These vector portraits actually began on canvas — they started off as experiments seeing where I could take portraits with only one color of paint. The canvases may be gone but the images live on.

Main Entry: la·ba·no·ta·tion
Pronunciation: \ˌlā-bə-nō-ˈtā-shən, ˌla-; lə-ˌbä-(ˌ)nō-\
Function:noun
Etymology: Rudolf Laban died 1958 Hungarian dance theorist + English notation
Date: 1952

: a method of recording bodily movement (as in dance) on a staff by means of symbols (as of direction) that can be aligned with musical accompaniment

What could labanotation look like in Flash, with control over time? This experiment served as the projected backdrop for “A Cup of Joe,” an installation performance by Linden Ontjes for the 2006 Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle.

This collage for Seattle’s Past & Present Society, created at Bridgman Design, takes a fun look at the U.S. in 1939.

Put enough monkeys with typewriters in one room for some time, and eventually, one is bound to write some Shakespeare. That’s a true Comedy of Errors.

This ancient Chinese text needed a refresh for the 21st Century.

From one large illustration of a tree created by blowing ink across a page, a vector rendition was made and then sliced into 81 pieces on a 9 by 9 grid — one slice for each verse. Add a spacious grid and a minimal typeface, and the Tao is now more graphically accessible and inviting.