F Train

“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” 
– William Thackeray

Light in the garage

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates
the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy

Sutro Heights

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”  – Alfred Stieglitz

Argentina

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. – Edward Weston

Chains at Golden Gate

“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame.
When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”  – Garry Winogrand

Christine

“When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.”  – Jean-Luc Godard

Palace of FIne Arts

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.” – David Alan Harvey

Ireland

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.” 
– Annie Leibovitz

Wrought Iron Dream

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”  – Wayne Miller

Seaside

“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”  – Steven Pinker

Flying downtown

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”  – Dorothea Lange

Daisies in San Francisco

“What makes a photograph a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”  – John Berger

Vermont Dock

““Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair
to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

Innocent moment

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”  – Yousuf Karsh

Portrait of an eight year old

 “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.” – Edward Steichen

Dandelion perspective

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found
it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” – Elliott Erwitt

California flower

“Photography is a love affair with life.”  – Burk Uzzle

Girlhood

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”  – Dorothea Lange

Specially picked portrait

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”  – Robert Frank

Corporate Headshots - Richman Law Group

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like; it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” 
– Paul Caponigro

Corporate Headshots - Royal Printing Service

“Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.”

– Scott Bourne

Trail Express logo

“Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity.”
– Maggie Macnab

Parkway Iron & Metal logo

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” – Milton Glaser

Parkstein logo

“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” – Paul Rand

A painting service logo

“I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.”  – Lindon Leader

Mason Family Civic League logo

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.”  – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Logo for Doula services

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That’s my intent.”  – Saul Bass

Logo for Doula services

“Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano

Logo for a Childbirth Educator

“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”  – Jeffrey Zeldman

Logo for a charitable organization

“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design.”
 – Stefan Sagmeister

Logo for a charitable organization

“A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around.”   – Paul Rand

Logo for a designer

“But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own,
 as something that is personal, the more successful it is.” – Marian Bantjes

Collected drawings 2

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”  – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Collected drawings 3

"Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?"   – Paul Gauguin

Collected drawings 4

"Just put a mark of paint on the canvas and let yourself carry on directed by hidden instinct. That takes courage.
To control but yet not to control."  – Moncy Barbour

Collected drawings 5

"All art requires courage." – Anne Tucker

Business Cards for a Calligrapher

“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.” – Pierre Bonnard

Logo, Business Cards, Envelope, and Gift Certificate for a Hair Salon

“Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.”  – Joe Sparano

Business Cards for a Mechanic

“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”  – Nolan Bushnell

Direct Mail & DVD Case Art for Filmmaker

“Design is a formal response to a strategic question.”  – Mariona Lopez

Direct Mail & Web Ad for a Cooperative of Filmmakers

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”
– Adrian Forty

Direct Mail for an Art Opening

“Waste is a design flaw.”  – Kate Krebs

missedconceptionsthefilm.com

squeezethestone.com

holdthesoup.com

sescil.com

nachtdesign.com

Poster for Law Firm

“Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs.”
– Debbie Millman

Commemorative Poster for President and Governor alliance

“Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts.” – Jan Tschichold

Poster for Art Exhibit

"If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work
for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.” – Michael Bierut

Poster for High School Sports Team

“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.” – Massimo Vignelli

40 Page Film Brochure for New Day Films

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, design is how it works.”  – Steve Jobs

48 Page Study Guide for Tami Gold's Film 'Passionate Politics' and Rutgers University

“Do not seek praise, seek criticism.” – Paul Arden