Darker Than Night: Film Noir From The Depression To The Present Day is a 9" x 11" handmade 82 page book that looks at the sub-genre of film noir and how history affected its creation, subject matter, and eventual demise. The book features high resolution film stills and historical images, including full bleed stills and photos.
The front cover features a full bleed still of Orson Wells in the 1949 film The Third Man.
The table of contents, as well as all chapter landings, feature full bleed imagery in the background. In this case, the image is a still from the 1950 classic, Sunset Boulevard.
Every section of the book uses this strip format to show the contents of each chapter. Since the table of contents for the book itself shows the sections, I decided to use the historical photos that are used as backgrounds for each section as the images, with a semi-transparent red text over each image displaying the page number.
For each section, the left page gives some historical background for the time period, as well as what was going on in film noir. The body copy is in Courier to emulate a film script.
On the right are strips showing what films are focused on within the section, with the year over the film still. The colors for each year are pulled from the posters for each film.
Each film, with the exception of Citizen Kane, was given a spread. Every spread gives the reader basic information about the film, such as the director and cast, and when applicable, the academy awards the films were nominated for and/or won.
This page from the Sunset Boulevard spread features a photo collage of three stills all from the same scene at the end of the film. The stills were arranged in a way to show progression throughout the scene from top to bottom.
At the end of each section is a timeline showing when the films were released on the top and important historical events on the bottom. The timeline itself was made to look like a strip of silver nitrate film.
The final section of the book covers neo-noir films, which are films that meet the criteria to be called noir, but were created after the golden age of film noir ended. This is the only section in the book to use full color stills to show the change in technology of film over time.
The back cover features a still of Robert Mitchum in the film The Night of the Hunter, along with a paragraph about film noir.
GlobalFit is a health and wellness technology company based in Philadelphia, PA. During my time at GlobalFit, I worked on marketing for national and regional gym chains sent to hundreds of thousands of members, helped with an award winning engagement campaign, and redesigned the company's website.
During my time at GlobalFit, we ran two year-long engagement campaigns that sent original content to members weekly. This asset is from the 2016 My Wellness Road Trip campaign, which won a GDUSA Health + Wellness design award.
Topics changed weekly throughout the My Wellness Road Trip campaign, with each quarter having a different overall theme. Usually, the time of year and holidays would influence the content, such as in this asset about healthy fall recipes.
The 2017 Rock Star Fit Pro Tour campaign used written and video content created by personal trainers, with each trainer getting a month of the "tour". Throughout the campaign we tried to give the written assets distinct visual identities in order to make it seem like they came from different sources.
Since the assets typically contained information like recipes or workout regimens, they were designed to be printable on standard 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper. Longer assets like this were typically split into 2 or more pages.
During my time at GlobalFit, the largest project I undertook was a complete redesign of the company's interstitial homepage.
The project was a collaborative effort among the marketing team, where I handled the overall look and feel of the pages while my co-worker created the animations on the page.
This is work from my six month co-op with Philadelphia’s Major League Soccer team, the Philadelphia Union. Aside from a roster card cover promoting Star Wars night and a poster given away at the end of the season, all of the work fits within a vintage looking branding system the team adopted for their 5th season.
Logo design and brand identity for a fictional business consultancy firm. Four logos were created for the company: A pictorial logo, a letterform logo, an abstract logo, and a combination logo (pictorial and typographical). Focusing on the combination logo, I adapted it into a branding system that includes business cards, letterheads, envelopes, and a promotional mousepad.
Inspired by a scene early in the film, this 18 x 24 poster features a heavily edited photo of a hamburger and drink lying in a pool of ketchup.
A standard size book cover for William Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies. The cover features a photo collage that wraps from front to back featuring the tail end of a plane on the beach of an island. The entire cover is in grayscale, except for the word ‘Flies’, which is in a dark red to highlight the ominous nature of the novel.
A standard size book cover for Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. The cover is entirely in grayscale to showcase that good and evil are hard to distinguish within the book. The front features photography of tree bark against a circuit board to highlight the struggle between the old gods and the new gods.