Fragment of a Map of the Universe
2015
Metaphorical map of all my MFA projects, created for my thesis book.
 Fragment of a Map of the Universe |
Typeface designer, Commercial Type, New York
M.F.A., graphic design, Yale School of Art (2015)
A.B. cum laude, physics, Amherst College (2009)
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Site design and programming by Tim Ripper
Metaphorical map of all my MFA projects, created for my thesis book.
Fragment of a Map of the Universe |
Type experiments inspired by these recordings of vintage Bell phone system sounds, attempting to formally capture the network’s complexity and rich sources of signal interference.
 Structure 1 |
 In the old network, you were never really alone |
 Interfering oppositions |
 Structure 2 |
Unofficial poster for a lecture on art and ophthalmology at the Yale School of Medicine.
 With an Artistic Vision |
Poster for Ben Fry’s talk at Yale.
 Ben Fry at Yale |
Collaborative networked music-performance software running on a Node server. Video recorded during an in-class test in April 2014.
Illustrations imagining the interiors of three publicly inaccessible New Haven locations—a Yale secret society tomb, a data center, and an abandoned power plant. I envisioned each building as consisting of two simultaneous, opposing states: the fantastic, surreal universe that I wished it contained, and the more probable case in which the mystery shrouding the site dissolves into a boring reality.
 Bull and Scones (detail) |
 Binaries posters (Bull and Scones, AT&NSA Data Center, English Stationary) |
 English Stationary (detail) |
 AT&NSA Data Center (detail) |