the masters. This comes in handy when working on multiplex fonts where characters are the same width across weights but each individual character is spaced proportionally.
Vesselli
While working on the packaging for a bottle of hot sauce, I wrote a Python script to experiment with the bottle’s dimensions while tracking the estimated volume. This let us quickly iterate on the design early in the process before a production team was in place.
Dotify
An experimental tool for converting photos into abstracted dot graphics. This was initially built as a prototype during the early stages of a branding project.
2015–Present
Small selection of various in-progress typefaces.
Collection of almost every logotype I have worked on over the years.
Almost every project I have worked on or contributed to in some fashion (that I can remember).