Pastries, eggs, onigiri galore! The Instagram community submitted their favorite breakfasts, of which I created one out of paper each day for 100 days. See how the whole project unfolded on Instagram!

For the 2016 holiday season, our team at Facebook created over twenty cards made entirely of paper that could be sent to friends and loved ones on the Facebook platform. Here, a handful of cards for which I was primarily responsible, alongside a promotional stop-motion video created by the team.

Created in collaboration with artists Julia Cone, Cat Johnston, Tommy Perez, and Nyssa Skorji.

Our team was invited by the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) to create the identity for their annual DAAPworks events, highlighting the creative output of the graduating class.

Prop creation and set production: Julia Cone, Agnes Lee, and myself
Illustration and typesetting: Jez Burrows
Photography: Garrett Olinger

Facebook aims to highlight meaningful and relevant days and holidays to its users, and the art team released shareable cards for several occasions. Here, paper Easter cards and a Valentine's Vespa card are a small sampling of the collections. Easter cards created in collaboration with Nyssa Skorji. 

See video here!

To help viewers understand the complicated process behind Crispr gene editing, I partnered with prop stylist, Grace Suh, to tell the story with accessible props. Each "vehicle" was made from paper, along with the zipper, and shot in a stop motion format.

A window installation for DIY.org, an amazing, kids-only online learning platform, headquartered in the Mission district of San Francisco. To reflect the hands-on making and tinkering encouraged on the platform, I created an explosive array of tools for the installation.

For the Facebook On This Day product, I created concepts and executed Polaroid-like cut paper images that appear at the top of Facebook's newsfeed to signify a memory from that day, years ago. A wide variety of Polaroids were created—from latté art to umbrellas—which display at random along the top of the collection of memories.

Digital illustration of people by the amazing Agnes Lee.

A 15' window installation for the crew at the 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store. The treasure map transforms our San Francisco into an adventurous island of bewildering landmarks and curious creatures. The hill of Bernal Heights is now a skull cave, and the hairpin turn-ful Lombard Street is a mysterious, winding dragon, labeled “Lombard, Guardian of the Barbary Coast.” Karl the fog makes an appearance as…Karl the fog. 

Photos by Jonathan Ota.

Throughout the year, Facebook surfaces greetings at the top of the newsfeed to commemorate or celebrate a meaningful day in that particular region or country. Much of the art alongside these greetings were created out of paper by our team.

Madrone Art Bar is a lively bar that features a rotating exhibit of artists' work on its walls, as well as an installation in its front window.

For this installation, I created over fifty planes out of paper to create a piece titled Taking Flight. With a shorter prep phase than usual, I took on this install as an avenue to explore form and movement (and what turned out to be an extensive process in figuring out a clean way to turn one side of every sheet gold). Read more on this piece on Hoodline.

Update: This piece was on view at the Chicago Design Museum's Unfolded exhibition in 2016.

Photos by Jonathan Ota.

As part of the 100 Day Project, I created a daily cut paper piece from April 6 to July 14, 2015 around the theme of memories. The Project culminated into a show in October alongside Zhen Zeng's 100 Day Project at Heron Arts.

Statement
Every day, I seem to encounter snippets of scenes, wisps of objects, scent, color—fragments of moments, really—that remind me of someone to whom I'm connected. It's with the collecting of more and more of these fragments that we become increasingly intertwined and connected to each other. I thought of you is a documentation of these moments, seemingly mundane slivers of everyday life whose meanings have accumulated to shape who we are. Whether it is something as simple as a shoe or a book of matches, I'm enthralled by the fact that so many things each day serve as connections to someone.

See all one hundred on my Instagram!

Various spot illustrations for the Facebook product mix paper art and illustration to accompany messages of privacy, charity donations, and security. 

A holiday window installation for the 826 Valencia Pirate Supply Store depicts a moonlit scene of the sea. A ship carries a crew, one catching stars in the crow's nest, another knitting holiday scarves for his brethren, and another loading in a delivery of holiday gifts from the postal tugboat. The moonbeam bisects the ship, shifting its colors from light to dark.