Art Direction and Design for Neighbors.
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Kasya Denisevich
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Does A Bulldozer Have A Butt?
Editor: Taylor Norman
Illustrator: K-Faii Steele
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Scared of the Dark? It’s Really Scared of You.
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Benjamin Chaud
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Courage Hats.
Editor: Taylor Norman
Illustrator: Jessixa Bagley
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Dog and Hat
Editor: Taylor Norman
Illustrator: Darin Shuler
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Fox and the Forest Fire
Editor: Ariel Richardson
Illustrator: Danny Popovici
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Such A Good Boy
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Marianna Coppo
Published by: Chronicle Books
Book Cover Design for Sight and Sound.
Editor: Christopher Franceschelli
Illustrators: Romana Romanyshyn
and Andriy Lesiv
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction, Design, and Typesetting for The Callers, a middle grade Novel
Editor: Taylor Norman
Illustrator: Kaley McKean
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for The Longest Letsgoboy
Editor: Taylor Norman
Illustrator: Catia Chien
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Magic Mail
* 2 Maps
* 25 Postcards
* 6 Letters
* 6 Envelopes
* Event Tickets
* Newspaper Articles
* Recipes
* Mailbox Packaging
+other ephemera
Editor: Ariel Richardson
Illustrator: Michael Lauritano
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and
Design for Suzy Ultman’s A-Z Menagerie
Novelty Book
Editor: Ariel Richardson
Illustrator: Suzy Ultman
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Taro Gomi’s Play Anything!
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Taro Gomi
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Book Series Design for the Sleuth and Solve series.
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Victor Escandell
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Be My Neighbor? Novelty Book
Editor: Ariel Richardson
Illustrator: Suzy Ultman
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Taro Gomi’s Funny Fish!
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Taro Gomi
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for Suzy Ultman’s Love Can Come In Many Ways Novelty Book
Editor: Ariel Richardson
Illustrator: Suzy Ultman
Published by: Chronicle Books
Art Direction and Design for A Brave Cat
Editor: Naomi Kirsten
Illustrator: Marianna Coppo
Published by: Chronicle Books
Invitation design, typographic collage for Designed Bindings, An exhibition of 26 different bindings of the Pictorial Webster’s Dictionary.
Client: Chronicle Books,
Guild of Book Workers
Art Director: Michael Carabetta
Book design, cover design, illustration, and typesetting for Leatherface’s memoir, Chainsaw Confidential.
Client: Chronicle Books
Author: Leatherface himself!
Art Director: Michael Morris
6 x 9 in; 240 pp;
16-page full-color insert
Hardcover with jacket
Published: Fall 2013
Layout design, typographic collage, history, and visual research done for Federico Garcia Lorca’s biography.
California College of the Arts
Design Instructor: Jennifer Morla
24 in x 36 in
Full color
Senior thesis project for California College of the Arts’ BFA in Graphic Design program.
Written, Designed and
Illustrated by Lydia Ortiz.
8.25 x 10 in; 260 pages
Full color with
8-page 4-color
screen printed and
acetate insert
* 2012 Senior Thesis
Award recipient
* Featured in Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice, published by Routledge.
THESIS:
The immigration of an individual begins a psychosocial process with lasting effects on identity. This play in identity construction ultimately produces a uniquely augmented identity, one that is neither old or new, but instead complex and layered.
Drawing from my background as Filipino and soon to be American, I have collected in this book, an unusual narrative that looks into my own augmented persona.
The chapters in this book were inspired by the ‘Welcome To America’ immigration packet given to me when I first came here. This book’s structure is based on the glossary of the packet, arranging each narrative alphabetically, giving order to an extremely chaotic experience. The characters you’ll see in the book are abstract representations of the protagonist, the immigrant, and the author: myself.
These characters’ forms are constantly changing in each narrative, a rendition of how I constantly wrestled with cultural, social, political, and religious differences and this book does a great job in telling how each experience has changed me anew.
By exploring certain identity shifts that I have undergone as a 19-year-old immigrant coming here from the Philippines, this book hopes to illuminate the complexities of identity and self that we all face when entering a new place, and how we move forward.