Publication and Book Design
Publications are my favorite medium. My background in traditional typesetting and printmaking informs how I approach digital design, considering how words and images interact on the page in order to tell compelling stories.
Cover and interior design for There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt, Haymarket Books. There Are Trans People Here is a collection of poems that centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. The featured photo collage is “Transgender Hiroes” by Chris E. Vargas of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA)
Page layouts for Stateville Speaks. Stateville Speaks is a newsletter written by and for incarcerated individuals, their families, those working in the correctional system and other interested citizens. Learn more
Printed handout for Return to Sender: Prison As Censorship Exhibition curated by Mariame Kaba (left). Installation photo (right) courtesy of EFA Project Space.
Zine for Chicago Artists for Brandon Johnson, a coalition of artists founded in 2023 to help elect Brandon Johnson for Mayor of Chicago. Artists created graphics, art, posters and more about the importance of art in our communities; the needs of Chicago artists like fair wages and housing; and the need to end state violence and policing in our communties. I designed this zine using text written by the collective to educate voters about Paul Vallas’ anti-education, anti-queer, anti-working class platform that courted white supremacists and the far right. Learn more
Ancestor Transmissions Zine remixes text and images from 70’s and 80’s gay and lesbian underground publications found in the Washington Harold public library in Chicago. The zine searches for connection with queer ancestors and reflects on the state of queer and trans liberation.
Zine page spread for Minnow.
Wowaus (J. Printer) is an artist book inspired by Nipmuc printer and translator Wowaus, called James Printer by English settlers. In the 1600’s he became the first Indigenous printer, training on the first printing press brought to North America from Europe. He was instrumental in printing many of the first books in the British colonies and served as a translator for settlers and Indigenous communities. However, he was only given credit for his work once, in a single colophon. This book prints this colophon over and over again until it becomes unintelligible, mirroring the complicated politics of language, technology and culture Wowaus likely navigated.