The World Education website needed refreshing, so I came up with two concepts for a fun and educational look and feel that was grounded upon clean lines and structure. For each concept I created one supporting page for stories and text-based content. The new website will feature social media links and story feeds. The site design will encompass all international divisions with a call to action to donate and take courses.

I designed these web banners to feature new and important JSI projects on their website's homepage. These are a few of my recent favorites.

This book preserves recipes from my own history. Some were passed down from relatives, and I hope that they may be passed down to future generations. I love food and I see it as form of love. I’d like to honor those people in my life who have given a lot to me and who have cooked for me over the years.
This cook book was created in Gene Pawlowski’s book-making class at Cleveland Institute of Art. Each title and illustration is hand-drawn and each page is hand-torn. The dividers are sewn in and printed on vellum. The cover features either a hardcover bound in yellow fabric or an illustration, each with a di-cut window.
I hope that this collection can provide delicious meals that instantly make you feel at home. Maybe they can even form the basis of new traditions.

The recently-founded Rhode Island Prevention Resource Center (RIPRC) is a centralized training and technical assistance (TTA) resource for Rhode Island substance abuse prevention providers. The Center fosters state and local collaboration to prevent substance abuse and other risk-taking behaviors.

I was asked to develop an identity, branding system, and logo for use on their website, annuals and printed materials, inter-company templates, and promotional postcards.

In my research, I focused on creating a human, welcoming, and homey feeling. I hoped to capture a Rhode Island-specific look without using the cliche of nautical imagery. The final color pallette was inspired by New England fall leaves, but dimmed down for the healthcare environment. Rounded edges also lend a softer look, and the leaf icon is repeated throughout the materials.

This book of vintage style travel tags is a catalogue of the members of my class. To illustrate each classmate, I asked them to ll out a survey. The icons I produced were items that relate to each person, and the colors correspond with their favorite color.

This is a current project of mine that I'm very excited to be working on!

White Buffalo Woman, a soulful explosion of homegrown rock-and-roll weaves magic into every note of their forthcoming EP. Their catchy impassioned music transports you to a gritty 60s dance hall. Youth and vigor and rough rock assertion nod at the modern soul revival of such bands as the Alabama Shakes and Mayer Hawthorne.

I'm waiting with baited breath to get my hands on a freshly pressed copy of the self-titled EP. The new (old) sound of the few songs I've heard are auditory bliss. I encourage anyone reading this to jump on the bandwagon early and give find a copy soon - before they become the next big thing of 2013. I'm honored to be working with these guys.

- AW

This family of icons is both a study of common architecture and of the typeface Helvetica. Each of the six icons consists only of pieces of Helvetica letterforms, cut at 90° angles. The family aims to illustrate distinct types of buildings in the clearest, simplest possible way. Each icon began as a sketch, which was then translated into shapes created by the letterforms. I hoped to show the icons in a real-world environment, so I created sign-like visuals to accompany them. Last, I applied them to photographs of
real-world architecture.

The first of these posters gives a subtly humorous guide to student typographers in the digital age. I hand-drew a computer circuit board and used it in a decorative, almost-baroque manner to make reference to the etiquette books of the past.
The following histories reflect the time and usage of the typeface involved.

This pop-up book features four spreads that present information about the dangers of factory farming. I used different pop-up techniques for unusual dimensions, allowing the information to literally POP off of the pages. Some of my techniques were triangle folds, combinations, layered pop-ups, cross-overs, and additive pop-ups.

I discovered that I absorb many words every day without noticing, whether from friends or strangers or corporations. My environment implants words into my mind. Context and individual thought processes shape my interpretations. I captured words - information that I encounter constantly - and transformed them into visual ideas. These words adopted a poetic light and took on greater meaning when removed from their original setting.
For two weeks I collected phrases and sentences. Friends contributed some in daily conversation while strangers unwittingly shared a few through overheard discourse. None were planned; none were asked for. I picked words that felt at least intriguing, or at most, bafflingly contradictory. “Today is not a day;” “Place is more than scenery;” “It's raining in my heart,”- some of these phrases contain personal meaning while others reveal a glimpse of someone else's life. I typed the chosen words onto strips of paper, created a three-dimensional piece, placed candles inside, and watched as their meanings evolved.

These two families include icons that work well as a group, but can also be used alone.
The turntable icons were created after a lot of research into the styles and makes of vintage record players. For consistency, many of the elements are repeated, and objects fit to specific sizes. Some of the more organic features such as the speakers are hand-drawn. This collection is a history of a specific object as well as a homage to the technology of the past.
The second set of icons were created from the letterform of a lowercase "a" in Helvetica. This letter represents my name and could be used as a personal logo. Each of the forms evolves from the next and much attention is paid to the relationships of positive and negative space.