A collection of matchbook-inspired illustrations featuring fictional businesses, local attractions, and memorable characters. Inspired by vintage advertising, printed ephemera, roadside signage, and classic matchbook cover art.

A hand-drawn cottagecore graphics collection inspired by countryside living, garden mornings, farm markets, baking, wildflowers, and quiet rural nostalgia — featuring primitive black ink illustrations with a warm handmade sketchbook feel.

A hand-drawn tattoo flash collection. Primitive black ink illustrations with outsider-art energy — featuring motel signs, arcade cabinets, payphones, jukeboxes, roller skates, pinball machines, roadside diners, cowboy souvenirs, carnival remnants, and small-town Americana objects scattered like memories from a midnight highway stop.

A hand-drawn tattoo flash collection inspired by vintage comic book magician ads, roadside attractions, carnival midway graphics, psychic motels, and strange Americana.

A hand-drawn illustration collection inspired by vintage western travel decals, roadside motel ephemera, and faded desert tourism graphics from the late 1960s and early 1970s — featuring fictional canyon touring clubs, Route 66 stops, trading posts, and retro highway souvenirs near the Grand Canyon.

A character and atmosphere illustration exploration for Club Casino — vintage spot illustrations capturing the gritty, smoky world of 1980s Las Vegas with a Rat Pack swagger.

A Certain Kind of Afternoon is a character and atmosphere exploration built around the kind of hospitality world that earns emotional connection through intentional detail rather than spectacle.

A gestural abstract artwork — inspired by Mount Helicon, home of the Muses, and the moment before any story has a shape.

A gestural abstract artwork — inspired by the legend of Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery and the stillness that lives at the center of all that noise.

What if your property map was just the beginning? A creative exploration in surface pattern and lifestyle illustration for hospitality brands.

A new hand-drawn narrative pattern capturing the lived experience of Savannah's public squares — the dog walks, the painters, the slow afternoons that never seem to end.

Most brands don’t need a full redesign—they need refinement. A practical approach to improving clarity, consistency, and structure without starting over.

Toile de Jouy has always been beautiful, narrative, and completely about people you've never met. This one's different. A New Orleans love story, drawn from scratch — and yours would be too.

Your wedding toile shouldn't feature aristocrats lounging in a field. It should tell your actual story. Custom illustrated toile built from your journey.

A custom wedding toile pattern built from real moments and details, used across invitations, paper goods, and event details.

Forget the stiff bronze plaques. These character-driven sketches capture Savannah’s icons off the clock, once the tourists leave and the real work begins.

Most creative briefs don’t fail because teams don’t care—they fail because they don’t guide decisions. A Creative Director’s perspective on why briefs break down and what actually works instead.

From the outside, it can look like some artists discover the secret to getting their work chosen. From the inside of creative teams, the process is far less mysterious — and much more about alignment than leverage.

Most pattern portfolios don’t stall because the work is weak—they stall because the positioning is unclear. A Creative Director’s perspective on what helps pattern work move forward inside professional teams.

If you’ve spent time in pattern design spaces and felt the advice didn’t match your professional experience, you’re not alone. This post explores why so much guidance feels misaligned.