Work from the classroom.

Creative Direction, Art Direction, and Strategic Direction: CHRISOLUX
Design, production, and illustration: Each work credited

Nashville State Community College (2019-2020)
Nossi College of Art (2019)
O’More College of Design (2016-2018)
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film (2015-2018)
The School of Visual Arts (2010-2013)

Currently, I’m teaching at Nashville State Community College. The following are selects of first year student work. (credits to come)…

JUUL Branding

Xavier Carpio
Sky Leeson
Ally Swygart @moongoddessxiv
Tyler Wilson @gtdubsdesign

Nossi College of Art: Design Media 2019 Summer

Toscano Cigars Branding

Breanne Antone
Stephanie Young
Patricia Johnson

The FLUX Graphic Design Show is just one of the deliverables of the senior class at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. We produce this show along side of preparing a final portfolio for each student to be displayed at this show. The limitations: 15 weeks and $1500.

We produced a screen printed poster invite and the show. ST8MNT hosted this show in their bank vault event space—it doubles as a photostudio—we projected raw video footage of us making this image, mixed in with the FLUX footage from 8 projectors.

Graphic Design Senior Show / Watkins College of Art, Design & Film / 2017
Awards: 2017 Graphis New Talent Annual, 2017 Gold Addy
For student bios visit the website: FLUX
Photography and video by Iamrevolver

The WORK Graphic Design Show is just one of the deliverables of the senior class at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. We produce this show along side of preparing a final portfolio for each student to be displayed at this show. The limitations: 15 weeks and $300.

For this one we built a 30’ tall fluorescent Orange Wrench and had it in the Watkins Gallery.

Graphic Design Senior Show / Watkins College of Art, Design & Film / 2016
Awards: 2016 Graphis New Talent Annual, 2016 Gold Addy
Students: Chris Davidson, Lacy Frazier, Sam Woolson

This summer I worked with one of my longtime (2 years) students Ali Stevens on a project for her independent study.

“The goal of this independent study project was to mix old design methods with new to recreate posters and packaging that reflected the experimental temperament of my favorite French New Wave films. These were modeled after the Criterion Collection which is a series of important classic and contemporary films.” - ALI STEVENS

Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Independent Study
2018

In my humble opinion the design of HOW Design Magazine has always, well, has always sucked. So I tasked my class with the challenge of redesigning the magazine. The deliverables were a few covers to show how the design would work across multiple issues, a table of contents, and two sample spreads.

Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Experimental Type
Spring 2017

WILL WITHERS

CAMERON LUCENTE

ALI STEVENS

DREW DESIREY

JACKIE THOMAS

ABRAHAM LARA / BOOK DESIGN / GOLD ADDY

GIL ACOSTA / BOOK DESIGN

MARY JACOBS / GOLD ADDY

SEAN WALTON / BOOK DESIGN / SILVER ADDY

How do you make work that reaches the “college age” demographic? I started a class that utilized a cross section of the campus, across the Fashion, Interior, and Graphic Departments to make our work. Comprised of freshman and sophmores, we created all the design and advertising materials for O’More College of Design.

The students worked on teams to concept and then execute the work. Each team presented their ideas to the class for critique. This class delivered real work under real deadlines.

ABRAHAM MAST

ABRAHAM MAST

CHRIS DAVIDSON / GOLD ADDY AWARD 2016

My app design class also designed real work for O’More College of Design. An app that would organize the school by student, class, teacher, and department. Students could upload work teachers could grade them and we then could take that work and data to feed social media and the O’More website, submit the best work to awards, student portfolios, and automate a slew of other tasks.

O’More College of Design
App Design
Fall 2017

I always give the branding assignment in my Intro to Vector Imaging Class. Logos are the best way to teach a student how to use the type and pen tools. Plus I like to get them thinking about branding early.

O’More College of Design
Intro to Vector Imaging
2017

CODY PARNELL / SILVER ADDY 2017

ASHTON KRATKY

GRACE KIRKMAN / GOLD ADDY 2017

DOM GRANDA / GOLD ADDY 2017

MERCEDI THOMLEY

RAINEY IBBOTSON