Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I worked on graphics for The Daily Show while Trevor Noah was still host, through various guest hosts, as well as the return of Jon Stewart. I designed and animated graphics for promos, lower thirds, OOH & social.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I worked on three seasons of Ink Master (S14-16) on Paramount Network & Paramount+, where I created animation, style frames, and promo materials. We created the title sequence and all additional graphics completely in-house. In addition, for Season 16, I art directed the promo shoot on set in Vancouver for the title sequence motion graphics.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I worked on animation for the 9th season of Bar Rescue, customizing various typography and animation to promote the new season.
I created all the animation for this book trailer for ‘Hot Boy Summer’ by Joe Jiménez for MTV Books. I also created additional versions for social & OOH.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
For the launch of Digman!, an animated series starring Andy Samberg on Comedy Central, I designed & animated various digital billboards that ran across NYC for the show’s launch. To bring the still key art to life in animation, I added a subtle parallax effect to the characters, as well as glowing embers, and other soft lighting enhancements.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I oversaw several campaigns for Seinfeld marathons on Comedy Central including Presidents’ Day, New Year’s Day, & Refreshers. Each marathon required custom graphics, while still keeping a simple look that worked with the iconic Seinfeld logo. For the New Year’s Day campaign, I also worked on the motion tracking for the final ‘2023’ graphic.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I designed, art directed, & animated the graphics for Comedy Central’s Freak Week promotion, which is a week of Halloween-themed programming. Freakin’ Weekend followed a year later, and we slightly simplified the graphics by removing the smoke background and replacing the skull icon with a spooky jack-o-lantern face.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I worked on several marathons for The Office, including Presidents’ Day, That’s What 2023 Said, & Refreshers. For each promo, we customized the graphics to add unique details to enhance the theme, while still remaining true to the Comedy Central branding.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I designed and animated the graphics for Baste Week Ever, promoting a week of Thanksgiving-themed programming on Comedy Central. I also created a custom ‘sketch’ filter to treat images in Photoshop, giving a hand-drawn feel to the stock photography.
Role: Sr. Director, Motion Graphics
I worked on graphics for this Friends promo on Comedy Central. We kept the look simple to showcase the iconic Friends logo, and used a vector version of the peephole door frame as a secondary icon.
Role: Design Lead, Branding, Animation
For NBCUniversal’s Black History Month, we launched an extensive campaign across 16 different networks. Our design featured bold typography with a red, white, & blue color palette which conveys that Black history IS American history.
This project became the basis for an ongoing company-wide initiative to celebrate other heritage months (eg. Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month). The workflows and toolkits I developed were instrumental in transitioning the elements to other teams.
Role: Design Lead, Branding, Animation, Key Art
I was the lead designer on Syfy's The Great Debate, a late-night series featuring a group of nerd-tastic, nostalgia loving celebrities who go head-to-head to hash out fandom’s burning questions. I oversaw the branding, key art, on-air packaging, social and digital elements for the series.
Role: Senior Designer, Branding, Animation, Key Art
Briarpatch is a pulpy mystery drama starring Rosario Dawson — I worked on developing the overall branding for the show, in addition to overseeing elements for on-air, print, social and digital. The inspirations for the show included ‘Paris, Texas’, Twin Peaks, and Wong-Kar Wai, so I tried to capture this neo-noir feel with the retro movie inspired typography & saturated color palette.
I was also an art director on the photo shoot for the key art featuring Rosario Dawson, and I worked closely with our key art agency to oversee the final compositing & layout for the image.
Role: Senior Designer, Animation
I created the on-air toolkit for Straight Up Steve Austin season 2, in addition to the style guide and social elements. The show was a unique interview-based reality series starring WWE’s “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and featured a new celebrity guest each episode.
I designed and animated the toolkit to simplify the workflow of our editors & included scripting that would allow design elements to resize depending on length of text. I also color corrected all the video footage to match a reference from our photographer.
Role: Design Lead, Branding, Key Art, Animation, Experiential, Merch
I was the design lead for the ninth & final season of Suits. I created the branding for the entire campaign across on-air, print & social. I worked on branding & signage for a special fashion exhibit on the style of Suits (& its spin-off, Pearson) at the Paley Center in LA. I also made a lot of merch for the final season, including a custom wine bottle mailer.
Role: Design Lead, Branding, Animation, Social
For Unsolved I designed the show logo, branding, on-air graphics package, print campaign, social, digital, as well as experiential for the premiere party. The show was a true crime drama centered around the murders of Tupac and Biggie, and we wanted to create a graphics look that was both gritty and honored the iconic status of its protagonists. The show premiered with the highest ratings ever for a USA launch.
Role: Design Lead, Animation
For Colony, a sci-fi drama series about an alien occupation of Los Angeles starring Josh Holloway, I worked on the original concepts, art direction and additional animation for promos. We worked with Leroy and Clarkson to bring to life the occupied Los Angeles surrounded by a giant wall, creating an eerie, dystopian landscape for the show promos.
Role: Design Lead, Art Direction, Animation
For season 1 of Shooter, we worked with LoyalKaspar to create a target motif out of animating blurred rings. Our goal was to stay away from overused imagery about snipers such as crosshairs or guns. I created the concept for this approach, and also worked on art direction & additional animation on the delivered graphics. In addition, I art directed the motion portion of the campaign shoot with Ryan Phillippe.
Role: On Camera Talent (!), Illustration, Animation
I collaborated with USA Brandworks on this spot for Playing House and Toyota. I was filmed creating hand-painted storyboards, in addition to adding some animated elements in post-production.
Role: Logo Design, Hand-Lettering, Animation
I drew a custom hand-lettered logo for this USA Brandworks spot. I also worked on graphics within the spot, adding custom borders, film burn, camera shutter moves, and film strip transitions. The spot was originally just still images, but I was able to bring it to life using motion graphics.
Role: Logo Design, Animation
I designed the logo for this drama starring Jessica Biel, as well as graphics for the launch promos of the show.
Role: Logo Design, Animation
First Impressions was a competition game show hosted by Dana Carvey and Freddie Prinze Jr. where amateur impressionists competed to perform the best celebrity impressions.
I designed the logo for this show, and the graphics for the promos. The logo was then built out as an actual neon sign, & we used the photos of the sign in the toolkit.
Role: Design Lead, Animation
I collaborated with USA Network’s research team to give a fun motion graphics spin on some of the big statistics of the year.
Role: Design Lead, Animation
For Quote Unquote, I animated these short phrases by Thomas Edison, Oscar Wilde, and USA's own Donna Paulsen (Suits character played by Sarah Rafferty). These were created shortly after a design refresh for USA Network, and meant to highlight the personality of the new branding.