As an animator and illustrator, I love texture and line mixed with soft shapes and colors. In photography and social media, I take pleasure in big pictures and small details. In design and graphics, I love clean shapes and mundane objects. Overall, my work represents my personality: equally focused and unfocused, optimistic, and a bit fun. The header photo was taken during a family trip to Shenyang, China, and my family's original house in the Chinese countryside.
Graphic Design and Marketing Materials 2015 - Present
These marketing materials were for the Longwood Graduate Symposium. The March 2016 theme was "Daring Dialogue" - controversial topics and difficult subjects, while this year's theme is "Growing Together" - how public gardens, as cultural institutions, influence the economic landscape around them. The marketing suite was created in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.
The Symposium logo was used for web images, social media promotion, labels and name tags, as well as the Program of the Day
For the 2016 Symposium topic "Daring Dialogue", paper speech bubble cutouts were scanned and compiled for the final logo
This label was attached to a small tin of custom blended tea as a giveaway for Symposium attendants
This year's Symposium logo uses simple shapes to direct attention to the currency, a play on the idea that money does grow on trees!
Photography 2009 - Present
Most of my professional photographs related to public gardens, museums, and art galleries are shot on an iPhone - I've run the gamut from 4, 4s, to 5. Usually these are taken during tours, visits, collaborations, or professional events. I also travel a lot, and I either like the ease of an iPhone camera for social media, or the mystery of a film camera. The softer, wider shots were taken on an old Holga toy camera, held together with black electric tape and rubber bands.
Public Gardens, Museums, and Galleries
Gleaming copper in the kitchen of the Biltmore Estate, NC
The incredible Joseph McGill at Magnolia Plantations, SC
The breathtaking estates of the Biltmore House and Garden, NC
The contemporary and artistic topiary sculptures of Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, SC
Water lilies at night, at Longwood Garden's Nightscapes exhibition
A dense planting of annuals and perennials seen during our North American Experience
Reclaimed barnwood makes a great tool space at Moore Farms Botanical Garden, SC
The conservatory roof at Denver Botanic Gardens, CO
Magnolia Plantations hosted us for lunch in their conservatory - what a treat!
Travel and Film
The family home in Shenyang, China
A diversity of flags in Beijing
A hot and muggy Chinese urban summer, taken from a train
Animation and Illustration 2005 - Present
For illustration, I like watercolors, pencil crayons, pen and ink, and tablet based programs such as Photoshop. My graduating film "Lobster Boy" was hand drawn and animated at twelve frames per second. The colors were done in Flipbook and Photoshop, with the final editing in Adobe Premier.