For Gatorade's 2025 MLB Opening Day creative, the art direction centers on the unsung hero of baseball, the groundskeeper. The campaign captures the meticulous preparation and dedication required to ready the field for the season's first pitch. Through cinematic visuals and authentic storytelling, it highlights the groundskeeper's role in setting the stage for the game's return, embodying the spirit of Opening Day and Gatorade's commitment to those who fuel the sport from behind the scenes.
I supported the team with video production, editing and framing resulting in a social first video posted across Gatorades channels.
Creative Director: Ernest Baker
Associate Creative Director: Mike Gallegos
Senior Copy Writer: Chandler Carroll
As the Senior Art Director, I led the creative vision and execution of the Luka Dončić Gatorade bottle drop social media campaign. I collaborated closely with Luka’s team and the client Gatorade, to visually translate his "Let The Work Talk" ethos into eye-catching social content. I partnered with the ACD and motion designer to make sure his dedication to the game was reflected throughout the campaign.
Associate Creative Director: Mike Gallegos
Motion Graphics Designer: Dylan Padilla
Designer: Kylie Agon
As part of the Gatorade National Player of the Year program, I was lucky enough to help surprise top high school athletes on their home turf and bring their stories to life. I led the art direction from concept through on location execution, ensuring visual consistency across all deliverables while also focusing on client management.
I feel super grateful to have been a part of the project and able to highlight these top athletes as they enter the next phase of their athletic career!
Athletes: Konnor Griffin (baseball), Ransford Gyan (soccer)
Photographer: Joe Greer
Social Media Manager: Carmen Dittoe
Content Creator: Jeremiah Fuentes
Ahead of the 2024 tax season, I had the pleasure of helping TurboTax identify emerging digital artists to create vibrant, youthful and eye-catching illustrations. I established comprehensive brand guidelines, led art direction, and assembled a team of illustrators to execute the vision. My hands-on guidance and feedback ensured that all work aligned with the brand identity, culminating in a cohesive and impactful final product utilized across their social channels.
As an illustrator myself, I feel super lucky to have been able to work on this project and highlight these incredibly talented creatives.
Illustrators: Chandni Poddar, Kelsey Robinson, Dylan Padilla, John Lee and Ash Suh
In preparation for 2024's tax season, I led the creative vision for a collaborative project with former Bachelorette Tayshia Adams and nail artist Stephany Torres.
I oversaw concept development, art direction, set design, wardrobe, host talent selection, shot list management, and photographer choice. I also partnered with a content creator on video capture and editing, to ensure a polished, on-brand final product.
I had the opportunity to collaborate with Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye to discuss tax tips and their side business, Yummers.
I led the creative vision from initial concept to final execution, overseeing all aspects of visual storytelling, including art direction, wardrobe, and set design. With the support of our in-house production team, we produced content for both TurboTax and the talents' social media channels.
I had the opportunity to bring Timberland's 2023 Social Playbook and 50th-anniversary campaign to life by leading the development of creative visual guidelines for implementation across owned social channels.
I owned and led the development of a distinctive look and feel and tone of voice for the brand, while taking into account how these guidelines would be used across both static and video assets.
During my time designing at Esquire magazine, I was also able to write a few articles for their website focusing on exclusive sneaker releases.
For this article, I was lucky enough to interview the legendary skater Brian Anderson about the new Nike SB 'Polaroid' Dunk, while also art directing and photographing him where he's most at home, at the skate park.
I led the creative concept development, look and feel and visual execution for the House of Hoops "In Her Eyes" WNBA campaign, which highlighted the impact of the WNBA on three Chicago natives and their community. After pitching and aligning on this concept with the client, Foot Locker, I was also responsible for location scouting, shot lists development and influencer talent. The final campaign images were used across all social channels.
I owned the concept development, art direction and full shoot development for the House of Hoops "Where the Game Lives" campaign, introducing Kevin Durant's 14th signature shoe with Nike.
Without any paid support, the spots gained a total reach on Instagram of 56.8K with the engagement rate of our hero film performing 23.8% above benchmark.
For the second installment of the Zion Williamson’s Big Z Campaign, I had the privilege of working as the Senior Art Director to lead the concept design, wardrobe, production, set design and shot list for the shoot. This content was utilized across social channels.
As the Senior Art Director on this campaign, I led the concept development, graphic design and on the ground photo and video capture for the LVMH Hennessy’s brand ambassador, Canelo Álvarez fight.
A selection of top-performing social media assets I art directed, concepted and led motion and graphic design for that were utilized across Footlocker's House of Hoops Instagram.
Designers: Alex Kirsch and Kiery West
Freelance work for Nike Jordan Brand. I designed and illustrated lead art for the Air Jordan III “Animal Instincts 2.0” sneaker release story.
I had the pleasure of interviewing, writing and photographing Oskar Smolokowski, the CEO of Polaroid Originals, for Vayner Media.
I concepted, storyboarded, and led on the ground art direction for celebrity shoots for cover stories across Vayner Media and Gallery Media Group featuring Mario, Mya, and Wyclef Jean.
I wrote, art directed, and photographed exclusive article for Esquire.com reviewing Virgil Abloh’s “The Ten” Off-White x Converse.
Freelance work I created for Adidas. I designed and built the motion graphic for Adidas Originals NHL 2018 Jerseys announcement on Instagram.
During a very exciting time at Complex, I was lucky enough to design the social announcements for artists joining the roster of performers at the inaugural ComplexCon.
Creative direction led by Takashi Murakami and Brent Rollins.