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About Me

Hey! My name is Justin, and I'm a designer from North Texas. I've always been a music lover, which greatly influenced how I spent my time in Denton and my early growth as a designer. For the past few years, I have been exploring an interest in screen printing. I hope to continue making physical pieces and working with musicians and local artists to impact further how people come together and celebrate each other after graduation. In my first year of classes, two design systems forever changed my thoughts on design: the Neue Grafik journal covers and RAYGUN magazine. Since then, I've been interested in incorporating the pleasing rigidity and grids of the International Typographic Style with the emotional rawness and freedom of “grunge design” in my work. It has taught me that learning the rules is important because you realize they are fake and only apply if you want them to.

What's on your designer playlist?

I'm big on albums with lots of prog rock, but the Big Three for Design Atmosphere at UNT have been the Atoms for Peace album, Thom Yorke's The Eraser, and Flea's Helen Burns EP. And so much Guided by Voices