Twelve posters. Two years inside.

Across 2020 and 2021 I made twelve posters. Each one started with a theme that wouldn't leave me alone, fear, dreams, the dark night of the soul, the ocean, the artists whose work was holding me up, a moment in my own life that didn't have to end the way it did, and worked it through to a single image. The posters aren't decoration. They're a record of what I was thinking about as a designer and a person, and the discipline I had to build to hold those thoughts long enough to make something out of them.

The work crosses everything I do: custom display typography drawn from scratch for each piece, digital painting and illustration, photographic compositing, found imagery treated and recontextualized, my own writing, and quoted text from the people whose words I wanted to live with, Carl Jung, Eckhart Tolle, and others. Some posters carry a number from the series sequence. Others are unnumbered. All of them are dated.

Below are the twelve posters. The viewer rotates through them. Click any poster to open it at full resolution, with the writing that came with it, what the piece is about, the techniques behind it, and the reflection I held while I was making it. Use the arrow keys to move between posters in the modal, or close to return to the rotation.

The series is the place in my work where everything sits side by side. Type drawn from scratch sits next to photographs I shot or compositions I painted, sits next to my own writing about what I was trying to understand at the time. There isn't a brand brief here. There isn't a client. There's a person working through what they need to understand, with the tools they have, on the surface that holds it all in one frame.

If a brand engagement is the practice I bring to other people's questions, this series is the practice I bring to my own. Both feed each other. The breadth on display here, typography, illustration, painting, photography, writing, is what I bring back to a brief.