Daily Dishonesty is a book and award-winning hand-lettering blog. It combines my love of typography, humor, copywriting, and illustration. The blog documents the lies I tell myself on a regular basis. Hopefully, you're guilty too and can have a good laugh! Check out the blog at: dailydishonesty.com
Awards: 2015 CA Typography Annual 5 Winner
2014 CA Typography Annual 4 Winner
2014 Webby Nominee
2013 Webby Award
Mural painted for First Coat festival in Toowoomba, Australia.
Dimensions: 45’ x 15’
The finished piece is titled “Don't Forget to Stop and Share the Roses”. A modern take on a classic phrase, this mural playfully explores the blurred lines between our physical lives and digital lives. Hidden inside the handmade floral illustrations are subtle social media icons for the viewer to discover. Social media is a seemingly necessary evil - both praised for its ability to keep us connected with each other and criticized for distracting us from real life. In a world where we interact online as much as we do in person, this mural poses the question: What does it mean to stop and smell the roses today?
Special thanks to Lauren Ronquillo and Tom Wahlin for helping me paint.
Custom chalkboard lettering for my own bedroom. Yes, that is me sleeping.
Dimensions: 8' x 8'
Hand lettered phrases and icons for a 2016 marketing presentation for Google Apps.
Client: Google
Tarot-inspired artwork created to announce a collaboration between Adobe & musician BØRNS.
Client: Adobe
Agency: Golin
My grandma is 81 years old and has lived in the same community in Southern California for the last 55 years. Every Friday at 11:30am sharp for the past 5 years, my grandma and 20 of her other grandma friends meet at their local Wendy's to have lunch. They charmingly refer to themselves as the WenDivas, and I designed a mini-brand identity for them to highlight the importance of women spending time together and supporting each other.
Adobe loved this project so much that they interviewed me for their blog! Click here to read the full post.
Client: Adobe Creative Cloud
Inspired by my love of food and puns, Flour Crowns is an edible art project I started in March 2017. With spring right around the corner, I noticed my social media feeds starting to fill up with festival fashion and flowers. The idea came to me first as a simple play on the word "flower crown", and my imagination took it from there.
Follow along on Instagram or at flourcrowns.com
Lettering and art direction for an 8-part social campaign for Lennox, a leading provider of innovative, home heating and cooling systems. These images and time lapse videos were created as part of Lennox's "In Your Words" campaign, which enlisted artists to turn actual five-star customer reviews into works of art.
Client: Lennox
I had the honor of collaborating with Studio Ink & Hallmark on a collection of colorful cards for their artist series. Purchase one for your next occasion here!
To promote the launch of the LG V30 phone, I designed a set of graphics to represent New York for packaging and event materials for LG's 'This is Real' activation. The event, held in 5 cities across the USA, paid tribute to each featured city and celebrated people keeping it real.
Client: LG USA
Agency: Game Seven
I lettered, styled, and photographed this series of social media posts for ClearVia, a new probiotic blend designed to eradicate hangovers entirely. The campaign aimed to spread the word that Clearvia allows one to be one’s best self every day, even if a few drinks were in the cards the night before.
Client: Clearvia
Agency: HYPR
Trio of hand lettered spreads for TIME’s special edition publication, The Science of Marriage.
Client: TIME
Art Director: Chelsea Kardokus
Partnering with K-Y, I had the pleasure of spreading the good word that you don’t need a reason, like Valentine’s Day, to enjoy a hot date or romantic evening with your partner. The ‘You Don’t Need a Reason’ campaign encourages couples to take the pressure off of unrealistic holiday expectations because you can (and should) celebrate your love any day of the year!
I created a series of quirky small-batch love notes for K-Y, crafted witty campaign social content, and spent the day in NYC with Dr. Laura Berman (renowned sex and relationship educator and therapist) giving mini-lettering workshops & intimacy tips to top-tier women’s health, sex & relationship, and lifestyle magazine editors.
I donated this 40ft x 10ft mural to my elementary school, Silver Spur Elementary in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The colorful artwork depicts the school's motto, "Make it a great day or not. The choice is yours!"
Lettering for a print campaign for Blue Diamond Nut Thins running in food and lifestyle magazines nationwide.
Client: Blue Diamond
Art Direction: Alex Anderson
Agency: Y&R San Francisco
The more you know about beer, the more you will love beer.
Client: Samuel Adams
Agency: The Brooklyn Brothers
Produced and Directed by: Dress Code
Creative Directors: Andre Andreev, G. Dan Covert
Executive Producer: Tara Rose Stromberg
Line Producer: Veronica Balta
DP: Matt Workman
Production Designer: Sergeo Levitas
Beverage Stylist: Ed Gabriels
Stop Motion Animators: Maxwell Sorensen, Zack Williams
Animators: Barbara Benas, Vincenzo Lodigiani
Compositors: Alejandro Monzón, Vincenzo Lodigiani
Chalk Artwork: Lauren Hom
Music: Mophonics
This illustrated journal cheerily guides you through a year of gratitude, highlighting life's little moments that bring unexpected joy. Published by Abrams in 2016. Get your copy here!
I love food. I love love. So, I made this pizza & poppy wedding invitation for fun.
If anyone would seriously want to use this for their wedding, you’re super cool and should send me an email.
Lettering for DIRECTV NOW + Sports Illustrated commercials featuring Chrissy Teigen and Hailey Clauson streaming live TV anywhere their model lives take them.
Client: DirecTV + Sports Illustrated
Agency: BBDO
Art Director: Mike Lomanto
Poster designed in collaboration with Goodtype, an online community of letter lovers! Buy your limited-edition print here.
Lettering and photo styling for a Halloween-themed social post for Freixenet, a popular Spanish sparkling wine.
Client: Freixenet
Agency: CYCLE
I painted this 10' x 6' mural in Barcelos, Portugal at The Nomad Farm, an old farm turned into a co-working and co-living space for travelers.
Lettering and illustration for a series of posters for noosa, an insanely yummy yogurt made in small batches on a farm in Colorado. I was asked to sample every flavor of noosa and design posters based on creative descriptions of my favorite flavors. I chose coconut, blueberry, and lemon and had so much fun coming up with colorful ways to describe each flavor.
Client: Noosa
Agency: Vayner Media
Lettering for a feature article in The Ritz Carlton Magazine, a quarterly publication found at Ritz Carlton hotels.
Client: The Ritz Carlton Magazine
Creative Director: Michael Goesele
6' x 6' Chalkboard mural of a quote from the founder designed for Chobani's New York City office.
Client: Chobani
While traveling through South America, I had the pleasure of painting this mural at Supertramp Hostel, a colorful, eco-friendly hostel in Cusco, Peru.
Dimensions: 8’ x 4’
Client: Supertramp Hostel
Lettering for a series of social posts to promote McDonald's new line of McCafé beverages.
Client: McDonald's McCafé
Agency: Golin
Designer: Lauren Ronquillo
Cover and interior lettering for the Fall 2016 edition of The Ritz Carlton Magazine, a quarterly publication found at Ritz Carlton hotels. View the full issue here.
Client: The Ritz Carlton Magazine
Creative Director: Michael Goesele
Lettering for the "The Way I See It" Starbucks 2014 social campaign.
Client: Starbucks
Agency: BBDO NY
Art Direction: David Baden
Custom office artwork designed for Honest, a fully-integrated advertising agency in Barcelona.
Lettering and spot illustrations for TIME Magazine's 2014 Holiday Gift Guide.
Client: TIME Magazine
Art Direction: Chelsea Kardokus
Chalkboard mural created for 'wichcraft, a gourmet sandwich company in New York City. Created over two days, the mural illustrates 'wichcraft's motto and highlights the fresh ingredients they use every day.
Dimensions: 9' x 12'
Hand lettered cover and interior spreads for the May 2016 issue of BUILDER, a publication that provides home builders with building news, plans, design ideas, and building product information, helping them manage their home building operations efficiently and profitably.
Client: Builder Magazine
Art Director: Tina Lynn Tabibi
For all of 2016 and half of 2017, I traveled through South America, Europe, and Asia – all without taking a typical travel picture. No photos of sunsets by the beach. No overhead shots of exotic meals. No selfies.
What?! Why?! I draw things for a living, so what better way to capture my travels than by sketching, not snapping, my way around the world? I’m also aware that I live in a world of selfie sticks and sharing anything and everything that I do. With the ability and desire to capture everything so quickly, I’ve been guilty of spending more time fussing over angles and filters than actually enjoying the moment. So, instead of experiencing the world through a screen, I wanted to spend the year documenting my adventures the old-fashioned way through lettering and drawings in my sketchbook.
You can follow along on the blog and on Instagram. Happy travels and doodles to all!
Lettering for the cover of San Diego Magazine’s 2016 Charitable Giving Guide publication.
Client: San Diego Magazine
Art Director: Rebecca Wilson
This is my grandma. She is a wonderful human being full of wonderful wisdom, and I thought she deserved a place on my website. She's always had this knack for coming up with witty one-liners, so I decided to letter one of her favorite pieces of life advice on a chalkboard in her front yard.
Grandma if you've figured out how to use your iPhone to browse the internet and are reading this, HELLO! WELCOME! I LOVE YOU!
Hand lettering and illustration for the cover of The Digital Nomad Survival Guide. This book provides useful and specific knowledge about travel, housing, work, and socializing to help you set up and manage your new lifestyle as a digital nomad. This book pulls together practical advice from the authors’ experience, conversations with 20+ successful digital nomads, and tips from hundreds more nomads across 70+ countries.
Client: Katherine Conaway & Peter Knudson
Custom lettering for Ex Boyfriend Tears, a line of flasks I created as a joke. Turns out, lots of girls (and boys) wanted to drink the tears of their ex lovers, so I produced the collection myself!
Products available at exboyfriendtears.bigcartel.com
Lettering for the cover of Washingtonian Magazine's 2014 Cheap Eats issue.
Client: Washingtonian Magazine
Creative Direction: Michael Goesele
Festive lettering and illustrations for Chatelaine Magazine's 2014 Holiday Gift Guide.
Client: Chatelaine Magazine
Creative Direction: Rose Pereira
Lettering for an article I wrote about my love for freelancing and Beyonce. You can read it here.
Will Letter For Lunch is a personal project born out of my love for lettering and food. The idea is simple: I go around New York City and letter restaurant signs and menus in exchange for the exact food items I write out. The result? Beautiful signs for businesses and a full belly for me!
Check out the signs and food at willletterforlunch.com
Personal work
Illustrated quote from the book Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes.
Chalk lettering for a timelapse video holiday card from m:united to Microsoft.
Video production: McCann New York
Client: m:united
Lettering for the opening page and interior of Washingtonian Magazine's MOM feature article.
Client: Washingtonian Magazine
Creative Direction: Michael Goesele
Hand lettering for the anthem video for the Let's Make the Industry 50/50 Initiative, founded by ADC with a mission to bring equal gender representation to the creative industry — especially award show juries, boards of directors, and event/speaker lineups. Highlighting the wealth of qualified women in senior positions throughout all facets of the creative communications industries, the initiative and its directory are bringing important balance to the conversation and laying a foundation for future generations of female talent.
For more information and to sign the petition, visit 5050initiative.org
Client: Art Directors Club
Motion Graphics: Rachel Levine & Dorca Musseb
My lettering piece for the group typography exhibition Found in Translation, hosted by Stigma and Cognition in December 2014.
Client: Stigma and Cognition
In January 2016, I sold all of my belongings, stuffed a few sundresses and a sketchbook into a backpack, and decided to travel for the entire year. I'm planning on visiting more than 20 countries and setting foot on every continent. Since I make a living drawing the alphabet, I thought it would be pretty rad if I could fund my 26,000 mile journey around the world with the same 26 letters I hold so close to my heart.
That's where you come in, fellow explorer and type lover. I've designed a special series of travel-inspired posters for your viewing (and purchasing) pleasure. Every dollar raised through this project will go directly towards my 'round the world journey, from plane tickets to late night street snacks. Can 26 little letters really take me 26,000 miles? I have no idea, but I'd like to find out just how far they'll get me.
Check out the project at 26letters26000miles.com
Lettering and illustration for the cover of Baltimore Magazine's December 2014 issue.
Client: Baltimore Magazine
Creative Direction: Amanda White-Iseli
Lettering created for the Culinary Institute of America's New York campus to be displayed as a mural in their Student Commons building.
Client: Culinary Institute of America
Lettering for Tresemme's Tumblr campaign during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2015.
Client: Tresemme
Social media posts to promote AT&T's #X campaign encouraging millennials to stop texting while driving.
Client: AT&T & Tumblr
Help Ink is an online print store that collaborates with artists around the world to spread some positivity and raise funds for various charities through the sale of prints. I was delighted to contribute one of my favorite quotes from the poem You Learn by Jorge Luis Borges.
Client: Help Ink
Illustration and lettering for the cover of Time Out New York Kids.
Art Direction: Sarah Mulligan
Client: Time Out New York
Chalkboard collaboration between myself and Brazillian letterer Cristina Pagnocelli in my Brooklyn studio.
Dimensions: 14' x 10'
What are you really saving for? Wiggy Banks are piggy banks for adults (or people pretending to be adults). Start saving up for all the boozy, carby, mind-altering, cheesy, sexy, fried and/or bad-for-you things that make life worth living (we all know that coin jar isn't just for laundry and bus fare).
Each Wiggy Bank is hand-painted on a thrifted glass jar with lots of love and lols by yours truly.
The PERFECT holiday gift for your best friend or drunk roommate!
Check out the project at www.wiggybanks.com
In February 2014, the kind folks at TypeFight asked me to step into the ring with the letter D. This was my winning letter!
Client: TypeFight
My farewell mural to New York City and its greatest food
Videography & Editing: Bridget Badore
I started sketching out my next tattoo and loved it so much that I decided to turn it into an illustration. "Fair winds and following seas" is a nautical phrase of good luck—a blessing as it were—as the person, group, or thing it is said to departs on a voyage in life.
Illustration and lettering for the cover of TimeOut New York's issue about the friendly side of NYC.
Client: TimeOut New York
Art Direction: Sarah Mulligan
Help Ink is an online print store that collaborates with artists around the world to spread some positivity and raise funds
for various charities through the sale of prints. I was delighted to contribute one of my favorite quotes to their collection of posters. Fortune really does favor the bold.
Client: Help Ink
Animated brush lettering for Samsung Taiwan's K-JJANG video campaign.
Client: Samsung
Agency: R/GA New York
To advertise the launch of The Weather Channel's new mobile app, we reimagined how people get their daily forecast with a series of faux movie posters that promote weather that is “Coming Soon.” Designed to look like a real movie posters – a closer look revealed a forecast for the following day. These are the three posters from the series that I hand lettered.
Client: The Weather Channel
Agency: BBDO New York
Creative Direction: Hunter Fine and Peter Albores
Art Direction: Camilo De Galofre
Lettering for the January 2015 cover of Washingtonian Magazine.
Client: Washingtonian Magazine
Creative Direction: Michael Goesele
Lettering for the January feature article of TESCO's in-store magazine.
Client: TESCO
Art Direction: James Devereaux-Ward
Lettering and illustration the cover of the November 23rd Sunday Arts section of the Boston Globe.
Client: The Boston Globe
Creative Direction: Ryan Huddle
Lettering and illustration for Zzzquil's Facebook page and website.
Client: Zzzquil
Art Direction: Chad O'Connell
Agency: Publicis Kaplan Thaler
Lettering and illustration for the tasty cover of Baltimore Magazine's Cheap Eats 2014 issue.
Client: Baltimore Magazine
Creative Direction: Amanda White-Iseli
Lettering for Orange Coast Magazine's 2014 Food Lover's Guide.
Art Direction: Mindy Benham
Client: Orange Coast Magazine
I decided to paint The FLAWLESS Mirror in my studio so I could wake up like Beyonce every day.
Animated watercolor lettering for slides of my Lunch Talk at Hyperakt in April 2015.
Watch the video recap below, or read the full presentation here.
Lettering for social media posts to promore (RED)'s 2015 Eat, Drink, Save Lives campaign led by Mario Batali.
Client: (RED)
Hand-lettered invitations and save-the-dates for my good friends Alia and Jake.
Illustration and lettering for the cover of Canadian Business.
Art Direction: John Montgomery
Client: Canadian Business
Lettering and drop cap illustrations for the February issue of Los Angeles Magazine.
Client: Los Angeles Magazine
Creative Direction: Steven Banks
Chalk lettering on the wall in my studio for a photoshoot. Photographed by Jorge Quinteros
Dimensions: 4' x 6'
‘Design the future of your brand’ is the 2011/ 2012 advertising campaign for Youtube Europe. I, along with 35 other young artists, was asked to participate in creating pieces that represent Youtube Europe's 100 top sponsors. Each brand's creative director chose one word to describe what they believed to be the future of their company. For Nestle, my keyword was "life". For Galbani, my keyword was "trust".
Click here to see the gallery and hear a little bit more about the piece!
Client: YouTube
Agency: TBWA Italy & YMEE House
Lettering for the cover of Washingtonian Magazine's 2014 Best Of issue.
Client: Washingtonian Magazine
Creative Direction: Michael Goesele
Lettering and illustration for the album cover of Headin' West, Sammy Miller and the Congregation's second album. Sammy is a west coast jazz drummer, so we channeled sunny inspiration from vintage California postcards!
Client: Sammy Miller and the Congregation
I collaborated with food lettering artist Becca Clason to create these typographic illustrations of our favorite Coldstone Creamery flavors. The idea sprung from the realization that we both worked at Coldstone when we were teenagers!
