As a personal project, after taking a few textile design classes in the Fibers Department at SCAD, I became heavily interested in patterns and pattern design. The following collection showcases my own illustrations in small, fun patterns.

In Typographic Practice in graduate school we were assigned a quarter long project of designing as a character of our choosing. I chose Sal Paradise from one of my favorite novels, On the Road by Jack Kerouac. The novel takes place in 1949, as Sal travels across the country from New York City to San Francisco, and back, three different times, chronicling his experiences along the way and the people he meets. Designing as Sal was a challenge, but one that I ended up loving. Over the course of the quarter I gathered inspiration from 1940’s signage, the many covers of the book, Americana-style architecture, and even whiskey bottles and cigarette packages. I tried to cultivate a feeling of loneliness in my work, a feeling that Sal knew well. I created images that explored empty streets, small town America, and those somewhat alien moments that you only feel while alone on the open road. Using a transfer pen for the majority of my images, I transferred Sal’s own words on contrived images of America and American icons. I also created images by placing type in a bottle of whiskey, and creating cigarettes made of Sal’s words. In bringing all our individual projects together I compiled a newspaper, and later a set of postcards, that is representative of not only Sal’s journey across America, but of 1949 and the isolation and loneliness of wandering across the country, only to run right into yourself.