Process view of design work with vector drafts, artboards, and layered image-making.

My Work

Selected sketches, design systems, typography, interfaces, photographic series, and composited image-making, with context for why and how each project was created.

Finished vector illustration of a building facade. — CMD+C Recruitment Poster, digital, 2024

Featured project · 2026

Modulate

An image is only the beginning.

A photographic experience that turns an image into something to shape, listen to, and perform.

Explore the project Music: “Meditation Impromptu 01” by Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0 (excerpt).

My Design: From sketch to finished system.

Poster design, illustration, conference graphics

United Conference 2025

Software: Procreate and Illustrator

I was asked to help design a poster for the 2025 conference. The project shows my process, beginning with sketching, then building atmosphere and texture in the scene, and finally thinking through the typographic choices.

Initial landscape sketch for the United Conference 2025 poster.

Menu system, restaurant branding

Corktown Pizza Company

Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

A freelance project for a Petoskey, Michigan restaurant, developed as the business opened in 2023 and needed branded menu materials. The work extends the Corktown identity into a cover and interior drink menu system.

Identity, label system, website, social media

Gitche Gumee Ciderworks

Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, WordPress

A visual system for a Michigan-based ciderworks, spanning product labels, a website, social media presence, and branded launch materials.

Course website, student work archive

HU Visual Website

Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, WordPress, HTML, CSS

A responsive site built to showcase student work and make Michigan Tech Humanities digital media courses visible to prospective students. The project paired poster-driven outreach with desktop and mobile layouts used beyond the classroom.

Sketch for the laptop and dog interior scene.

Finished vector illustration of working on a laptop beside a dog.

Sketch for the desktop workstation interior scene.

Finished vector illustration of a desktop workstation with an Illustrator file open.

Sketch for the iPad in bed interior scene.

Finished vector illustration of looking at an iPad from bed.

Finished vector illustration of preparing food in a kitchen.

Vector illustration, process studies

Vector Interior Studies

Software: Procreate, Illustrator

A series of first-person interior scenes, documenting daily life while teaching remotely during the pandemic. The project began as Procreate sketches and moved into Illustrator, turning daily domestic repetition into structured vector compositions.

Panoramic digital illustration of a city, brain, technological infrastructure, mountains, and roots.

Vertical digital illustration of a hand reaching toward a DNA form, cables, satellite, moon, and mountains.

Landscape digital illustration of a human head, mountains, trees, smoke, and wind turbines.

Digital illustration series, 2019 faculty show

Self and Nature

Software: Procreate

A 2019 faculty-show series exploring the uneasy space between the human body, nature, and technology. The pieces leave that relationship open, asking whether technology separates us from nature, extends us, or keeps us somewhere in between.

Michigan Tech Digital Imaging HU2633 recruitment poster.

Michigan Tech Graphic and Information Design HU2645 recruitment poster.

NMU AIGA first meeting recruitment poster.

Course advertising, student club recruitment

Recruitment Posters

Software: Illustrator, Photoshop

A set of posters made to bring students into design spaces: Michigan Tech digital media courses and NMU's student graphic design club, which later became CMD+C. The work uses visual hooks, direct calls to action, and campus-specific landmarks.

Band poster system, 2021-2026

Outlaw'd Poster Series

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator

A long-running poster series for the band Outlaw'd, built around annual show schedules, band photography, weathered textures, western typography, and composited atmosphere. The work has evolved year to year while keeping the band's rough-edged country identity recognizable.

Outlaw'd 2026 Summer Run poster with a stage-front composition, band image, show dates, and western signage.

My Photography: From image to constructed scene.

Digital photomanipulation, 2023

Fragmentation

Tools: Mirrorless camera, Photoshop, textural scans

Shown at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Tech, Fragmentation uses recursive phone-screen portraits to explore self-representation, digital identity, and the blur between physical and digital experience.

Fragmentation Untitled 1, a digital photomanipulation using recursive phone-screen self-portrait imagery and torn paper textures.

Landscape, atmosphere, and place

Outdoor Photography

Tools: DSLR, mirrorless camera, DJI drone, Photoshop, Lightroom

A selection of outdoor images centered on atmosphere, color, framing, and the tension between natural systems and human-made structures. The work moves between shoreline, weather, aerial views, and abandoned places where the landscape begins to reclaim the built environment.

Little Presque shoreline at sunset with warm light across the beach, rocks, and water.

Aerial view of a red lighthouse on a rocky point surrounded by blue water.

Dark clouds moving across a warm orange and purple sunset sky.

Rusting industrial dredge structure surrounded by snow under a heavy gray sky.

Vertical aerial view of a large ship beside an industrial dock in dark green water.

Abandoned stone house surrounded by tall grass, trees, and evening light.

Old tractor surrounded by tall grass and trees beneath bright clouds.

Blue storm waves breaking against rocks with a lighthouse in the distance.

Sunset over water and grass with trees in silhouette and a small lighthouse in the distance.

Aerial view of Little Presque island surrounded by green and blue water.

Aerial view of a harbor and rocky shoreline with a red lighthouse and blue water.

Fall trees framing a blue lift bridge and river below.

View from rocky cliffs over blue water, shoreline trees, and floating ice.

Freelance photography, current

Wedding Photography

Tools: DSLR and mirrorless camera, Photoshop, Lightroom

I photograph weddings as human stories shaped by setting. The gesture matters, but so does the room, weather, architecture, and light that frame the moment.

A couple standing on rocky shoreline cliffs with Lake Superior and large clouds behind them.

A bride looking into a hand mirror while getting ready.

A wedding party standing with umbrellas on a forest road in autumn.

A wedding party gathered on a boat with water and large clouds behind them.

A couple kissing during an outdoor ceremony near a lake.

A wedding party running together on a rooftop with hills in the background.

A close view of wedding rings and hands in black and white.

A groom walking through outdoor wooden doors with a wedding setting behind him.

A groom walking outdoors with an officiant between wooden doors and framed family photographs.

A woman looking into a mirror while getting ready.

A groom in a white suit standing on a beach with a violinist in the background.

A smiling couple photographed beneath bright red and gold lights.

A groom and groomsmen posing in black and white with orange shoes.

Freelance photography, current

Drag Show Photography

Tools: DSLR and mirrorless camera, Photoshop, Lightroom

For the last decade, I have photographed drag shows as live performance, community, and atmosphere. The work moves between stage action, backstage preparation, and the energy of the room.

A drag performer reaches toward the crowd under magenta stage light.

Drag performers pose on stage under blue and pink light while another person photographs them.

A drag performer applies makeup in a warm backstage mirror scene.

A drag performer in a blue costume photographed from a low angle under stage lights.

A group of performers points toward the audience under warm yellow stage light.

A drag performer stands in smoke beneath a bright overhead stage light.

A drag performer in feathered stagewear receives a tip from an audience member.

A drag performer in a colorful costume performs against projected stage light.

Composite photography

Photobashing

Tools: DSLR, mirrorless camera, DJI drone, Photoshop

Composite image work built from DSLR, mirrorless, and DJI drone captures, then shaped through Photoshop masking, layering, color, atmosphere, and photo manipulation.

A composite portrait split open by flame, with a second face formed inside the fire.

A red holographic figure holding a glowing sword in a dim classroom.

A fiery baseball player emerging from a phone while a baseball streaks through a dark scene.

A figure standing on rocks by water, pulling a cloud into a long shape overhead.

A figure on a mountain ridge raises a wand toward a glowing symbol in smoky light.

A composite aerial scene where a bridge and island appear suspended above a waterfall edge.