This is a personal art project that I designed to be usable as my own real week planner. It includes a few features I find useful, such as one week per spread, blank pages with grids, more than one ribbon, and a binding that opens relatively flat.

Because planners require large amounts of repetitive information that changes from year to year, there is a very real possibility for error. To reduce this risk, I created a custom Perl script to convert date data into InDesign XML, then flowed the XML into an InDesign layout. To reduce the amount of data that needs to be transcribed, I coded the Perl script to either pull special dates from reliable sources, or calculate special dates that can be calculated.

I chose Alegreya because it is a superfamily that includes both serif and sans serif. It also includes small caps, which I find useful.

This is an ongoing project.

This is the first in a series of experiments to use different techniques to create designs based on a short story called The Magic Fish. My goal for this particular experimnent was to create a booklet that feels like a regular novel that can be handmade and distributed at zine fairs or anime conventions.

The story itself, which illustrates the difference between physical objects and digital information, was written by artist Ryan Kelln.

These diagrams were produced for a research project to illustrate concepts in cognitive neuroscience. Because the primary audience would be engineering students, I chose to borrow from a style of engineering diagram called the unified modelling language (UML).

Instead of using existing illustrations as reference, I read the primary literature to understood the concepts, then drew original diagrams to illustrate what I understood. My goal was to avoid copying existing styles and at the same time make sure that things that confused me would not confuse other learners.