Covers:
Newspaper:
Denver Voice: a Denver-based weekly street newspaper covering art, culture, and homelessness
Issue:
January 2026
First issue of a redesign of the Denver Voice I premiered in this issue, including a custom font based on the letters on the sign above Union Station.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
October 2021
SNAP Doesn't Supply Kitchens was a cover story on the limitations of SNAP benefits to those experiencing homelessness. Particularly, that SNAP does not allow buying pre-cooked food and most people experiencing homelessness have no accessible kitchen to cook in.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
April 2022
Technically Hate, Officially Forgotten was an award-winning investigative story I reported
covering Florida's failure to track hate-crimes against the homeless for eight years, which
it was legally mandated to do.
I tried to capture the existence, but attempted hiding, of people experiencing homelessness
through portraits ripped through the center, barely leaving anything identifying.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
August 2024
Cruel and Unusual No More covered the Supreme Court's overturning of state laws and legal precedent across the country that criminalizing sleeping outside when there was nowhere else to do was cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
February 2024
Violent Rhetoric explored how the rhetoric of Florida's politicians enflames hate towards people experiencing homeless.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
July 2021
Ocala was one of many Florida towns and cities to lose lawsuits for their laws criminalizing panhandling. I made grundgy roman pillars to capture the rock and hard place the city fell between.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
April 2021
Here. Queer. Homeless. captured the isolation and difficulty that LGBT youth faced during the first year of the pandemic. I showed the isolation by the figure being small on the page, but exaggerated by the large headline and towered brush.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
April 2023
Panhandling is often a necessary danger for those experiencing homelessness, as they have
no other consistent way of making money. Pedestrian deaths in Florida are already high, and
some living on the streets told their tales of how it's even worse for them.
I created a map of Palm Beach County, Florida — where the main source for the story panhandles —
through QGIS and open-source geographical data to bring to mind the car-dependency of Florida.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
January 2022
People experiencing homeless need to use the restroom too, but public restrooms are scarce in both New York City and Florida. Reporting from both for this piece, I wanted to explore the clashing of welcoming neon signs, and industrial, locked doors showing how only those who can pay are welcome.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
July 2020
Changing how Florida tracks mental illness in the population, including those experiencing homelessness, drastically "lowered" the rate, which affects funding, policy and more.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
October 2022
Rent control has a fraught history in Florida, and this cover story told that history as one city in particular tried to bring it back. I represented runaway rent prices through successively increasing price stickers on a dollhouse, representing the small size, yet expensive, options people have.
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
October 2023
An issue varied in reporting, I made a generalized cover using a stereotypical restaurant check to represent the litany of issues people experiencing homelessness face.
Spreads:
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
February 2024
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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April 2022
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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July 2021
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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April 2021
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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April 2023
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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August 2024
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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August 2024
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
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April 2023
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
April 2021
Newspaper:
Homeless Voice: a Florida-based quarterly street newspaper vended in all major cities in Florida
Issue:
July 2023
Branding:
Denver VOICE Hosts the International Network of Street Papers N. America Summit 2025
The Denver VOICE is a monthly street newspaper
in Denver, Colorado covering homelessness and all that entails.
Working as Art Director for the paper, I designed digital marketing and pamphlets for the 2025
INSP conference the Denver Voice hosted. The cover design took the silhouettes of various famous
buildings in the city and laid them against a dramatized backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in the
style of old travel posters.
Denver VOICE T-Shirts
Various t-shirts I designed for the Denver VOICE street newspaper in Colorado to sell and raise money. Each design incorporates their logo — an edged speech bubble with their name in it — and a slogan encouraging support of either local newspapers and journalism or homeless rights.
Books:
Worm
Worm is a first-person superhero epic by John C. “Wildbow” McCrae following Taylor, a highschool girl with the power to control bugs and other simple life-forms. It was self-published online serially from 2011-2013, concluding with a final word count of almost 1.7 million and reaching a readership of hundreds of thousands. As a personal project to learn and practice interior design, or typesetting, I decided to bring this never-published-in-print serial — and dear to me story that I have read “cover” to “cover” multiple times — to life.
Type-setting/Interior Layout
First, I decided how to split the series up. It was originally published in 30 “arcs” with multiple
“interludes” between each, and each “arc” broken up into sections. Across “arcs” are story arcs within
themselves which I used as the basis to break the serial up into five books — each about eight “arcs”
long — titled by the various names the main character takes across the series: Taylor, Skitter, Warlord,
Weaver, and Khepri. Chapters are represented by the “arcs” with custom cockroach bullets separating the
author’s originally published sections.
With the length of the series, I knew each book would stretch even fantasy length, so I chose 6″x9″
hardcover as the industry standard size to use. In the end it came out to about 700 pages through
setting the book font (Adobe Garamond Pro for legibility and a classic look) to 11pt with 13pt spacing
giving 40 lines per page and around 500 words. To give breathing space for the reader’s eyes and
adequate binding and printing space, I set the top margin to 0.5 in, bottom and outside to 0.75 in
and inside to 0.875 in. I chose the font for the headers, titles and most of the front matter as
TT Modernoir for its art deco feel, matching the golden age of superheroes that Worm tries to recreate,
along with the dark of such a world.
The beginnings of “Arcs” and “Interludes” were given unique chapter pages to separate the two types
from each other, continuing the title page’s bug theme.
Next, I acquired a crudely made EPUB containing the series broken up by “arc” and “interlude” including
the author’s original formatting like italic emphasis and indenting for computer screen text or internal
thoughts. I created a Word document from the EPUB and changed all italics to an italic styling instead
of font-specific, allowing me to export and place this text into Indesign and adapt into an Indesign
charactor style without losing any of the author’s original formatting.
All text within the book is set by paragraph and character styles to be consistent and allow efficient
design changes and updates, including all spacing — there are no doubled hard or soft breaks. Each
“arc” and “interlude” is saved as a separate Indesign document managed by an Indesign Book file.
The front matter includes an initial title page, series list, secondary title page, matching copyright
page and contents page, and numbered with roman numerals with the first “arc” title page constituting
page 1. I also aligned all text to a grid to keep lines consistently even.
EPUB
In addition to typesetting the serial, I also designed a reflowable EPUB. Exporting initially from InDesign, I edited the EPUB in Sigil — an open-source EPUB editor — modifying, fixing and simplifying CSS and HTML consistency and formatting issues.