Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing
International Economics by Husted and Melvin, 7th Edition

The cover image represents a butterfly to symbolize the butterfly effect of international economics — how a purchase (or non-purchase) in the US can effect the Chinese economy. The type of the title continues the illustration of the money-butterfly.


North Shore Community College
2016 President’s Report: North Shore Advancing

The bi-annual publication was based on the theme of their North Shore Advancing funding campaign for their Lynn Campus building expansion, which included the spiraling dots logo.

The publication served to excite donors of their contribution by showing how their donations help the students.

In the background of the cover, the spiraling logo is printed as a clear foil stamp. Inside, photos are marked with colored circles with their captions on the side of the page.


North Shore Community College
2020 President’s Report: Inspire to Aspire

2020 was a year of unprecedented events: The murder of George Floyd and the racial justice movement of Black Lives Matter that followed; a contentious Presidential election that ended with an attemped coup of the US Capitol all amongst COVID-19. I wanted to create a calming and more muted toned publication. All photos were made into duotones of the red and blue school colors. Sections were color coded with screened school colors in their background. The stock was entirely uncoated.


North Shore Community College
Areas of Study rack cards

Twenty two areas of study rack cards were designed destinguished by color and a small icon. They were designed to be placed in a large card rack where the name of the program would peak above the holder.


Cover of book with pieces of playgrounds stitchd together.

Table of contents of book

Danvers map of book

Closer view of Ross Memorial Park page.

Self Published Book
Let’s Get to Know Playgrounds of the North Shore

A guidebook of all the 151 playgrounds on the North Shore of Massachusetts. All images, illustrations, icons, and maps created by myself.

NOTE: The last book was produced in 2010 using a 3 megapixel digital camera with no panorama feature. After photos were manually stitched together in Photoshop, each photo had to be methodically masked using the pen tool to make the black and white playgrounds stand out from their backgrounds. The cover image demonstrates how every pole, ladder and rope was masked to allow the layers of different backgrounds to come through.


Combray House Publishing
Indirection: On Becoming a Better Musician and Trumpet Player as a Conceptual Process, by Charles Schlueter

Charles Schlueter is a renowned trumpeter who was lead chair at the Minnesota Orchestra and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Indirection explores the theory of learning the trumpet conceptually rather than just technically. The “mosaic” figure on the cover (illustrated by Martha Schlueter) is only partially tiled to show the learning process.

The side purple and gold patterns on the cover are part of a traditional Japanese hanging scroll, the ichimonji, used to contain the caligraphy or work on the scroll. In this case, the book. The use of a traditional Japanese piece is to connote the Eastern philosophy behind the indirection process.

The title INDIRECTION is partially obscured to emphasize the use of the unconscious to be able to construct the title.


Cover with generic 9 photo grid of students.

full page spread of photo of donor intently listening to student.

North Shore Community College
PDF version of Strategic Plan

Initially designed for print, it was decided in the end to turn the content into web pages, but with a PDF version to download if desired.

Spread with full page photo on left of Provost speaking with students and text on right side.

Spread of female student in mirror getting ready for commencement.

Using a non-traditional grid of differently width columns and headlines individually created by the merging of the institution’s serif and san-serif Frutiger Neue fonts, the design was focused on the strategic plan’s first priority to be a forward thinking institution as well as the community college’s non-traditional students.

Spread with full page photo on left of two standing students in fall jackets and text on right side.

Spread with large serif-san created font at top and photo on left with copy text on right.

Spread with a larger photo of two staff people on bottom left page and smaller photo of a student speaking with a donor on top right corner.


Minnesota Public Radio
Keepers Christmas CD packaging

YES, a CD. The Keepers CD Series (“Keepers” is a fishing term for a good catch) was a collection of music selected by the Minnesota Public Radio music personalities. Bobbers replace ornaments in an old fashion ornament package.