I had the good fortune to work on The Simpson's style guide: a sprawling binder of art and product ideas that is given to manufacturers who sign up to license The Simpson's brand for clothing lines, toys, and posters. Here is an information-packed timeline of Simpson pop culture.
This is the most famous thing I've designed. The original work was for the cover of The Simpsons Style Guide, a giant binder of artwork and merchandize ideas Fox supplied to vendors who signed up to be licensees. I've had some weird moments related to my Simpson's work. My brother bought the poster for my son for his 14th birthday not knowing I designed it. My sister, Lisa, bought a Simpson's bookmark that said Lisa even if you turn it upside down. I had been doing ambigrams for years. She said, 'Michael, they stole your idea.' She didn't know I designed the bookmark. A guy at a startup I worked at had a lunch pail with the poster image. When I mention I designed it, people look at me like, 'Yeah, right.' Matt Groening was nice enough to send over signed posters for everyone who worked on the project.
The Game was PolyGram's first feature film with their name on it and they wanted to make a splash. This movie premiere invitation is made of five puzzle cards and an invite wrapped in a clover-shaped envelope that folds open to reveal a maze of visuals from the movie. After the invites went out, James Cameron called the studio to ask who designed the piece.
Illustration and typography for a Disney movie that was a take on Mark Twain's story, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'.
For this project for Lucas Arts, I took an existing font and manipulated the forms and added a rough-hewn bevel. The background was made from soil, fire, and a ruler from stock images.
My girlfriend Kiki is a photographer. I took a picture she took of her dog Suki and combined it with a picture she took of Jesse. I wanted the typography to be a little scary but also childlike and playful.
I am a Ux and Ui expert with skills in design, illustration, information design and brand building. I specialize in making the complex easy.
