Simon Griffee
Department of graphic design, art direction, and photography.

Art is Work

  1. Typographic poster for the Italian Academy.

    Graphic design for the Italian Academy at Columbia University.

  2. An illustration of Luz.

    Illustration work for UN/FAO’s International Plant Protection Convention.

  3. Piano chords diagram.

    Piano ➶ diagram with common chords in each key.

  4. Imgtlk logo - lips and flying piece of paper.

    Imgtlk ➶ project about art that touched people.

  5. The Core 100 logotype in an ad.

    Core Centennial logo for the 100th anniversary of Columbia University’s core curriculum.

  6. The observer symbol is a stylized profile view of an eye.

    U+23FF Observer Eye Symbol ⏿ for the Unicode Consortium.

  7. The cover of Windward.

    Windward, a book of black and white photographs of people and landscapes.

  8. HTML Form to File.txt title typographic illustration

    HTML Form to File.txt for quickly starting a static site blog post from a web browser.

  9. A photo of the HyperTextHero Net Scape Raft Videocam Support System.

    Net Scape Raft Videocam Support System ➶ Lego camera holder.

  10. A painted sun on a colorful background with stylized typography on the bottom.

    A poster for friends doing good work on the Italic Peninsula.

  11. Street photograph of a figure jumping over a puddle on 42nd Street near Times Square, NYC.

    Street and event photography.

  12. A painted sun.

    HyperTextHero writes and links and talks about work and play to brighten the day. The site is hand-made using the Hugo static site generator. See various merch designs in the shop, too.

  13. A pencil drawing of musical notes flowing into an ear.

    Pencil drawings for iconography at the UN Archives.

  14. A photo I took on my first glider flight near Norwich, UK.

    The Daydreamer biography written for an avatar in a flight simulator with propeller aeroplanes.

  15. Compass rose with back azimuth.

    Compass Rose with Back Azimuth for heading home or helping to meet.

  16. Combat Air Mail logo showing wings over a red heart.

    ​Combat Air Mail Mail delivery mission for IL-2 Sturmovik flight simulator.

  17. Simple web typography template (HTML and CSS).

    CSS Typography free template to let the clothes words wear on the internet cascade down.

  18. A pencil and digital color illustration of a woman walking while holding a sword and a book.

    Antistasi Amazons Arma 3 mod modification to put the right people in charge.

  19. ​ A man in a suit gliding with a rainbow-colored parachute.

    ​GTA Online cooperative play guide and PC keyboard bindings, and a few short films made with the in-game video editor.

  20. A black and white photograph of a sea bird.

    Monterey Bay Aquarium photographs of animals in water.

  21. Condensed Anthem Lazer Power: Frostblade NeWT

    Condensed Anthem Lazer Power: Frostblade NeWT hand-assembled computer for video game streaming.

  22. A calendar.

    Calendar for International Plant Protection Convention.

  23. A screenshot of the IPPC website.

    International Plant Protection Convention 🌱 Website, user experience, and interface design to help an organization protect the world’s plants. Tech journey from Typo3 to Drupal to Django.

  24. Political Pasture cover, back and spine

    Cover, back and spine design for a friend’s Uppsala University dissertation titled Political Pasture that was successfully defended and published.

  25. My workspace at the now-gone Queens UN Arms warehouse.

    Hand-made, Coriolis cuboctahedron space station inspired by Elite.

  26. The ATPM cover design depicting the word “Macintosh” in red, blue, and yellow bold letters emerging from a tangle of grey lines.

    Illustration and website design for About This Particular Macintosh online magazine, depicting the word “Macintosh” in bold red, blue, and yellow letters emerging from a tangle of grey lines.

  27. A screenshot of the website.

    Website design and production to promote a postgraduate course in plant biosecurity offered by a consortium of Australian universities. One of many projects I’ve made with WordPress.

  28. Pyramids echo a key in the desert night.

    Business card for an independent locksmith with pyramids forming a key shape in the desert night.

  29. Logotype design for a small company with big clients.

    Logotype for a small company with big clients.

  30. Stylized photograph of Roman pine with Roman lettering.

    Design and production of brochures, calendars, literary magazines and other marketing materials for The American Overseas School of Rome, where I also taught 2nd and 6th grade computer classes and helped the IT chief with various technical issues including networking and DNS.

  31. Brochure cover for the small Mylius 11E25 37' yacht.

    Brochure design for a small yacht maker.

  32. Pixel icons for Nokia phones.

    In-house graphic and web design including icons for early “smart” phones in an Italian communications company called Acotel.

  33. European Artisans homepage.

    Graphic and web design for a startup called European Artisans in the Trastevere district of Rome during the dotcom bubble.

  34. Kassandra in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

    Pause: An intermission of action in video games.

  35. Hot springs symbol chosen to represent Food News.

    ♨ Food News was a website to publish and discuss links about healthy sustainable food, ranked by readers made with Django.

  36. Spock and Kirk arguing about next steps.

    Is it a feature, or a bug? There was no bug database, so I made one called the IT Wishlist Bug Database Web App using the Django Python web framework to find out.

  37. The pasta clock website.

    Pasta Clock: Al dente, not al mush.

  38. De Niro and Pesci in Casino.

    Pardon me, but I have a question.

  39. Outfit for photographing in NYC blizzards.

    Winter Collection 2015 street photography attire.

  40. Earth Among The Stars in HTML and CSS.

    Earth among the stars in your web browser in HTML and CSS.

  41. Drawing studies of a youthful Beethoven in pencil for a poster.

  42. A native American facing the threat at Bears Ears.

    Poster design for the people of Bears Ears.

  43. Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

    Be kind, damnit! Kind hearts and grass in the wind.

  44. Photographer Angelo Paionni’s old-school website. Angelo Paionni

    Old-school website for a photographer.

  45. 1-Minute Arguments For A Basic Income For All Human Beings

    A basic income for all human beings, please.

  46. Space Invaders

    Video games in the Brazilian Cerrado and elsewhere.

  47. A photograph of an elderly couple on the beach in Puglia taken during a trip to mourn my father.

    Salento: Photographs from Puglia.

  48. Editing

    🎬 Art is in what you leave out.

  49. River Light

    A peek at coming music.

  50. Web Design: Where to Begin ❦ Writing well is more important than elaborate graphics or code.