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Hi! I’m a designer, illustrator and screen printer in Portland, Oregon—steeped in skateboarding and music culture, I love print media, DIY publishing and building creative community, and I approach design as an art practice.

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BOYS DO CRY

Graphic Design for Apparel
Boys Do Cry is a t-shirt design-and-screen-printing practice that uses bootleg imagery to examine masculinity and gender through the lens of duality: sacred yet profane, it reminds us to stay soft and tough at the same time.






Boys Do Cry is a t-shirt design-and-screen-printing practice that examines gender and masculinity through pop culture, bootleg imagery, and music culture. Through themes of duality (angels & demons, sacred & profane, masculine and feminine) it reminds us to stay soft and not forget the songs that made us cry.




I created seasonal collections of shirt graphics, each with a distinct feel from the others, while being aligned with the core identity and narrative of the brand.

The combination of message, aesthetics and humor resonated with an overlapping Venn diagram of people, including the trans community, skateboarders, and artists.






The “Don’t Honk at Me...” bumper sticker unexpectedly took on a life of it’s own, even being reproduced as part of an installation by artist Alex Lukas at Printed Matter’s 2025 LA Art Book fair.


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