montserrat design
design senior projects, ca 1998-2020

2007  <   2008   >   2009

			Meagan Bruce Michael Kahan Justin Rello
			Sonya Shelton Laura Stopa Steven Trevathan
			Emily Warwick

 

• Meagan Bruce
  The Clothing Bar

  company identity, and T-shirt designs for adults, young adults, toddlers. also, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, foods
  thumbnail image above : Cookies Galore, shirt design for company called The Clothing Bar

  current —
  Senior Graphic Artist at The Eagle-Tribune

• Michael Kahan
  vocation

  Michael Kahan printed on many envelopes, each containing a photograph of a different person, and a different “vocation” that is partially homophonous with the name “Kahan.”

  formats —
  letterpress, multiple media, installation, etc.
  thumbnail image above : a passage from Marc C. Taylor’s “Erring” on one’s name and the task of vocation (“the task of a lifetime”).

  current —
  senior designer, Cypress Grove
  @kahantext

• Justin Rello
  Out / Lines : A Collection of Fragments

  Stories (based upon events in author’s life), presented with “possible relevant items,” i.e., evidence.

  story titles —
  A Bump in the Road
  The Ride Home that No One Remembers
  Tick, Tick, Tick
  You’re Gonna Get the Horns
  Slick
  Afternoon Cruise
  The Wrong Side of the Tracks
  The Ride Home that Everyone Remembers
  The Almost Empty House.

  thumbnail image above : detail from “The Bump in the Road,” and possibly related evidence, from installation in Human Presence show, November 2007.

  formats —
  book of (typewritten) stories, and book containing photographed evidence therein referred to.

• Sonya Shelton
  HIV / AIDS Awareness Campaign

  posters, gallery installation, involving text and image pairings. Some straight photography, also vectorized images.
  thumbnail image above : “Not everyone carries a card.” / Addict (detail of poster)

• Laura Stopa
  Mirrors

  Mirrors in Myth, Superstition, Fairytale, and Modern Day References
  research, image development, book design

  current —
  Senior designer at Market Mentors

• Steven Trevathan
  Juxta Crucem

  visual poetry
  textual and typographic experimentation; digital and letterpress. installation.

  My brother and I would follow my father and uncle into the woods to look through telescopes. The times we’ve spent looking at the clear, cold night skies are dear to me, as they were group excursions of astral wonder with my family... In remembering those and my recent acts of star gazing, I’ve attempted to formulate images with ideas and become somewhat of a poet.
  image : detail, installation done on letterpress
  (to / state / tone / gallows / or / a / greater)

  current —
  Co-CEO, make&model (experience design studio)

• Emily (Warwick) Amirault
  Dreams

  One idea that I had for my project came about by experimenting with overlapping layers of text. The text was made up of excerpts from some of the descriptions that I received from my peers. By overlapping the dreams but leaving some parts legible, I felt that the artwork reflected the confusing and nonlinear storylines in dreams.
  I began focusing more on photographing subjects that interested me and that felt dreamlike. I created several collaged images of that quality using older and more recent photos I’d taken. The manipulated and original digital photographs were not used to represent specific dreams.