Alpha is a leading manufacturer of assembly materials for the electronics industry, and APEX is one of the industry’s premier tradeshows in North America. In 2015, Alpha underwent a transfer of ownership and wanted to make it clear that its reputation for quality and innovation has deep roots, going back to 1872, and that its continuity was in no danger of being interrupted. The final section allows visitors to predict the industry’s future.

Alpha’s booth at NEPCON Shanghai in 2015. 

Ten-foot expandable booth and pop-up bannerstand for Stryker Healthcare Systems

Art direction and design for automotive accessories catalogs. The BMW X5 was photographed by Peter Morehand in Hamburg, NJ and Bear Mountain State Park, NY. The Volvo catalog was photographed by Ivo von Renner in Scottsdale, Camp Verde, Flagstaff, and Sedona, AZ.

Logo, photography, website and signage for a child care center in Jersey City, NJ.

Reconstructive-surgery “placemat,” layout of orthopaedic surgical instruments

Awards brochure released to Stryker’s sales force early in the year, anticipating the national sales meeting the following January. Presents award categories and criteria. Generates enthusiasm toward exceptional performance. 

Series of product-line posters to adorn Alpha’s Shenzhen facility.

Product literature promoting products and services to electronics manufacturers. Design employs Alpha's signature mosaic motif.

For their year-end meeting, Stryker’s quality-control organization made videos that drew parallels between scenes in classic movies and experiences managers had in the preceding year. Movie scenes were re-scripted and managers played themselves. Posters were displayed throughout the meeting venue. 

Annual report for St. Philip's Academy, a K-8 in Newark, New Jersey, supported by the Episcopal community in Newark and surrounding towns.

Visual identity and proposed website for color consultant 

Aeronautics-themed graphic support for Alpha’s international sales meeting, held at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Participants were grouped into teams for training sessions and competitive events. Team icons are shown, along with program cover and spread and a contest poster. Info graphics on the program cover mimic cockpit instruments.

Logo and cafeteria banner for employee fitness program

Newsletter for Stryker's Spine, worldwide news of events, sales performance, competition and more.

Logo and packaging for pretzel rods sold at major- and minor-league ballparks

Photography and web design for a Roman Catholic combined parish in Jersey City, NJ.

Stryker digital publishing for the iPad. Used primarily to display sales literature for the sales force. Also as comprehensive event guides for trade shows and meetings.

Cover design: Stryker’s 2016 sales awards brochure for their National Sales Meeting

Newsletter provides motivation and product knowledge to Alpha employees.

Recruitment campaign, including brochure, poster, booth, postcards, and kit, targeting recent and soon-to-be graduates for Stryker’s financial division.

Stryker demonstrates the unbeatable longevity of this trauma implant.

Chicuterie was a roasted-chicken takeout startup.

“AT&T Journal” and “Straight Talk” were AT&T publications directed toward managers.

“The Thoroughbred Driving Experience” was an insert for the Washington Post.

Time Out was an illustration for AT&T Journal.

Poster for a reading in Manhattan of a screenplay by Elizabeth Gregory Wilder. The work was optioned by Emotion Pictures in Nova Scotia.

The silhouettes here on the page background are of tools from the time before personal computers. Each page of a print piece was built by hand using illustration board, ruling pens, stats, and galley type. Computers took the hand work out of design and left my fingers needing something creative to do. So I returned to painting, having abandoned it after high school. I studied at the National Academy for ten years and individually with several renowned representational painters. I am fascinated with portraiture, and many of the subjects are family members from my father's side in Newfoundland. Design is about clarity of communication, but painting gave me access to an unexpected emotional dimension.