
Why Helvetica Neue Still Wins at Scale
A typeface deep-dive: optical compensation, tracking at 96px, and why the alternatives fail in the field.

Meridian Fragrance
Meridian Parfums
2025

Forma Identity System
Forma Architecture
2025

Nocturne Watches
Nocturne SA
2024

Voss Interiors
Voss Design Group
2024

Lumen Skincare Launch
Lumen Beauté
2024

Aeris Running
Aeris Athletic
2023

A typeface deep-dive: optical compensation, tracking at 96px, and why the alternatives fail in the field.

From client brief to OOH execution — every decision, every rejection, every pivot.

The rejected color directions and what the client responses taught me about perception.

A working argument against presenting mood boards to clients before the concept is locked.

How contemporary art directors break the grid intentionally — and why the grid must exist first.

What clients say, what they mean, and how to align before the first concept is drawn.
42 pages. Brief, strategy, rejected concepts, final execution, and the client conversation that changed everything. The full process — nothing redacted.
Work that has no client. No deadline. No brief but curiosity. The rougher edges are intentional.

Light Painting Studies 01–09
Never client-facing. Just me and a flashlight at 2am.

Glitch Portraits (Unreleased)
Started as a test for a pitch. Too weird for the client. Keeping it.

Cyanotype Archive
Analog process. No undo. The whole point.

Motion Studies, Series II
Shot in a parking garage at midnight. The security guard was confused.

Aberration Still Life
What happens when the color channels argue.

Ink in Water (Ongoing)
No brief. No client. No deadline. Just a tank of water.
Once a month: one project, dissected from brief to final delivery. The decisions that worked. The ones that didn't. The client conversation nobody writes about. No newsletter filler. Just the work.