Role: Senior Design Director

In 2018, after a healthy seven years of a brand aesthetic that worked well but had grown unwieldy with variation, the Brand Creative team at Comedy Central was challenged to simplify and develop new tools and elements for the brand to assume a more premium presence across all platforms. As Senior Design Director overseeing digital for the brand, and partnering with Loyal Kaspar to develop the new package, we reinvigorated our logo and “C Mark” for use in specific spaces, designed a proprietary type family, and developed systematic layouts for all our platforms from broadcast to mobile.

In developing the primary systems with the VP of Design, I lead a team of designers to create formatted templates for various social spaces including Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, created simplified systems for episodic content for social, constructed promo end slates and MOGRTs for various aspect ratios, and oversaw all daily production for the brand across every platform we occupied. Compiling all these elements into a digital-specific style guide, I worked with every department creating content for social spaces to help ensure the new brand style were implemented as intended.

Additionally, any new digital environment Comedy Central ventured towards, I was key in ensuring the brand made sense in the new launch spaces. These included Comedy Central Now on Amazon, AppleTV and ROKU, the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service PlutoTV, Podcast and radio services, and brand properties including CC Stand-Up, CC Roast, CC Creators Program, and many others.

Role: Lead Designer

Beginning as two separate campaigns, The Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive were the Daily Show's and The Colbert Report's response to a Glenn Beck Rally held in 2010. The show centered around a live show platform in DC featuring various comedy, music and entertainment celebrities to bring awareness to a larger audience across the country following years of divisiveness as a result of the Great Recession in 2008. 

As Lead Designer with the Multiplatform group at Comedy Central, I created the original poster designs featured during the initial announcements on each of the shows, as well as all of the digital marketing, social and O&O spaces including a custom website, and also helped art direct a mobile app for use on the day of the event.

Role: Designer

Working closely with Futurama show creators and the Multiplatform Art Director at Comedy Central, I provided character and background illustrations, UX/UI and production design within the app. I was also responsible for creating and overseeing art direction with other designers on the team to execute marketing materials to promote the app.

Role: Art Director

As Art Director for one of the initial launch properties on the Snapchat platform in 2014, I created original branded design templates and custom art for Comedy Central's Snapchat Discover experience. Overseeing a team of designers from the initial launch, I guided the brand’s presence through multiple redesigns, while creative direction was shared between the Editorial Director, Creative Director of Video and myself. This responsibility not only put me in charge of design direction but also influencing and guiding video and set decoration, overseeing motion design and animation, editorial considerations and programming initiatives. 

Role: Art Director

Several years in the making, the Season 5 Red Band Trailer for Workaholics was a feat of truly mind blowing proportions. Essentially an action movie production, the promos for WHXS5 were literally explosive, sexually charged and action packed. Working closely with the Brand Creative team, I lead art direction for a custom Tumblr site designed to be visually representative and engaging of all the things the trailer was meant to be. Featuring video clips, remix tools, production stills and a customizable GIF creator, we created an interactive experience that breathed life beyond the promos on TV, bring the experience to digital and social spaces. 

Role: Creative Lead, Designer

Friends, family members and colleagues have occasionally asked me to design promotional marketing and related in-show materials for live events and show, which usually comes with a resounding "yes!" Truly a labor of love.

Role: Designer, Art Director

I had various roles as a Designer and eventually Senior Design Director for Comedy Central’s main website cc.com from 2007 to 2020. At the beginning of my time with Comedy Central, I was largely responsible for production aspects of upkeep, working with graphics sprites, font and color updates and various show, seasonal and thematic integration. 

Over the course of the years, the site expanded significantly – adding video clips and full episodes for most shows on the network, and eventually became the current responsive space for use on all devices. Working closely with the Site Production, Brand Creative and Product Development teams, I had my hands deep in site production, CSS and HTML, created new interface designs and established graphics templates for production designers to utilize. 

By the end of my time with Comedy Central, I was working closely with various other departments to ensure brand guidelines were met for consistency with our 2018 Brand Refresh.

Role: Designer, Art Director

TheDailyShow.com was a true harbinger of what was to come for television. A stand alone site from cc.com, The Daily Show vertical experience was one of the first digital destinations that hosted the near complete run of a series online, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Alongside one additional web designer and a production artist, I was in responsible for the initial builds of the site from 2008, and eventually the sole designer in charge of refresh, updates and art direction through the series' eventual host turnover in 2015. 

Similarly and always the companion to Jon Stewart's outspoken voice, but clearly a character standing on his own, Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report followed suit by having its own vertical show experience online. I was the sole graphic designer under the Art Director responsible for design and upkeep of ColbertNation.com, eventually leading art direction through the show's finale in 2015.

Both show sites underwent several phases of redesign and featured various stunts, thematic updates based on seasons and show initiatives, and expanded to the responsive realm of web design in 2012. In keeping up with the changing digital spaces and upgrades, they also each benefitted from having several mobile app experiences, from the Daily Show Digest and the Colbert Word and Nation apps, which featured recent show clips and extended interviews, exclusive content and other show specific fan engagement materials. 

Role: Designer, Art Director

Collaborating with another designer and the Creative Director at Comedy Central Digital Media in 2009, we established a fresh look for the then recently obtained Jokes.com to feature a wide variety of comedian-based and original joke content. Acting as primary UX designer, my role was to develop and apply the styles informed by the logo design to the page through various formats and phases. I was also responsible for creating original iconography for the site and eventually overseeing art directing of the next incarnation, which was refreshed in 2012 and again in 2018. As of 2020 jokes.com redirects to Comedy Central Stand-Up’s YouTube profile.

Role: Writer, Musician, Editor, Designer

An ongoing personal project, I have been recording music and creating accompanying artwork as Interspace Recording Division (and a few other project-specific names) since 2000. As a form of artistic expression, I've accompanied every album or project with a required visual and usually physical component to compliment the creation of organized sound. The eventual emergence and recognition of repeating motifs, patterns, type and color choices has helped me better understand and focus my own preferences and direction as a designer and musician.

Role: Designer

As an evolution to the 2011 Comedy Central Design Refresh, I was tasked in updating the overall look of what was previously and primarily The Daily Show's Indecision platform to a more streamlined and Comedy Central brand-centric motif. Removing stylistic elements of news-network gloss, bevels and excessive extrusion, the new designs were applied to digital spaces such as the regularly updated website, blog and social profiles.