I’m a graphic designer and letterpress printer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Originally from Toronto, Ontario I currently reside in the Midwest of the United States. My inexorable fascination with three-dimensional structures often drives my work toward more tactile media: book making, relief printing, and creating unique packaging. That is not to say I don’t place an equal emphasis on typography and concept. If you have a design project in mind, I'm always taking on freelance projects.

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Design Experience

2010 Teaching Assistant / Residential Counselor
Served as a graphic design teacher’s aid for the MICA summer precollege program. Facilitated educational trips to museums in New York, Baltimore and Washington DC. Acted as a mentor in class, a supervisor around the student dorms, ran a book making seminar and assisted extracurricular events.

2009 B Creative Group, Intern
An identity, publication and web designer for this Baltimore design studio. The summer long experience required logo making, photo editing, web design and typographic compositions for various printed materials.

2009 Dellon Design, Intern
Apprentice for Baltimore native Glenn Dellon at his office in the Spring. Poster design, press checks, brand development, collateral and publication design, were the focus of this internship. In return Glenn elaborated on the practice of running an independent business. The experience included networking with local competition, visiting an industrial sign company, a printing press and The Walters Museum display workshop.

2008 Simantel, Intern
A full time, summer position in the creative department of this Illinois based design agency. The responsibilities included designing environmental displays, signage, posters, annual reports, 3D renderings, collateral, website maps and flash animations.

2008–10 Freelance Clients
05.09–08.09 Illustrated, designed and printed safe meeting location maps for the MICA Health & Safety Department.
03.08 Commissioned illustrations for Infinite Biomedical Technologies, a Baltimore based medical device developer.

School Experience

2009–10 Residential Advisor
On campus leader, safety enforcer, extracurricular programmer and peer counselor. Duties included patrolling residential buildings, executing campus wide events—both educational and fun, moving students in and out of the dorms, diffusing any roommate altercations and upholding community standards for a creative, productive and comfortable living experience.

2008–2009 Peer Career Advisor
A student liaison for professional development, providing resources and insight into various professional outlets. Assisted interdepartmental communication for campus wide programs. Facilitated events including major café: a school wide function for freshmen choosing majors, concentrations and minors. Gave presentations to peers about personal internship successes and how set up a successful shop on etsy.

2008–2009 Recreational Program Manager
Responsible for thinking up and executing exciting recreational school programs for MICA students. Some of these events were: trips to Six Flags, Oriole baseball games, rock climbing, ice skating in the Washington DC sculpture garden, and a visit to Charm City Cakes. Other duties included planning and running both the annual Halloween party and Last Blast celebration. Acted along side other student leaders during what has to be the best orientation in the continental United States.