Brooklyn Queens Land Trust

Pong to Ping

DETAILS: An image from an exquisite corpse exchange with Daniella FuggettaMEDIUM: Digital Painting

Madeline’s Mural

PROJECT: A mural for a baby’s room DESCRIPTION: This mural was commissioned for the adorable baby Madeline. Her parents wanted a woodland theme with many animals doing silly things. 47 animals were included in the mural, a few of those are foxes skiing, a squirrel riding a bicycle, ducks taking selfies,  raccoons at a tea party, a meditating moose and a […]

Magic Forest

PROJECT: Magical Forest DETAILS: A woodland scene created for a client’s mural MEDIUM: Acrylic

Water Women

DETAILS: Portraits of women who surf. MEDIUM: Digital painting

Hamsters on the Run

PROJECT: Hamsters on the Run ROLE: ILLUSTRATOR & PUBLISHER DETAILS: Ever wonder what your hamsters do while you are not looking? When Miah Pluta was four years old she wrote a story about all the fun things hamsters do together and her friend Jessica Findley joyfully illustrated all the silly scenes. Take a peek into the […]

NYCommons.org

CLIENT: NYCommons.org site design DETAILS: NYCommons.org helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres, Inc.  ROLES: Branding, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design  

Twin Planet Illustrations

PROJECT: ILLUSTRATION FOR TWIN PLANET, MEDIUM: Intaglio on 11″ x 8″ paper DETAILS: A children’s book I am writing and illustrating about traveling to a parallel dimension. Yes, that is a squirrel piloting the wooden whale.

Appetite Mural

DETAILS:  I guided and collaborated with the Color Theory Class I taught at The Arts Institute in San Diego to make this mural in honor of the culinary school. ROLE: Art Direction, Teacher

GenVid

CLIENT: ExpoTV DETAILS: Expo TV asked me to redesign the brand and style guide for their GenVid project, catering to content creators. ROLES: Branding, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design

Vinty

CLIENT: Vinty DETAILS: I created the logo design and designed the website for the vintage car rental by owner website DriveVinty.com ROLES: Creative Direction, Branding, UX Design, UI Design

Lolly Wolly Doodle

CLIENT: Lolly Wolly Doodle DETAILS: I guided rebranding and redesign of all digital products and social media marketing for a the largest retailer on Facebook, producing and selling bespoke girl’s dresses. ROLES: Creative Direction, Branding, Art Direction, UX Design, UI Design, Senior Design, Illustration

Marine Alphabet

  MEDIUM: Gauche PaintingDETAILS: Marine Alphabet, Hand Lettering

BICYCLE DREAM

DREAM BIKE DELIVERY DETAILS: A bicycle dream at your service MEDIUM: Watercolor, Collage, Ink EXHIBITION: 2009 Bicycle Film Festival, Joy Ride PUBLISHED: 2015 Pisegrama Magazine

Energy Hub Thermostat Interface Design

  CLIENT: Energy Hub DETAILS: Designed UI & UX for energy efficiency applications and did Graphic Design for marketing. Worked closely creating concepts with product development teams. ROLE: Art Direction, Interface Design, Graphic Design

KOMM HER O KLARHEIT

DETAILS: Illustrations for Sarah Manguso’s book, Komm Her O Klarheit, published by Lux Books. MEDIUM: colored pencil on paper 8″x11″

CREATIVE VITAMINS

CLIENT: Break the Block promotional artwork
MEDIUM: Gauche Painting, Vectors, Hand Lettering
DETAILS: Creative vitamins are visual reminders to help motivate creativity

WITH THESE TWO HANDS

                                        CLIENT: With These Two Hands DETAILS: I designed the logo and style guide for With These Two Hands, a non profit dedicated to empowering women living in poverty via hairdresser training. ROLES: Branding, Design, Typography, Font Design

Porcuapa Illustration

  CLIENT: Porcuapa DETAILS: Illustration for movie poster

Shelby TV Infographic

CLIENT: Shelby TV DETAILS: Infographic gift guide for the holidays ROLE: Infographic Design

SPACE EXPLORATIONS

MONTECRISTO ILLUSTRATION

CLIENT: Montecristo Magazine ROLE: Illustration for the article “Get Real – Identifying Fake Art and Antiques”

Bring Jewelry Website

  CLIENT: Bring ROLE: Web design for Japanese Jewelry Designer

MOLESKINE FRIENDS TO READ WITH

CLIENT: Moleskine DETAILS: With her new Moleskine friends, glasses, book light & ipad stand, little Jessica is able to explore the magic of the world anywhere the word can take her. ROLE: Concept, Animation, Photography & Music.

Windowfarm Business Card

  CLIENT: Windowfarms DETAILS: Business Card Design ROLE: Print Design, Illustration    

Rosie’s Walk For Kittens

      CLIENT: Infinite Hope DETAILS: Tshirt Design for charity walk to aid homeless kittens ROLE: Print Design

BICYCLE AURAS

DETAILS: Bicycle Aura Portraits. Top Left: Ines Brunn, Sadek Bazaraa, Jessica Findley, Benny Zenga, Brendt Barbur, Maki Hojo, Francesca Tallone, Lucas Brunelle, Jill Nussbaum EXHIBITION: 2010 Bicycle Film Festival, Joy Ride MEDIUM: Watercolor

Amenda Clinic Branding

    CLIENT: Amenda Clinic DETAILS: Logo Design for a holistic clinic based in Portland, Oregon ROLE: Branding, Design

596 Acres Poster

  CLIENT: 596 Acres DETAILS: Spanish Poster Design to promote community use of empty public lots in New York ROLE: Print Design

UNLOCAL Branding

  CLIENT: Unlocal.org DETAILS: Branding, Logo and Business Card Design for a non-profit legal services provider ROLE: Branding & Print Design

The Haggadah

                              CLIENT: Melcher Media DETAILS: Illustrations for The Haggadah for the Ipad ROLE: Illustrations

Windowfarms Bag Art

                                        CLIENT: Windowfarms DETAILS: Artwork for Reusable Bag ROLE: Print Design, Illustration

WEBSITE: AUTHOR, SARAH MANGUSO

CLIENT: Sarah Manguso ROLE: Identity & Web design

Teen Vogue Animation

CLIENT: Teen Vogue DETAILS: Animated work for Teen Vogue Insider App Back to School Animation ROLE: Art director, Animator and Illustrator

Wolff Consulting Website

CLIENT: Wolff Consulting DETAILS: Site Design for fashion brand consultant ROLE: Web Design

AEOLIAN RIDE

DETAILS : A mass bicycle ride of 50 people, where riders wear suits which inflate as they ride. There are 3 costume types – the bunny the bubble and the drop. Originally made as a public art antidote to 911 blues. Get involved. EXHIBITION: AEOLIAN ISLAND, VULCAN SICILY, 07.16.11 RIA DE AVEIRO, PORTUGAL, 07.02.11 BREMEN, […]

MYTHEOTYPES: Mother of Dragons

PROJECT: Mytheotypes: Mother of Dragons DETAILS: A portrait of stereotypes expanded into mythological creatures. This portrait is of a Hong Kong Grandmother, who labors well into her years and is transformed into the Mother of Dragons 龍母, Long Mu. Long Mu raised 5 snakes that turned into dragons. In return for her love dragons would help bring rain to her village. […]

CONCIOUSNESS

DETAILS: Art for a Tibetan Mala Website MEDIUM: Ink & watercolor on paper 7″x10″

MYTHEOTYPES: Coyote

DETAILS:  I collaborated on my Mytheotype Portrait Series with  photographer, Jason Findley. For this series I create costumes based on stereotypes and myths of a culture. The model has Mexican and Swiss roots. We decided to portray a Coyote who clandestinely guides people over the border and a Coyote spirit, Huehuecoyotl,  who is known as […]

SNAKE

DETAILS: Created as an audio/visual response to the Difference Engine artists from Ireland, whose work focused on the internal landscape. The snake resonates with the Hopi stories that there is a snake vibrating sound at the earth’s core and the Australian Aboriginal idea of the songline which maps the horizon and crosses the earth with […]

PAUL FRANK MOBILE GAMES

CLIENT: Paul Frank DETAILS: Julius travels the world to feed his hunger. ROLE: Creative Direction and Design

ESCUELA TECUANES MURAL & BOATS

DETAILS: In cooperation with the Escuela Tecuanes Club de Futbol , the local organic group and Azulita we painted a mural for the school / recycling center, environmental artwork on fishing boats and made recycling signs for local fishing boats.

STEREO MASKS

DETAILS: Perhaps the people of Atlantis had a tool to make 5th dimensions out of our 4th, the way we make 3 dimensions out of 2. These cards are meant to be viewed with the stereo cards: Visions from Atlantis. Mysteries of water, the Hopi chakras, the power of the pyramids build the landscape of […]

WORD FAMIILY EDUCATIONAL GAME

CLIENT: Shortstack Apps DETAILS: Educational mobile application using characters and games to teach preschoolers how to read ROLE: Art Direction, Design & Illustration

TROPICAL FANTASY & IRIS ATION

PROJECT: Iris Ation feat. Tropical Fantasy – “Hello Operator” DETAILS: Jessica Findley’s alter ego Iris Ation Collaborates with Tropical Fantasy (AKA) Desmond Williams

LOS SIENTO POR SONIDO

DETAILS: Embedded zither performance and installation by Jessica Findley and Victoria Keddie. Originally conceived as an interactive installation the blind. MEDIUM: Zither strings, mallets abandoned furniture, spanned 3 rooms in the convent. EXHIBITION: Performed live at “SEQUENCE OF WAVES” 01.29.11 St Cecelia’s Convent Brooklyn, New York

HORUS CYCLE

DETAILS: Perfection of invention imagined with the ancients. MEDIUM: Watercolor, Collage, Ink EXHIBITION: 2011 Bicycle Film Festival, Joy Ride

PATTERNS ON WAVES

These surfboard designs reflect my passion for the water and the magic of riding waves. A collaboration with Australian shaper Michael Carson and Matador Surf.

GATE OF ANUBIS

DETAILS: The Gate of Anubis is a project of awakening. Anubis is the Egyptian dog-headed god who helps people into the afterlife. Wearing the mask of Anubis allows the two images to go from 2 dimensional to merge into one 3 dimensional image. The imagery depicts connections between ancient symbolism between Hopi, Egyptian, Hawaiian, Mayan […]

MOLESKINE DAY

CLIENT: Moleskine DETAILS: Stop-motion Animation for the Moleskine Planner ROLE: Art Director, Animatior & Composer

KACHINA

DETAILS: Kachina representations of great spirits, embodiments of natural elements or principles in the Hopi tradition. I create my own Kachina as my understanding of these elements and principles expands. EXHIBITION: Paper Spaceship, 08.16.10 MEDIUM: Watercolor

MOLESKINE OFFICE MUSIC

CLIENT: Moleskine DETAILS: An animation created to introduce a new Moleskine collection including printable paper, document folder, index book and ring binder. ROLE: Photography, Animation & Music

WINDOWFARMS

CLIENT: Windowfarms DETAILS: Technical illustrations and animations for a innovative hydroponic home gardening product ROLE: Animator, Illustrator

GIRL SCOUT SURVEY

CLIENT: Girl Scouts DETAILS: Flash animations and illustrations to make the web surveys more fun for volunteering girls. ROLE: Illustration, Animation

AEROPOSTLE BIRD CAT

CLIENT: Aeropostale Kids DETAILS: T-shirt Illustration

AURA BOOTH

DETAILS: Much like a photo booth, a visitor comes and inserts a donation (which went to a charity Green Apple Kids) and they receive strip of four images of themselves, only instead of a camera inside of the box the artist viewed the visitor through a prism and painted their vibe on the strip, when […]

DOWSER TOOLKIT ANIMATION

CLIENT: DOWSER DETAILS: An informative video about Dowser’s tools for helping journalists identify and report on solutions (or potential solutions) to social problems. ROLE: Concepting & Animation

I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

DETAILS: Excorcised negative and positives of the past. PUBLISHED: Chinese Wax Job 2010 MEDIUM: Watercolor

MAMMOTH

PORTRAIT: JILL NUSSBAUM

MATCH.COM

CLIENT: Match.com DETAILS: Illustrations for Match.com’s Happen Magazine ROLE: Design & Illustration

JEWISH MUSEUM

CLIENT: Jewish Museum DETAILS: Illustrations for children’s exhibits and animations. ROLE: Illustrator

TICKLE TYNI – CHARACTER DESIGN

CLIENT: HARPER PRODUCTIONS DETAILS: Character illustrations for children’s mobile application ROLE: Character Design & Illustration

CAMELBAK BOTTLES

CLIENT: CAMELBAK PROJECT: Illustrations for children’s waterbottles Role: Concept & Illustration

INTERNATIONAL FINE PRINT DEALERS ASSOCIATION

CLIENT: International Fine Print Dealers Association ROLE: Web Design for both the main site and the print fair. A collaboration with Mediacombo.

THE MAYAN EYE

DETAILS: A stop motion animation made in Mexico inspired by Mayan Tarot Cards. ROLE: Concept and animation. A collaboration with Jan Drojarski

LUMEN

DETAILS: an installation composed of 3 parts. 1) Sonic Chandelier – A chandelier suspended from a speaker producing low base sounds. The base sounds are an echo of the period of waves for that day at Far Rockaway, where I surf. It is a reflection on the power of the ocean where all my senses […]

WEAVINGS

  DETAILS: Counting the days with movements and patterns.

TWIN PLANET

TWIN PLANET DETAILS: A story of a girl who finds her twin in a parallel dimension MEDIUM: Guache

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

CLIENT: American Museum of Natural History DETAILS: Interactive kiosks for the Trackways and Flying Dinosaurs exhibit tailored to educating children. These kiosks continued to with the traveling exhibit after its debut at the American Museum of Natural History. ROLE: Interaction Design, Interface Design. A collaboration with Mediacombo.

NANNY DIARIES

CLIENT: Desmond Williams DETAILS: Illustrations for editorial writings ROLE: Illustration

SHIPS AND PIRATES

  DETAILS : A Nautical themed self-promotion MEDIUM : Acrylic, Watercolor & Guache

COMPUTERS FOR YOUTH

CLIENT: Computers for Youth DETAILS: Multiple computer applications for educating innercity youth on computer use. ROLE: Design & Illustration

LUCHADOR SKI MASK

DETAILS: The delicate fighter EXHIBTION: La Superette, Eyebeam Gallery, New York 2006

OWL

MEDIUM : Watercolor

CHILDREN WITH STRANGERS

DETAILS : What it looks like when you take photos with your kids on vacation with strangers MEDIUM : Guache

COOL EH MAGAZINE

CLIENT: Cool Eh Magazine DETAILS: Illustrations for editorial writings ROLE: Illustration

SELF PROMOTION

PROJECT: Self promotional Postcard Illustration MATERIALS: Graphite

GROW

DETAILS: GROW is a serenade for plants. Living together as lovers, hanging in connected papooses made from reused shopping bags, a plant is paired with a speaker playing sounds and songs especially chosen and made for the plant. Inspired by a vintner in Tuscany who plays classical music to grow better grapes, GROW, is a […]

ANIMAL AEROBICS CALENDAR GIRLS

MEDIUM : Guache

WEDDING BOOKMARK

DETAILS: Wedding gift from the bride and groom to the guests. Designed with attributes of the loves of both the bride and groom embedded. ROLE: Design & Illustration

WHEN YOUR DOG OWNS YOUR MIND

CLIENT: HARPER PRODUCTIONS DETAILS: POSTER ILLUSTRATION FOR A SHORT FILM ROLE: Illustration

TYLENOL OUCH – OFFICE ZODIAC

CLIENT: TYLENOL DETAILS: Office Zodiac for the Ouch Campaign ROLE: Illustration

NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

CLIENT: New York Underground Film Festival ROLE: Web Design

SHOW & TELL

  PROJECT: Show + Tell is a collaboration with Margot Jacobs. As the title suggests, about showing and telling existing and hidden happenings in our everyday surroundings and lives. Visitors are invited to attach their secret desires to a series of strings extending from a central point on the gallery back wall to the frame of […]

BREATHE

DETAILS: biofeedback installation An installation space utilizing the human breath to move suspended strings. A memory of the breath remains for newcomers to witness. Collaboration with Margot Jacobs. EXHIBITION: Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

FRONT

DETAILS: FRONT Voice-activated, inflatable, conflict suits. You yell and your aggressive sacs inflate while your opponents defensive sacs inflate. A more peaceful way to battle through posture and play. Collaboration with Ralph Borland and Margot Jacobs.

MONKEY SHOW

DETAILS:Animation about my uncle’s kidnapping in china when he was a toddler. Audio is my mother relaying the story. MEDIUM:Paint on glass