As an undergraduate Visual Arts major at Columbia University, I ended up focusing a lot of my scholarship on printmaking—intaglio(etching), bookmaking, and silkscreen, mostly—and naturally ended up spending a great deal of time in the printshop located in the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.

I was lucky enough to study under extraordinary artists such as Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Martin Basher, Nicola Lopez, and most extensively with Tomas Vu, the artistic director of the LeRoy Neiman Center.

After graduation, I kept in touch with some of the folks who worked at the printshop, so they were aware of how my career was developing, and when it was time to revamp their website in the Spring of 2006, they reached out to me to lead the design effort.

They sent me a 3 page brief with the general Information Architecture of the site, plus a few reference... Read more