I created a suite of social content for For All Mankind, a show that launched with Apple’s new streaming service, Apple TV+. FAM depicts an alternate history in which Russia is the first country to land on the moon, spurring the US to accomplish astronomic feats of their own, including creating a team of female astronauts. One of the more notable pieces of content, chiefly shown here, are “alternate history quotes,” which use the art and iconography of NASA in the late 60s and 70s to create custom, eye-catching bits of content.

In the fall of 2017, I was among a handful of artists chosen by GIPHY to create a custom pack of GIPHY Stickers, which have since become ubiquitous in Instagram Stories and elsewhere. For my pack, I created a series of fun and simple animations in a playful 8-bit pixel style, which I thought would work well for all sorts of Instagram users. I wasn’t wrong – to date, my stickers have racked up nearly 4 billion views.

This personal piece was inspired by the gorgeously campy graphics of roadside signage I saw on a recent trip to Ocean City, MD. (“Benno,” a childhood nickname, is my nom de plume for personal projects.)

Another pattern I made. You like it?

I based this pattern off shapes I often find myself idly drawing in notebooks (which can probably be said of pretty much all of the patterns I make). After drawing the initial shapes by hand, I refined them in Adobe Illustrator, but still tried to maintain a certain organic, imperfect feel. Then I created a few variations based on the original.

This was one of my first attempts at designing using only pixels, or small blocks of color. I enjoy the challenge of being limited to pixels, and especially the resulting style, which is reminiscent of early video-games.

A former coworker of mine, along with other friends of his from the marketing world, recently launched The Auxiliary, an agency based entirely on combatting covid-19 misinformation. To help them get the word out, as well as to entice investors, I created a number of motion graphics that highlight the urgency and immediacy of their work.

This pattern was vaguely inspired by the wallpaper I remember decorating the office of my pediatrician. It also calls to mind Sesame Street of the 70s and 80s, though I doubt it has any real educational value.

I don’t know why I gave this the name “Automatic Music Machine,” but it just came to me. I do know that I love the simplicity of early computer graphics and messing around with pixels

This was one of my first attempts at designing using only pixels, or small blocks of color. I enjoy the challenge of being limited to pixels, and especially the resulting style, which is reminiscent of early video-games.