I also design posters and advertisements, make digital games accessible to the visually impaired, manage crowdfunding projects, create brand identities and marketing plans, and very occassionally write things.
Layout / Design
Art Direction
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Brand Identity
PDF Remediation
Marketing / Social Media
+ consultation for all above
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The Demon Collective, Vol. 1
Magical Industrial Revolution
Libreté + Fleur Du Mall
Lorn Song of the Bachelor
ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
ARCventure Series
BX: A Cipher Universe
Gangs of Titan City
The Monster Overhaul
Old School Essentials
Eat the Reich
Moonlight on Roseville Beach
Social Media Management
Throne of Avarice
Cairn 2E Boxed Set
INEVITABLE
MOTHERSHIP 1E Deluxe Set
GMDK
Skerples
GMDK
Exalted Funeral
Free League Publishing
Exalted Funeral
Dreamyard NYC
SoulMuppet Publishing
Skerples
Necrotic Gnome
Rowan, Rook, & Deckard
R. Rook Studio
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Tuesday Knight Games
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Project Management
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Crowdfunding
PDF Remediation
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
A5 softcover, 52pp
Published by Hydra Cooperative
2020
In 2020 Humza Kazmi of the Hydra Cooperative commissioned me to design the book Lorn Song of the Bachelor, a riverine adventure and dungeon crawl module inspired by the crocodile stories of Southeast Asia. I was already well-acquainted with writer Zedeck Siew’s work and consider him a good friend, and the artwork from illustrator Nadhir Nor took my breath away. I accepted.
The book went through several prototypes before we landed on a design that everyone was happy with. The first was a fairly conventional two-column layout, maximizing information density and at-the-table usability. However, this clashed significantly with Nor’s artwork, which necessitated a much airier design. and the switching to a single-column layout except in a few isolated areas. The font used for headers, Metallophile Sp8, was chosen to compliment this art, as its uneven strokes and faintly humanistic shapes recall the sort of hand-painted signs one sees with no small frequency in Malaysia.
Paired with Metallophile is the typeface Maiola, used for all body copy. This is an eminently readable typeface with just enough calligraphic flourishes to be interesting, and I find its razor-tipped serifs give text set in it a certain sense of danger and urgency — perfect for when you’re being chased by a giant crocodile down a raging river.
Written by Zedeck Siew.
Illustrated by Nadhir Nor.
Cartography by Karl Stjernberg.
Editing, Development and Proofreading by Humza Kazmi and Fiona Maeve Geist.
Design by Dai Shugars.