Using solvent transfer and collage of magazine imagery, this work satirizes advertised ideas about women, and defines a personal reaction to media manipulation, and to ideas of restraint and emancipation. Fantastical worlds with skies filled with diamonds, floating purses, high heels, landscapes of giant lipsticks and more emerge within each composition.

GOAL: to further develop a brand that not only mirrored the personality of an art space that has been a part of contemporary art in Dallas for over 25 years but also provided an emphasis on artists’ work.

SOLUTION: Utilizing the grid, ample white space, consistent typefaces and a variety of colors, a feeling of modern space and possibility began to emerge as a hallmark of Conduit communications. Creating a visual voice for the gallery’s mission included working with a preexisting logotype, selecting typefaces that complimented the mark, and the use of color schemes that took cues from the works and personalities of each exhibition.

GOAL: to create vibrant, energetic, one-of-a-kind performance posters for special events in both Music and Opera and to showcase performances featuring guest performers, collaborations or specially selected music. However, the posters still had to include key information required by TWU Marketing & Communication and fit under the TWU University brand.

SOLUTION: Primary use of simple illustration and bright colors to create a strong concept for each composition.

GOAL: As the insurer of such institutions as The Dallas Museum of Art, Marfa’s Chinati Foundation and art collections valued in the millions, Ard-Knox Fine Art Insurance needed a voice and identity that communicated to an affluent, educated, artistic and multi-generational audience as well as satisfied the strong, tradition of this family-owned business.

SOLUTION: The use of metallic ink, rich burgundy, thick and pearlescent paper stocks, and snappy taglines set in a classic Palatino typeface, create a smart, classic– and classy– image.

GOAL: providing design for several events including the annual Chick Flicks Film Festival and Topaz Awards Gala.

SOLUTIONS: Concepts for both designs use history for inspiration. Researching female pioneers in film and video, a concept featuring a female silhouette traveling through time in the roles of director, editor and writer emerged for Chick Flicks. Inspiration came from the Art Deco period and the early days of film for the Topaz Award and re-styling of the brand mark.