Milkcrate Creative Space

The Milkcrate Creative Space is a multi-purpose facility managed by Limitless Design & PainfulPleasures. It serves as a premier venue for art exhibitions, panel discussions, lectures, seminars, classes, private events, and open houses. The Milkcrate name and graphical mark for this venue symbolize an approachable empty container ready to be utilized in many different ways. A monospaced sans serif font was used to play in the youthfulness and adaptability of the venue, with a grey and red color scheme to elicit energy and excitement.

Navigating the Binary

My thesis document features three sections: The Credo which illustrates my personal journey as a designer, a manifesto which discusses the last century of design and the lessons we should heed in our technological age, and finally a philosophy which defines successful design through empathy, authenticity, and intent.

Limitless Website

Limitless is the in-house design team at PainfulPleasures. Limitless believes in endless possibilities to express identity, they offer design and print services to individuals, artists, businesses, and brands. The website was designed to showcase the work and direction of the Limitless team to internal and external patrons. The color pallet was chosen to create a welcoming, creative, and professional atmosphere. A clear site structure makes for easy navigation.

Gradient Shirts

Conveying emotions through pictorial representation, this aesthetic allows the viewer’s intuition to imbue the essence of our organic spaces and emphasize the beauty in our natural world.

Ascension Needles

Ascension Needles are a brand of premium tattoo needles. The project was to create a branding for the needles that would make it stand out from the competition and work across packaging, and marketing materials. The logo contains an abstracted tattoo needle wrapped in a pair of wings, defining the product and referencing its elite status. The logo is paired with a sharp, edge, and angled typeface to further emphasize these brand characteristics.

REV 23 T- Shirt

T-shirt design used to promote a company which produces software for piercing and tattoo parlors. These shirts use the iconic shape of the logos’ mark in combination with a mantra that tattoo, and piercing professionals wear proudly.

APOF

A Pound of Flesh solved the problem of how to practice tattoo without subjecting friends and family to beginner talent. APOF offers a variety of practice skins in both flat and lifelike shapes. The Branding for APOF reflects the macabre nature of this product: dark colors, body parts, and a Frankenstein vibe. An old English typeface was paired with a more legible sans serif to create an old-world feel without sacrificing legibility. These designs were used in magazine and digital and print campaigns.

Cono Sur

Cono Sur is a line of appearing featuring the artwork of tattoo artists from the tip of Latin America. This project called for the design of a logo to be used on apparel tags. The logo and associated branding features line work and colors commonly associated with the region.

Derma Art

The launch of Derma art makes tattoo stencils simpler and more variable through the ability to print gradation. The aesthetic borrows from the purple color of the Gentian violet ink and simple fingerprint-like patterns reflect both the stencil nature of the product and its human element.

Recovery Branding

Recovery Aftercare began as a mission to ensure that body modification could receive gentle, all-natural, healthy treatment. Recovery’s line of products is sustainable, environmentally friendly, vegan-friendly, and organic. Recovery has developed an extensive family of products for a range of uses.

The packaging of the recovery line consisted of over 20 products and

corresponding POPs or displays. To best organize the product line, a well-defined product architecture was created so customers could easily understand the different family of products. The organization also gave customers an understanding that Recovery carried a trusted product for all of their needs. Each line features the Recovery “R” front and center, building brand consistency across retail locations.