Poster for New Course on Preservation
We designed a poster for a new course at Iowa State University that will be taught by Mikesch Muecke in the Spring of 2020. The design took the course content—the…
Cover Design for Vorhees Book
We designed a book cover for Duane Vorhees latest publication this summer. Above is the final version, and below a few early iterations. The book is now available through Hog…
Draft Version 1
Cover Design for C. Curry Bohm Exhibition Catalogue
Below is a draft version of an exhibition catalogue design project I'm currently working on for the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University. This project is a continuation of…
Cover Design for Film Book Project
We just completed the design for a proposed book by R. J. Cardullo called Close Watching: Fifteen Don't-Miss Movies for the Film Aficionado, 1922-1983. We designed the cover and the…
Austen book cover
David Austen Photography Exhibition Catalogue
polytekton was hired by the Valparaiso University Brauer Museum of Art to design the exhibition catalogue for David Robert Austen. The resulting book, Being Australian Under A Southern Sun: All…
Cover Design for Naegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa
We just completed the final version of the cover and interior (with some prior design work by Ruixue Jia) for architect and scholar Daniel Naegele's Guide to the Only Good…
Update to Careri’s “Walkscapes” Cover
Here is an update to Francesco Careri's Walkscapes book that is forthcoming from Culicidae Architectural Press in December. In the new version I have shifted the color palette from red…
Logo for Musca Press
We were tasked with designing a logo for the newly established Musca Press, an imprint of Culicidae Press. Since 'musca' means fly in Latin, our first move was to consider…
ISU Percussion Ensemble
Four minutes and three seconds of practice by members of the Iowa State University Percussion Wind Ensemble recorded BEFORE the actual concert on 26 October, 2016 in Martha-Ellen Tye Recital…
Walking from Studio to Car
File under Observation From my fourth-year architecture studio, located currently in the Communications building north of the Armory on the Iowa State University campus, I'm walking at the end of…