Print Design
BUCA DI BEPPO
Marinara & Gelato
Packaging
PACKAGE DESIGN Buca di Beppo wanted to make their outrageous homemade food available in consumers’ homes and cannonball into the CPG world. So, their gelato and marinara sauce designs needed to represent Buca’s quirky brand personality and off-the-boat Italian taste while never compromising the brand’s signature swagger.
Created as a Print Designer at Periscope
TARGET
Holidazzle
Gingerbread Cookies
PACKAGE DESIGN Target handed out gingerbread cookies from a life-sized gingerbread house at the Target Holidazzle illuminated parade to promote their private-label baking essentials and spices. The package design included a detachable recipe card so guests could make the cookies at home (and drive sales of Archer Farms products).
Created as an Experiential Designer at Periscope
PRAIRIE ORGANIC SPIRITS
Prairiemade
VIP Invitation
INVITATION DESIGN To invite VIP guests to the PrairieMade Tasting Dinner, Phillips Distilling Company captured the Prairie Organic brand's charm and glamorous farmhouse spirit. It shipped handmade artisanal cutting boards in chic, recycled packaging. The invitation was a lasting reminder of the bespoke meal and craft cocktail pairings guests savored at the dinner.
Created as an Experiential Designer at Periscope
PRAIRIE ORGANIC SPIRITS
Custom Infused
Prairie Organic Spirit
GIFT DESIGN Showcasing the versatility of Prairie Organic Vodka and Gin, guests created custom infusions at the PrairieMade Tasting Dinner with a wide range of delicious organic ingredients. While they dined, their bottle of infused vodka was packaged with Prairie Organic’s new gin and a jar of drunken cherries from Heartland, the restaurant that hosted the dinner.
Created as an Experiential Designer at Periscope
UV VODKA
Shake-Up Showdown
Invitation Kit
INVITATION DESIGN To introduce their newest flavor Candy Bar to the world, UV Vodka challenged local bartenders to battle it out to prove which master of mixology would reign supreme. UV armed bartenders to develop their confectionary cocktails, sending them a Shake-Up ShowDown welcome kit with a bottle of UV Candy Bar and UV Original and a branded cocktail shaker. The accompanying collateral piece introduced the contest and explained how bartenders could enter.
Created as an Experiential Designer at Periscope
JOCKEY
Men’s Underwear
Packaging Redesign
PACKAGE DESIGN Buca di Beppo wanted to make their outrageous homemade food available in consumers’ homes and cannonball into the CPG world. So, their gelato and marinara sauce designs needed to represent Buca’s quirky brand personality and off-the-boat Italian taste while never compromising the brand’s signature swagger.
Created as a Print Designer at Periscope
KRYLON
Krylon Dual
Paint & Primer Packaging
PACKAGE DESIGN Standing out on a store shelf is hard. Standing out on a Walmart shelf is even harder. A bold and graphic design covers up the competition and cuts through the clutter in the spray paint aisle—to sell consumers Krylon’s new product, Dual spray paint, and primer in one.
Created as a Print Designer at Periscope
Blank
PUBLICATION DESIGN Blank is a lifestyle publication for twenty-something men. Think GQ meets Rolling Stone (for readers with no time, money, or experience). Design elements have a young and exciting yet unfinished feeling related to how most men view life in their twenties.
Created at The Creative Circus
The Best of
Mitch Hedberg
CD PACKAGE DESIGN Best-of CD highlighting the comedic stylings of Mitch Hedberg. The refrigerator houses objects, including the cupcake-faced CD, that refer to parts of Hedberg’s sets. A Ziploc bag yet unfinished feeling as a nod to one of the comedian’s favorite pastimes.
Created at The Creative Circus
Needle on Wax
10th Anniversary Poster
POSTER DESIGN Needle on Wax is an avant-garde music shop concept where vinyl inspiration meets digital intonation. This event poster celebrated the brand’s 10th anniversary.
Created at The Creative Circus
The Classic Stories
of E. B. White
BOOK & PACKAGE DESIGN The book cover series and packaging illustrate the themes of White’s most famous stories in the same way that children see the world: bright colors, simple shapes, and right or wrong.
Created at The Creative Circus
The Perks of
Being a Wallflower
BOOK COVER DESIGN Book cover for the modern-day “Catcher in the Rye.” Written as a collection of letters, Chobsky’s narrator learns not to blend into the background and starts participating in his life.
Created at The Creative Circus
Jailbirds
BOARD GAME DESIGN A Fourties-inspired board game tests the players’ ability to stay alive as they try to break out of the joint. The game board slides out of the top of the box. Inside a tray, typically found in a footlocker, organizes the playing pieces, cards, dice, and rule book. Underneath the playing pieces lies a secret compartment that gives the players access to a pinup poster and a switchblade comb.
Created at The Creative Circus
International Federation
of Competitive Eaters:
Reindeer Sausage
Eating Competition
POSTER DESIGN Event poster for the International Federation of Competitive Eaters’ Reindeer Sausage Eating Competition. Like a train wreck, you don’t want to look but are strangely mesmerized by the carnage.
Created at The Creative Circus