I recently did the branding for The Alfred and Upstairs, the restaurant and bar for the Kimberly Hotel in NYC. I created this single business card to work for both venues. I used the ornate designs hidden on the US one dollar bill as inspiration for the drawings  and made a custom wallpaper (shown on the inside of the card) from them.  Its always tricky to house two businesses on one card but I used it to my advantage in this case.

This project is really beyond my wildest dreams- it is a public art project/musical composition involving 600 musicians. I designed a logo, identity system, website, advertising and poster for “Tempelhof Broadcast.” I also art directed a very cool motion graphic animation and movie titles for the short film on the site and there are many more pieces to come. Click here to check out the site we just launched and see the little movie or the image above to see the poster and some web pages. You’ll want to read more about this project –I promise. Lisa Bielawa is an absolute genius so Im pretty proud to be working on this.

“Tempelhof Broadcast” brings together hundreds of musicians in a large-scale spatial acoustic musical celebration in and about Tempelhofer Park in Berlin, composed by American composer Lisa Bielawa.The 60-minute piece will be composed expressly for performance on the tarmac of the former Tempelhof Airport.

Here is a new project that is currently in progress. Tim Saputo, who designs with me quite often, and I are creating and entirely new brand identity for this Williamsburg restaurant. We are in the process of doing a whole new identity package as well as a menu system, coasters. matchbooks (my fave- I have a huge collection of them). Here is a sneak peek. CHECK OUT how fun the kids menu is, there is a little “hidden” french elf!

I have just sent the one of coolest projects I’ve ever done to print. I know I say this ALL the time, but this time it was magic! It’s a exhibition catalogue/book for Yvon Lambert’s artist Nick Van Woert. Nick handed me a 1960′s manual from the US Military titled “EXPLOSIVES and DEMOLITIONS” and said to use it as inspiration for the design of this book. I mean if you know me even a little you know and this was a dream for me. This is just a small taste of the book, please let me show you the book in person, and while your waiting for us to meet carefully examine Nick’s site fourteensquarefeet.com He is absolutely brilliant and I’m quite proud to have worked with him.

An invite and advertising for Haunch of Venison with another beautiful set of pictures.

I have been working for Lisa for more than 13 years and the we have explored using maps both minute and grand, and now from outer space. I created new continents and land masses by making digital collages of surveys taken by satellites by the US government. Fun!. The concept for this music is beyond cool.”Lisa Bielawa’s “Chance Encounter,” a captivating half-hour piece for singer and ensemble, is made to be heard in a public place, with the musicians arriving at different times and moving about as they perform. Bielawa and the soprano Susan Narucki created the text by transcribing remarks they’d overheard in transient spaces and culling them into a mini-drama of nostalgia (“Where are all the things that I remember?”), conflict (“Do you solve everything by crying?”), existential dread (“Nothing has happened, nothing will happen”), and the eternal search (“We need to know where the party is”). The concept is playful, yet the formal sophistication and lyrical richness of Bielawa’s music go deep.” - From THE NEW YORKER

For the Peter Saul show at Haunch of Venison I was asked to create and ad campaign, banners for the lobby at HOV and Christie’s auction house, huge poster sized invites, as well as a large format case-bound book. I did a PURPLE metallic foil on a dark navy tight-weave cloth. How often does a designer get to use purple in this way? Never! So I was really excited when Emilio Steinberger, the Director, was into it as well. I’d love to show you the book in person so give me a call and Ill lets have a coffee and I’ll show it to you. I really proud of this one. HOV has really given me free reign and it’s pushed me to really create some of my best work. Thanks Emilio and HOV!

It’s so rare to be able to be emersed in such an excellent time period like I was for this exhibit. It was an absolute blast to do. We got to pick fantastic colors for the decks and walls of the vitrines and create huge photo blow-ups and super-graphics. The archives I went through to find the images were really phenominal. I worked closely with the lender for this exhibit, Mario Pulice, who was amazing to work with. Check out the type and lit cases which were my two favorite parts of this show. The exhibition will be up at the Seaport Museum New York for the next few months.

These are some of the design materials that went along with the new exhibit: DECODENCE / Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard The S.S. Normandie, which I did exhibition design for as well with Sandra Hirshkowitz, for the Seaport Museum. I did everything from a capsule website for the exhibit to advertising and custom wallpaper for our partners Lalique and Jeremy Scott. Take a look at this snapshot of the varied graphics created.