Transportation Security Administration

A series of images depicting airport security in the US. As a child with a muslim background who traveled often, this zone became a kind of metaphysical space for me. Click here for a personal narrative delving more deeply into the magic of the state after 9/11.

Day After Reading Issue N°2

An editorial design project created under the direction of Ludovic Balland during a 5-day intensive workshop. I worked in collaboration with a team of 5 to create a text and photo layouts for a newspaper featuring interviews of Valencia, California's residents discussing their experience of the news. I contributed to exploration of type layouts, photo layouts, photo editorial, and copy editing after each interview.

Softwear Branding

Branding of Softwear, fictional company that produces knitwear for devices. These products go beyond protecting the device from weather and damage by humanizing its needs. My patterns mimick traditional winter knit patterns, but created with binary code.

CalArts Jazz CD

Proposed cover for a version of the annual CalArts' Jazz CD. More images to come.

Gallery Knights!

A website for CalArts' Gallery Nights, which I have re-envisioned as Gallery Knights. This proposed event features fully-armored knights jousting in the school's main gallery.

Collisions Against a Surface

A 10.5"x14" self-curated exhibition book. It features the interviews of 4 artists who work with large inflatables. As these pieces disrupt and question the space they exist within, my typography effected the page in a similar manner

Slipper Flower Patterns

Packaging for Greek cookies and vintage-inspired jewelry. The patterns are based on floral ornaments of the Slipper Flower, which are drawn in the styles of different cultures' ornamentation.

Radar Location

This project draws a parallel between the cursor position of the web and radar. While only able to see the coordinates of ones mouse, they navigate the history of radar.

An essay examining the contemporary role of immersive spaces in the United States. Written under the supervision of Norman Klein.

Read here

YourLevel

A responsive website design and coding for a fictional startup that sells growing shoes. Access the site here.

Oklahoma Atlas

In this two-sided 24"x36" poster, I explored the past and present of Oklahoma. One side investigates the racial intricacies of the state's history, including its disappearing Native languages and the early state's all black towns. The other compares and contrasts the ecology and human geography of Oklahoma.

Simply Grapefruit Commercial

A mock commercial advertising Simply Grapefruit. Not associated with or endorsed by The Coca-Cola Company in any way. Visuals and animation by Javeria Ali. Narration by Sungwon Cho. Music by The Constructus Corporation.

PostFigure

Designs for an image-based and type-based poster set for a potential exhibition at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum. Post Figure would showcase a group of artists whose work depict their imaginings of the future human figure, as effected by environmental, technological, and political change.

bigwave systems logo

Two logod for a web app providing services to insurance brokers, insurance carriers and insurance exchanges. Designed in collaboration at Pastilla Institute of Design.

1920's Design Timeline

An 11x42.5" timeline that contains as much information of the design of the time period. I focused on the "isms" of art and politics during the 1920's, refering the layout of Hans Arp and El Lissitzsky's "Isms of Art" book.

Web Experiments

Two quick experiments playing with the media query function—what allows a website to be responsive at different sizes.
The third is an assignment to give personalities to different buttons in css. I found a list of the main "illuminati numbers", which turned out to be all of them. I picked the best.

Connotation/Denotation

Two 30x40" posters about the history of the blowdryer. One presents the information neutrally, while the other takes the function of the machine into the design idea.

Symbol Posters

This project involved developing 5 words describing an animal into a set of symbols. These symbols were then combined using various methodologies. The final posters showcased the symbols using these methodologies.

Baby Worm

While exploring the function of cursor position, I created this fun site by playing with paper.js and javascript.
You can use it here. (Compatible on Chrome and Safari on non-retina screens.)

Candlestick Telephone

I created 50 images of candlestick telephones in 50 different illustration styles. Shown here are some of my favorites.

Visual Contrast

The Visual Contrast book catalogs progressing exercises in controlling the composition of 6 visual principles: scale, space, form, direction, weight, and texture. Here are examples utlizing all 5 visual contrasts.

Personal Illustrations

Done in my free time over the last 5 years.

Label Series

A typographic progression in composing Kroger's Whipped Honey label.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

This logotype expresses the sugary substance with a hidden dark side. In this design, the idea of artificial linearity plays in contrast to dark, oozing letterforms as they conceal sections of one another.

Where I Went Wrong

Short music video for "Where I Went Wrong" by Mooseorsomething.