A swimming pool seen from above: a crowd reflected upside down along the far edge, deep teal water, the sky and trees reflected near the corner

Iam Thinker

Designer · writer · photographerNew York City
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Cover photograph: Prom, Los Angeles, 2018

The Lizard, opened flat: a scaled black tail winds from the back cover across the spine to a lone figure in a red field on the front
01 The Lizard, Domenic Stansberry
Book design · Molotov Editions
Folklore on vinyl: a misty black-and-white forest sleeve beside a pale record
02 Folklore, Taylor Swift
Six vinyl editions for Target · layout and production
Coming 2 America, Rhythms of Zamunda on vinyl: Eddie Murphy in gold with a crown on black, the title in gold capitals, the record sliding out
03 Coming 2 America, Rhythms of Zamunda
Album design · Def Jam Recordings

City of New York

Communications, campaigns and creative development for a New York City agency, and a seat on its ai pilot team.

Creative strategist in communications and development. Recruitment campaigns and agency branding. Legal, investigative and policy material rewritten for the public and for senior leadership. Member of the agency's ai pilot team, evaluating workflows and assessing vendor solutions. Since March 2025.

Universal Music Group

Social and streaming campaigns for Republic, Def Jam, Verve and other umg labels, 2018–2021.

Comprehensive release rollouts on accelerated timelines: one-sheets, advertising, press materials and social assets, developed from each release's album artwork. Album artwork by the artists' own designers.

Red banner: a single eye framed in gold script reading In Your Eyes
The Weeknd, In Your Eyes (remix feat. Doja Cat)
Web banner
Header: handwritten names over a pale sun on a speckled field
Noah Kahan feat. mxmtoon, Pride
Social header
Social promo: the artist on a bed under blue light with neon script
Kailee Morgue
Social promo
Pink one-sheet styled as a cinema flyer: Rose City Cinema presents Riri
Aminé, Riri
Social promo
Header: the artist seated on white with a crow, hand-lettered title
Conan Gray, Kid Krow
Social header
Black banner: Blinding Lights in gold type beside a portrait in red
The Weeknd, Blinding Lights
Streaming banner
Social promo: an extreme close-up of an eye in pink and red
Evie Irie, Worst Enemy
Social promo
White header: a face split by a pink square, with the title in black
Hailee Steinfeld, I Love You’s
Social header
Dark green header: an illustrated face in foliage beside the album title
Sweet Crude, Officiel // Artificiel
Social header
Pale header: a hand-drawn house with the two names above it
Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Stuck with U
Social header
Social promo: a red neon heart sign on a pole against a violet watercolor sky, the title hand-lettered beside it
Lil Tecca, Out of Love
Social promo
Pale blue header: the artist in a parka beside violet hand-lettering
NAV and Gunna feat. Travis Scott, Turks
Social header

Montefiore Einstein

Lead writer for the digital alignment of a health system and a medical school: one website, one voice, written in the tone of their president and ceo.

A year bringing Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine into a single site, written with physicians, researchers and leadership, across patient care, research, education and community. Through Alto, 2023.

montefioreeinstein.org ↗

The Montefiore Einstein homepage: the headline From Research to Discoveries of Life-Saving Cures over a sunlit forest road, with key figures and an illustration below
Montefiore Einstein
Website writing
A wide pale blue sky over Venice Beach, two cyclists blurring past in the foreground, a lifeguard tower at right
04 Venice Beach
Photograph
Demi Lovato, I Love Me on vinyl: a blurred photograph of the singer in a red coat on a city street, I-heart-ME set small in the corner, the record sliding out
05 I Love Me, Demi Lovato
Single design · Island Records
Dave Brubeck, Lullabies on vinyl: a cut-paper moon, clouds and stars on navy, the hand-cut title on a cloud, the record sliding out
06 Lullabies, Dave Brubeck
Album design
Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings on vinyl: a violet painted portrait inside a white brushed ring on teal, the title curving below in Latin and Devanagari, the orange Impulse! label on the record
07 Kirtan: Turiya Sings, Alice Coltrane
Album design · Impulse! Records
The White Devil, opened flat: grey jacket, the title mirrored in yellow beneath itself, a black ink figure on the front
08 The White Devil, Domenic Stansberry
Book design · Molotov Editions
Sixpence None the Richer, Strange Conversation on vinyl: an engraved pigeon tied with orange ribbon on stained ochre paper, the record sliding out
09 Strange Conversation, Sixpence None the Richer
Album design · unreleased
A pigeon on a green bench in sharp focus, a skateboarder blurring past the food stands behind it
10 Venice boardwalk
Photograph
The Syndicate, opened flat: yellow and blue jacket, a duotone photograph of a police arrest on the front
11 The Syndicate, Clarence Cooper Jr.
Book design · Molotov Editions
keshi, beside you on vinyl: a faded cream sleeve with a row of pink palm trees along the bottom edge, name and title set small in a pink band across the top
12 beside you, keshi
Single design · Island Records
Black-and-white portrait of a four-piece band on a Manhattan sidewalk, each turning back toward the camera
13 This World Fair, New York City
Band portrait
A man balances on a beam on the sand, palm trees behind
14 Gymnast, Venice Beach
Photograph
Red hardcover: a black hand works a globe like a marionette above the stacked title
15 The Officially Unofficial Files of Dr. Gordon B. Gray, Darcy Fray
Written and designed · Nerdmob · Library Journal Indie Book of the Year
A bearded man in a bowler hat and velvet jacket, lit from one side against black, orange and red flowers at his lapel
16 Nebeel
Portrait
White hardcover: a pen drawing of a cafe interior beneath the title, with Death in red
17 The Death of Teddy Ballgame, Robert Mailer Anderson
Book design · Molotov Editions · illustration by Sandow Birk
A dense crowd at a climate march, Green New Deal Now signs overhead, Jane Fonda in a red coat and hat at the center
18 Climate march, Los Angeles, 2020
Photograph
Eight logos in two rows on a pale ground, including Safur, Fixt, Fastmora, Nutrition Innovation and the Molotov Editions mark
19 Selected identities
Logos · Molotov Editions, Fixt, Safur, Fastmora, Nutrition Innovation and others
A rider and two loose horses gallop along a wide beach under a deep blue sky with a single small cloud
20 Unicorn Beach, Nicaragua
Photograph

darcy was here, essays and notes. Latest: Threaded, Howl at the Moon.
Writing · Substack

Softgrain, digital spaces built to be quiet. *where the feed ends.
Currently building