Side of the desk · for fun

Design & make.

When I'm not researching, I'm making things, graphic design, type, fabrication, the odd website, and a wall of doodles.

Cookbook Camera Blog
Graphic design

Projects & campaigns.

Selected graphic-design work. Each opens the full project on my site.

Think Again illustrated book cover and spine mockup
Cover · Illustration

Think Again

An illustrated cover and spine concept for Adam Grant's Think Again.
Think Again typographic book cover with a letter-grid pattern
Cover · Typography

Typography

A type-driven cover variant built from a grid of letterforms.
Two illustrated postage stamps: End of the Trail with a U.S. flag, and a Native American portrait
Illustration · Series

Stamps

An illustrated stamp series to redesign Columbus Day to be historically accurate.
Lunatix type-specimen booklet spreads on a plum background
Type · Specimen

Lunatix

A type-specimen booklet for Zuzana Licko's Lunatix typeface.
Covid Chronicle icon set: a day in the life, line-drawn pictograms
Iconography · Series

Covid Chronicles

An icon system documenting a day in the life during lockdown.
Digital fabrication

Made by machine & hand.

I'm a certified technician in a maker space and like to laser-cut, 3D-print, and fabricate pieces with an Arduino! Unfortunately I don't really capture it in .png or .mp4.

Fabrication reel · 01
Fabrication reel · 02
Web design

Designing on the side.

A site I built for fun, an Avatar: The Last Airbender experience that tells you which element you bend.

maybesab.github.io/ATLA

The Last Airbender element quiz

A personality experience built and hosted on GitHub Pages, part design experiment, part love letter to the show.

Open the site
The doodle wall

D👁️👁️DLES ✍️

When I'm not researching, I'm drawing. A wall of doodles, plus the graphic-design projects I've made along the way.

Colored-pencil drawing of a rooster with iridescent tail feathersRooster · colored pencil
Acrylic painting of strawberries on a dark backgroundStrawberries · acrylic
Ink and wash painting of a girl on a red swing beneath a bare treeThe swing · ink & wash
Colored-pencil portrait of a foxFox · colored pencil
Nine-panel mixed-media grid of skull studiesSkull studies · mixed media
Ink line drawing with real crayons and colored desk suppliesMeltdown · ink & crayon
Charcoal drawing of a skull on toned paperSkull · charcoal
📌 Doodle wall is live. The graphic-design thumbnails still use placeholder art, send the project files and I'll drop them into the cards.