Midnight Umbrella — Design, Art & Writing

Projects

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Art, Design, Writing, Community, and splendid visual chaos from the maw of the Midnight Umbrella machine. For you.

Artists for Education project: close-up of color-coded periodic-table cells.

ARTISTS for EDUCATIONArtists For Education PosterA classroom-ready periodic table wrangling all 118 elements with bright color, friendly type, and a whole lot of hierarchy.

Bob Dylan’s New York Revisited project: red cover typography for the 1961–69 informative map guide.

Bob Dylan’s New York RevisitedBob Dylan’s New York Revisited Map GuideA guide, map, postcards, and packaging tracing Dylan’s 1960s Manhattan through scrappy lettering, ephemera, and Greenwich Village grit.

Bay State Design Shop project: printed BSDS official-member card with a dated membership stamp.

Bay State Design ShopBay State Design Shop CommunityA pretension-free New England design community with meetups, field trips, workshops, portfolio reviews, good deeds, and 1,000 members.

Community at DribbbleCreative Community + Content at DribbbleEvents, programs, writing, and a human brand voice help designers connect—across screens, cities, workshops, and occasional weird prompts.

Halftone Visions project: concentric black-and-white photographic rings combining wood grain and blurred highlights.

Halftone VisionsHalftone Visions Collage SeriesHandmade collage with everyday photos, a home printer, scissors, tape, and a scanner—letting texture and happy accidents do their thing.

Pool Tile Sans project: geometric letter and symbol specimen chart in pink on dark purple.

POOL TILE SANSPool Tile Sans Modular TypefaceA modular typeface from the blunt tile lettering around public pools—expanded into a full alphabet with grids and optical cheating.

Set Syllables project: My still orphaned heart, an oxbow lake carved cleanly from the riverbed, in dark bands over a reflected landscape.

Set SyllablesSet Syllables Haiku Poetry ProjectBrief poems—often seventeen syllables—turned into restrained typographic compositions full of observation, texture, and atmosphere.

Tangram States project: colorful geometric United States map print on crumpled brown packing paper.

Tangram StatesTangram States Poster CampaignU.S. states rebuilt from simple shapes—a screen experiment that wandered through Kickstarter and eventually wound up in ink on paper.

Tree House Brewing CompanyTree House Brewing Company Branding, Packaging + MerchPackaging, type, and illustration for one of America’s most beloved craft breweries—across beer, coffee, spirits, and plenty more besides.

Mid-century milk cap 1 from the Vernacular Circles archive

Vernacular CirclesVernacular Circles Vintage Milk Cap ArchiveA love letter to mid-century milk caps—tiny circles packed with curved type, limited color, lively illustration, and regional charm.

You Must Be This Tall project: peeling blue paint and faded red lettering on a textured wall.

You Must Be This TallYou Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point ParkA film identity for a documentary about Rhode Island’s abandoned Rocky Point Park—cheerful ephemera, nostalgia, photography, and decay.

Artists for Education project: close-up of color-coded periodic-table cells.

ARTISTS for EDUCATIONArtists For Education PosterA classroom-ready periodic table wrangling all 118 elements with bright color, friendly type, and a whole lot of hierarchy.

Bob Dylan’s New York Revisited project: red cover typography for the 1961–69 informative map guide.

Bob Dylan’s New York RevisitedBob Dylan’s New York Revisited Map GuideA guide, map, postcards, and packaging tracing Dylan’s 1960s Manhattan through scrappy lettering, ephemera, and Greenwich Village grit.

Bay State Design Shop project: printed BSDS official-member card with a dated membership stamp.

Bay State Design ShopBay State Design Shop CommunityA pretension-free New England design community with meetups, field trips, workshops, portfolio reviews, good deeds, and 1,000 members.

Community at DribbbleCreative Community + Content at DribbbleEvents, programs, writing, and a human brand voice help designers connect—across screens, cities, workshops, and occasional weird prompts.

Halftone Visions project: concentric black-and-white photographic rings combining wood grain and blurred highlights.

Halftone VisionsHalftone Visions Collage SeriesHandmade collage with everyday photos, a home printer, scissors, tape, and a scanner—letting texture and happy accidents do their thing.

Pool Tile Sans project: geometric letter and symbol specimen chart in pink on dark purple.

POOL TILE SANSPool Tile Sans Modular TypefaceA modular typeface from the blunt tile lettering around public pools—expanded into a full alphabet with grids and optical cheating.

Set Syllables project: My still orphaned heart, an oxbow lake carved cleanly from the riverbed, in dark bands over a reflected landscape.

Set SyllablesSet Syllables Haiku Poetry ProjectBrief poems—often seventeen syllables—turned into restrained typographic compositions full of observation, texture, and atmosphere.

Tangram States project: colorful geometric United States map print on crumpled brown packing paper.

Tangram StatesTangram States Poster CampaignU.S. states rebuilt from simple shapes—a screen experiment that wandered through Kickstarter and eventually wound up in ink on paper.

Tree House Brewing CompanyTree House Brewing Company Branding, Packaging + MerchPackaging, type, and illustration for one of America’s most beloved craft breweries—across beer, coffee, spirits, and plenty more besides.

Mid-century milk cap 1 from the Vernacular Circles archive

Vernacular CirclesVernacular Circles Vintage Milk Cap ArchiveA love letter to mid-century milk caps—tiny circles packed with curved type, limited color, lively illustration, and regional charm.

You Must Be This Tall project: peeling blue paint and faded red lettering on a textured wall.

You Must Be This TallYou Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point ParkA film identity for a documentary about Rhode Island’s abandoned Rocky Point Park—cheerful ephemera, nostalgia, photography, and decay.

Artists for Education project: close-up of color-coded periodic-table cells.

ARTISTS for EDUCATIONArtists For Education PosterA classroom-ready periodic table wrangling all 118 elements with bright color, friendly type, and a whole lot of hierarchy.

Bob Dylan’s New York Revisited project: red cover typography for the 1961–69 informative map guide.

Bob Dylan’s New York RevisitedBob Dylan’s New York Revisited Map GuideA guide, map, postcards, and packaging tracing Dylan’s 1960s Manhattan through scrappy lettering, ephemera, and Greenwich Village grit.

Bay State Design Shop project: printed BSDS official-member card with a dated membership stamp.

Bay State Design ShopBay State Design Shop CommunityA pretension-free New England design community with meetups, field trips, workshops, portfolio reviews, good deeds, and 1,000 members.

Community at DribbbleCreative Community + Content at DribbbleEvents, programs, writing, and a human brand voice help designers connect—across screens, cities, workshops, and occasional weird prompts.

Halftone Visions project: concentric black-and-white photographic rings combining wood grain and blurred highlights.

Halftone VisionsHalftone Visions Collage SeriesHandmade collage with everyday photos, a home printer, scissors, tape, and a scanner—letting texture and happy accidents do their thing.

Pool Tile Sans project: geometric letter and symbol specimen chart in pink on dark purple.

POOL TILE SANSPool Tile Sans Modular TypefaceA modular typeface from the blunt tile lettering around public pools—expanded into a full alphabet with grids and optical cheating.

Set Syllables project: My still orphaned heart, an oxbow lake carved cleanly from the riverbed, in dark bands over a reflected landscape.

Set SyllablesSet Syllables Haiku Poetry ProjectBrief poems—often seventeen syllables—turned into restrained typographic compositions full of observation, texture, and atmosphere.

Tangram States project: colorful geometric United States map print on crumpled brown packing paper.

Tangram StatesTangram States Poster CampaignU.S. states rebuilt from simple shapes—a screen experiment that wandered through Kickstarter and eventually wound up in ink on paper.

Tree House Brewing CompanyTree House Brewing Company Branding, Packaging + MerchPackaging, type, and illustration for one of America’s most beloved craft breweries—across beer, coffee, spirits, and plenty more besides.

Mid-century milk cap 1 from the Vernacular Circles archive

Vernacular CirclesVernacular Circles Vintage Milk Cap ArchiveA love letter to mid-century milk caps—tiny circles packed with curved type, limited color, lively illustration, and regional charm.

You Must Be This Tall project: peeling blue paint and faded red lettering on a textured wall.

You Must Be This TallYou Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point ParkA film identity for a documentary about Rhode Island’s abandoned Rocky Point Park—cheerful ephemera, nostalgia, photography, and decay.