Motion Reel 2020
Music: Killrude–Raining
All work created while currently employed by NBC Universal. Current position is Motion Graphics/Video Creator for the Late Night Digital team (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon).
Responsible for designing digital content, video editing, looping animations, and graphics which are used across all digital platforms.
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All work created while currently employed by NBC Universal. Current position is Motion Graphics/Video Creator for the Late Night Digital team (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon).
Responsible for designing digital content, video editing, looping animations, and graphics which are used across all digital platforms.
© NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
All work was created while employed by NBC Universal.As senior motion designer for the Late Night Digital team (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon).
As lead designer for Late Night with Seth Meyers, I am responsible for designing digital content, video editing, looping animations, and graphics which are used across all digital platforms.
© NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
A dream come true! I got an amazing opportunity to work with the design team at JPL/NASA. I was tasked with bringing some fun characters to life through animation. This work was featured as an activation at the 2023 San Deigo Comic-Con.
Art Direction & Design: Joby
Character Design: Janet Y. Lin
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung across the galaxy onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, out in the cosmos while battling the dangers of these strange worlds.
Late Night Storytime is a Late Night with Seth Meyers animated digital series that puts a comedic spin on fictional stories about very real topical news. And now the story of…
Stories by the show’s writers, voiced by Seth Meyers and others, designed and created by the NBC Late Night Digital team.
Illustration: Riley Donahue
Small batch mezcal crafted for the community by master mezcaleros.
Husband and wife duo Rachel and Noel opened El Refugio in 2016 to share the incredible mezcals they had discovered in villages across Mexico with their friends and family.
In March, as a result of the global health crisis, El Refugio had to close its doors. Their hope is to reopen in a new, more spacious location in November to continue sharing their passion for these rare mezcals and the culture that brings them into being. To achieve that, they’re bottling up the last—and best—of their stock.
INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN
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Credits:
Director: Josh Hill
Strategy Director: Cristina Ferrari
Design Director: Adam Lehman
Motion Graphics & Video Editing: Josh Hill
Storytelling: Cristina Ferrari
Brand Strategy & Design: Dragon Rouge NY
Videography: Ricardo Madrazo
Photography: Rachel Glueck & Meg Patterson
Hilton Worldwide is an American multinational hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and resorts. Founded by Conrad Hilton in May 1919, the corporation is now led by Christopher J. Nassetta. Hilton is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, United States.
Senior capstone project from the University of Cincinnati College of design.
Problem Space
We as human beings are inherently curious about the world around us, and many of the inventions we take for granted every day were discovered because we went to space. Yet currently in the US only half a penny from every tax dollar is spent on space programs. Imagine how many more breakthroughs in science and technology we could uncover with more support and funding from you.
It’s time to refuel humanity’s passion and support for space exploration by continuing on the quest for knowledge.
Design Criteria (why an animated video)
This video is the first step at inspiring the audience to take action, become more educated on the facts, and learn more about space exploration. Animation has the ability to show our universe in a way not typically seen with images from telescopes and allows the story to be told in a more artistic visual way. The design goal was to inspire, captivate, and drive support for space exploration, which is a vital part of humanity’s current and future existence.
Narrated by: Ross Huguet
Student Gold Winner 2015-2016 ADDY Award: Elements of Advertising-Animation or Special Effects.
Objective: Visualize a process or concept in a succinct, understandable and well-designed way.
I love space! Also FUI, anything with lots of numbers, type, grids, gauges and things that blink. I wanted to challenge myself by compositing 3D and 2D elements together with special effects. For my subject, I chose to explain the process and other technical aspects of the space shuttle Atlantis. I wanted to create a futuristic video that could be part of a NASA museum exhibit. I incorporated FUI screens over my interpretation of a live feed of a shuttle hovering in a hanger. I did initial research gathering all of the facts about the shuttle presented in the video and then developed a script for the VO which was recorded from a text to speech program.
Length: 1 minute, 55 seconds
Student project: The assignment was to select a television station, and use their current identity and brand guidelines to design a 30-second animated bumper.
The identity I chose was IFC, their programming ranges from original comedies to cult films of all genres. Their branding is bold, impactful, and always slightly off. I wanted to feature upcoming shows using high-quality still images and then quick cuts featuring funny clips within the shows. I recreated their IFC logo and animated it in Cinema 4D, and did final compositing in After Effects.
Length: 30 seconds
The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting over 40,000 entries every year in local AAF Club (Ad Club) competitions.
While working at Lightborne, I was responsible for creating all the visual content for the AAF CincinnADDYs Award Show. My work established a look, tone, feel and organized layout thatdelivered all content consistently across award categories. I designed and animated the opening titles, and created looping animations and videos for each winner in all award categories.
I was also a Student Gold Winner with my entry "The Space Shuttle Atlantis" in the category Elements of Advertising-Animation or Special Effects and received a People’s Choice Award nomination for “Hopscotch.”
20 years of The Women's Interagency HIV Study in Chicago
WIHS, Chicago + University of Illinois at Chicago
For BS I created a number of digital abstract loops for the BS websites specific pages along with and intro animation splash page.
SugarCreek is a $650 Million food manufacturing company in Cincinnati. I was hired to create a brand video celebrating their 50th anniversary.
Introducing The Method by Nutrition Stripped
My role was to create an intro & outro logo title animation for a series of videos, included in The Method program.
Learn more at NutritionStripped.com
I was approached by the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Hamilton County to redesign their twenty year old, overcomplicated brand logo.
The newly designed logo simplifies and modernizes the brand. It utilizes overlapping and interlocking circles which symbolize the constant cycle of recovery and the comprehensive access to service providers, with the Hamilton County MHRS board at the center of it all.
The typography is a clean, modern sans-serif that updates the logo and improves readability when viewed at a small scale. The colors are varied shades of blue and red, signifying stability, a sense of calm, and a welcoming feeling.
MHRS Logo Guidelines
HCMHRSB.org
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"When we needed to update our logo in a short time period, Josh’s creativity and desire to meet our expectations made him the ideal graphic designer to create a corporate logo that perfectly conveys the strong yet caring image we needed to symbolize our identity. He grasped our needs and brought forward several superb designs in a timely manner. After gathering feedback, he quickly responded with next iterations or modifications that further refined our unique vision. He has been outstanding to work with all the way from the first contact through completion of the final exquisite design."
Patrick Tribbe
President/CEO
Hamilton County MHRSB
Entrepreneurs Lauren Farquhar and Josh Jansen called on me to create a brand identity and business cards for their new business venture: Storied Homes. My work was inspired by their mission to remodel homes with character and uncover the stories they lost, so that new home owners can write the next chapter.
After rounds of exploration, the finished brand identity merges old and new with a modern, slightly abstract take on a traditional feather quill. Consistent line weights and angles create a simple but solid logo. This mark is versatile, and can be interpreted in multiple ways: as a 2-dimensional flat quill pointing downward into an open book. Or it can be seen is as a 3-dimensional multi-story building, poised atop a solid foundation.
This logo has the advantages of being simple, clean and recognizable, and works well in both large and small-scale applications.
Genre: Drama, Suspense, Adventure
Music: Josh Hill
Student project: Each student was given a title and list of actors/roles, we were then free to interpret the story and genre in our own way.
Synopsis
When a 12-year-old boy solves a mathematical equation that proves the theory of space-time jumping.
The year is 2020, a young 12 year old boy is playing in a park near his home, located on the upper east side of New York City. The young boy is Jules Everett, (Julio Brannon) he is a very quiet boy and keeps mostly to himself. Although Jules never pays much attention in class during school, he has an uncanny affinity for numbers mathematics and the ability to understand complex theories. While sitting in Science class one day, lost in his own world, Jules sat there scribbling down equations and calculations, which looks like nonsense to the average person. His teacher Mr. Vernon, (Nick Gambroll) was walking around the classroom when he noticed the Jules’ scribbles. As he looked closer he saw something remarkable yet familiar, the boy had figured out the missing link to an equation he and a team at NASA had been working on for several years. Mr. Vernon does contract work with NASA from time to time. The team has been working on a secret project code named “Hopscotch,” a spaceship that in theory will take a single passenger into space, and using a devised equation will jump through space. Bringing space-time to a single point and instantly traveling to another point in the universe, more commonly referred to as time jumping.
With the finished equation completed by Jules, NASA is ready for the mission. They send Becka Travern (Janyce Denzer) into space on a 30-day mission. She is to jump to coordinates in space and record her exploration. She comes back to earth, and is greeted by Jules’ son Samuel, who is now 65 years old. The year is 2099.
Nominated for the AAF CincinnADDY 2015-2016 People’s Choice Award.
Length: 1 minute, 49 seconds
To tell the story of FRCH’s internal brand launch, I designed, edited and created a motion piece that captures the energy of the initiative from start to finish. Spanning four months of work, this video is a concise representation of the comprehensive project and innovative approach to launching a new brand.
I was also involved with the implementation of the winning design challenge Framed at MidPoint. My role was primary designer responsible for the overall brand logo, print collateral, and environmental graphics.
Utilizing typographic theories and principles, I assessed WIRED magazine’s design system to understand their audience, tone of voice, and style. As part of a student project, I considered form, structure, and style to create a new word mark and several page spreads for the magazine that communicates a modern, tech-forward point of view that nods towards a new visual language.
