Flexible Visual System & Digital Learning Platform 

C4R Community for Rigor UPENN/NIH
VISUAL SYSTEM
visual identity, ux/ui, illustration, signage, motion, data visualization, generative tools
C4R Community for Rigor is a free, open resource to learn, practice, and promote scientific rigor. We were tasked in designing a flexible visual system and digital learning platform, centered around their beloved mascot, the Rigorous Raven.
Our challenge was to design a mascot to highlight the many moods of C4R’s users—to illustarte the full spectrum of feelings that come with practicing science. Part of delivering a new mascot involved creating Figma design toolkits, comprised of Raven body components and designs, to allow the C4R team to build their own variations.

We designed a modular typo/graphic grid system to serve as the foundation for C4R’s Visual System, allowing us to take a generative approach in both our design process and the production of assets, from UX/UI and digital assets to print collatral and signage.

We delivered an extensive Brand Guidelines System in the form of toolkits and a creative manual outlining their visual and verbal identities. Like any other system of standards, we created this document as a tool for productivity, efficiency, and consistency, serving as a guide for the development and execution of all their brand expression—from the content they create to the social comments they make, from the placement of their logo to the mood of their Raven. But: as detailed and reliable as the doc is, it’s neither comprehensive nor fixed—and it never will be. It is meant to evolve with the world C4R lives in and the community they represent.

C4R Brand Deck
Team 


Digital Textbook

The Open Brain
McGill University

VISUAL SYSTEMSvisual identity, illustration, motion, ux/ui, data visualization
The Open Brain is an open access, neuroscience learning tool (i.e. the natural evolution of a textbook), designed for The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) at McGill University.
We designed and built the first complete chapter of The Open Brain Textbook, presenting a prototype of the project’s interactive learning and reading experience. Features explored and developed for this first chapter include interactive graphics and exercises built out of a modular icon system, text annotation via highlighting and note taking, video simulations, quizzes, superscripts, footnotes and downloads.

The Open BrainTeam

Visual Systems & Editorial Design

FAO United Nations Investment Centre
VISUAL SYSTEMSvisual identity, illustration, motion, data visualization, generative tools
The FAO Investment Centre partners with countries and financing institutions to advise on and design investment strategies, policies and projects for agrifood systems. 

We have been tasked with designing Visual Identity Systems for the Centre’s Knowledge for Investment Editorial Series, Conferences, and Campaigns.  

K4I Editorial Series
Annual Review
Team


K4I Knowledge for Investment Editorial Series


Motion & Illustration

New Stand NYC
VISUAL SYSTEMSvisual identity, illustration, motion, signage, photography
New Stand is a platform that redefines the traditional newsstand concept by integrating location-based media, physical product vending machines, and convenience items with the aim to improve the employee workday experience. 

As part of New Stand’s Brand Refresh, we designed a motion and illustration design system for a collection of brand assets including signage, screens, UI, in-app content, print, and holiday campaign collateral. 

For the launch of their NYC flagship retail store at Manhattan West, we designed a unique storefront comprised of typographic banners and photographic mobiles. 

Team

Drink Stirrers Archive  

VISUAL ARCHIVES
lettering, typography, illustration, color, shape

Collection of stirrers found in a used bookstore Mexico City. Currently exploring ways to convert the collection into an interactive digital archive. 





Solo Adultos 
Magazine Archive


VISUAL ARCHIVESlettering, typography, illustration, collage, print
Collection of adult magazines collected over the years, inspiring an ongoing series of analog collages and zines. 

Wine & Liquour Label Archive

VISUAL ARCHIVE
lettering, typography, illustration

Collection of wine and liquour labels found at a market in Mexico City, presenting a beautiful array of lettering and typographic compositions. 

Holiday Card

FHNW Basel School of Design

ILLUSTRATION

La Luna 006

Wex Records
ILLUSTRATION

Annotating Fiction & Performance Reader

Critical Media Lab Basel IWL project

ILLUSTRATION
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