sleepy village /  2024  / digital drawing

New York African Film Festival (In progress)
2025

NYAFF’s identity system uses layered, sonar-like motifs and abstracted silhouettes to explore themes of displacement, revolt, and shifting environmental and political climates across the African diaspora.



DanceAfrica
2024 / BAM Creative Services: Kimberly Lum, Senior Designer, Stephen Smith, Senior Copywriter, Ethan Cohen, Copywriter, Joseph Barglowski, Video Editor, Yulia Ruditskaya, Animator (freelance), Rebecca Greenfield, Photographer (freelance), Laylah Barrayn, Photographer (freelance)

This electric, afro-futurist identity design uses a custom modular typeface and flexible grid system to mimic the patterns of traditional Cameroonian garments.

Selected Illustrations
People and places

J train
2022 / Self-directed

See it at BAM!
2022 / BAM Creative Services: Andrew Sloat, Creative Director, Patrick Morin, Associate Design Director, Kimberly Lum, Designer, Nora Casey, Senior Copywriter


Illustration for BAM’s film programming campaign.
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