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xoomPoints

xoom.com (little x) was a provider of free Web hosting in the late 1990s - early 2000s. In the year that I worked there, xoom.com became very popular due to the meme of a man named Mahir, whose xoom page enthusiastically proclaimed "I KISS YOU!!!!";…

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Escape Room (Library Orientation)

One surefire way to destroy new college students' relationship with the library, before it even begins to form, is to lecture to them for 50 minutes in a required library orientation class session. I was on a team of four teaching librarians (Renfro Library, Mars…

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Eurythmics Deluxe

Although Eurythmics' albums were remastered and resold as "deluxe" reissues in 2005, RCA did a disappointing job of it. The remastering is at an ear-fatiguing brickwalled level, obliterating sonic detail; the multi-page booklets wasted most of their design space on full-bleed photos overlaid with pull…

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Explaining the Internet to Executives

There was a time when people like me got paid to design PowerPoint decks that helped hip dot-commers to explain the Internet to financial executives, because money had to come from somewhere. You know it's all true Thankfully, the Internet is no longer in chao... wait,…

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Rad Red Amber Christmas Ale

The label is humorous but the booze was real. I was commissioned to design a label for someone who'd gotten so into home brewing in San Francisco in the '90s that they were sending all their friends and family this amber ale for Christmas. Gosh,…

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Game Night (Unplugged)

To coincide with an exhibition of board games, card games, and puzzles throughout history (but before home electronics!), Renfro Library launched an Unplugged Game Night for students in 2019. The event was a success and we repeated it in February 2020 with an even larger…

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Early Pet Shop Boys.

If Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe saw this, would they cringe harder that they used to have these hairstyles, or that they no longer have hair at all? Here, what began as a simple collection of 12" mixes and b-sides from the very start of…

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Kiss me, you fool!

A themed collage of album covers from "The Art of Noise" exhibition (2016-18). It was satisfying to collect such a breadth of affection in such a small space, including diversity of race, age, and orientation. To accompany this frame, I showcased John Lennon and Yoko…

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Untitled Rooms

These two oil paintings are the only survivors of a set of five untitled paintings of "rooms." (This is because they are the only two I allowed to survive.) More specifically, they were of rooms undergoing distortions.

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Party Hearty

My first professional design! For a mom & pop party shop in New Jersey called Party Hearty, around 198*cough*. They wanted a one-color logo that would lend itself to reproduction in different colors as needed.

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David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel

One of my very favorite albums by anyone at anytime is David Byrne's Complete Score from the Broadway Production of "The Catherine Wheel" (1981). And it has such pitiful artwork. The original LP artwork was half-decent, but that was a 45-minute condensation of the score;…

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