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THESIS:
ESCHATON
Speculative Design · Afrofuturist Cartography · Worldbuilding · Visual Identity
Eschaton explores how speculative cartography can function as a tool of Afrofuturist storytelling, using the design of an imagined planetary map regional flags, organizational insignia, and narrative lore to visualize diaspora, survival, and the creation of new futures beyond Earth. By rendering the geography of an invented planet, Eschaton asks what it means to name, claim, and inhabit space on one's own terms.
A complete planetary identity system encompassing political geography, regional governance, organizational insignia, and narrative lore rendered through map design, flag systems, and world documentation. This project uses fictional world-building to explore how marginalized communities might imagine and reclaim their own futures beyond Earth.
A WALK AROUND
THE BAY
Branding · Merchandise · Visual Identity
A Walk Around The Bay” is a series of Old Bay tin and merchandise designs based around important monuments and landmarks around Baltimore. This project was done in my Senior year at the Maryland Institute College of Art in collaboration with McCormick Inc. I earned one of three spots selected program-wide to present a final design to McCormick Inc.
This overall design approach was chosen to reflect the variety of Baltimore and how Old Bay relates to it. The diverse grid of icons represents the city's eclectic neighborhoods, food traditions, and communities, while Old Bay serves as the unifying element that brings everyone together, a seasoning that crosses all boundaries.
TRUIMPH- MICA ANNIVERSARY JACKET
Branding · Apparel · Fashion Graphics · Visual Identity
"Triumph" is a commemorative letterman jacket celebrating the Maryland Institute College of Art's 200th anniversary: two centuries of creative excellence and artistic legacy. The design draws directly from MICA's current visual identity, translating its vibrant, maximalist energy into wearable form. A circular "200 Years of Creativity" badge anchors the chest alongside the iconic MICA wordmark, with a laurel wreath motif threading classical symbolism of achievement throughout the design.
The back makes a graphic statement with a typographic panel featuring MICA's founding year, "1826," stacked and repeated in the school's multi-color palette, each repetition shifting the highlighted digit as a visual countdown through the centuries. Vertical "MICA" lettering runs down the sleeves, ensuring the jacket commands attention from every angle. "Triumph" is designed to be worn with pride: equal parts school spirit and wearable art, as at home in a gallery as it is in a crowd.
FUTURES PAST
Afrofuturism · Abstract Design · Visual Identity
"Futures Past: Afrofuturist Portraits of African Revolutionary Leaders" centers five figures who left undeniable marks on African history and culture. Patrice Lumumba gave everything to Congolese independence, his life a testament to resistance that refused to bend. Thomas Sankara rewrote what revolution could look like: grounded, uncompromising, and deeply committed to women's liberation and a free Africa. Nelson Mandela needs no introduction, but his story remains what it always was, a decades-long refusal to accept a world built on racial hierarchy.
Jomo Kenyatta anchored Kenya's push for independence in something deeper than politics: a reclamation of identity and belonging. And then there's Nnedi Okorafor, a contemporary voice whose fiction imagines African futures, and builds them, pulling history and possibility into the same breath.
Together, their portraits and collages go beyond likeness. Each one is an argument for what these figures meant, what they changed, and what they might still mean in a world reimagined through an Afrofuturist lens.
WHERE’S MY
MUSIC
Web Design · Branding · Visual Identity
Where's My Music or WMM is a mobile app concept that bridges live music discovery with personal memory-keeping. Centered around an interactive map interface, the app allows users to find nearby concerts using music-note location pins, browse artists and genres, and manage a collectible digital ticket collection. After attending a show, users can upload photos and notes to create geo-tagged memory pins, turning each past concert into a replayable archive of places, artists, and moments.
The project features a bold neon visual identity with hot pink branding, ticket-inspired UI elements (cuts, dashed lines, collectible cards), and a two-mode map experience, one for discovering upcoming events and one for revisiting personal concert memories. Designed by a team of three, WMM was developed through competitor analysis of apps like Bandsintown, Songkick, and Polarsteps, user personas, mood boards, and full UI/interaction design, ultimately positioning itself as more than a browsing tool, a lasting personal archive of live music experiences.
ATREIDES DAILY
Worldbuilding · Publication Design · Visual Identity
"Atreides Daily" is a worldbuilding and publication design project centered on creating a fictional in-universe newspaper set within the world of a book of choice. I decided on making one based on Frank Herbert's Dune series. The challenge was to design a fully realized, believable print artifact not just a surface-level pastiche, but something that felt like it could genuinely exist on the desert planet Arrakis.
The project required building out multiple layers simultaneously: inventing a visual identity for a newspaper that would operate under an interstellar feudal empire, developing a fictional script and writing system for the indigenous Fremen people, and constructing editorial content headlines, articles, weather data, and classified notices that all feel grounded in the lore of the books. Every design decision had to serve the fiction. The typefaces, the layout hierarchy, the dual-sun weather report in the masthead, the spice index ticking upward in the corner each element had to feel native to Herbert's universe rather than imported from our own.
On the publication design side, the goal was to evoke the aesthetic of a real broadsheet newspaper while subtly warping its conventions to fit a far-future, desert-world context. The result sits somewhere between a colonial-era gazette and an imperial bulletin board, reflecting the political tension at the heart of the Dune narrative: a powerful house arriving on a planet it doesn't fully understand, reporting on events it may not be able to control.