I worked with Joey from BareBurger, an organic burger restaurant in Greenwich Village, Murray Hill, and Astoria to create this flyer for their Japan disaster relief fundraiser promotion.  They will be donating 20% of their sales next Tuesday, March 22, to Red Cross efforts in Japan. Download PDF version of the flyer

Here are my submissions for the JETAANY.org logo redesign contest. Designer’s Statement JETAANY “JET-AH-NEE” – a bold, dynamic, genki brand, embodying the best of Japan, JET, and NYC The Apple a symbol of New York City as well as the teaching profession Red like the rising sun in the Japanese hinomaru flag and the indelible [...]

Koto player Masayo Ishigure explains the koto and plays a tune at the JETAANY / Mie Inc cultural event on February 19, 2011.

I am back from my trip to Japan and my summer hiatus from blogging.  Here are some pictures from my trip.  Hundreds more on Flickr!

As part of Japan’s efforts to grapple with its massive public debt, the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Program may be cut. Soon after coming into power, the new  government launched a high profile effort to expose and cut wasteful spending. In May 2010, the JET Program and CLAIR came up for review, and during [...]