JJ is a graphic designer and web developer—making websites (1), graphics (2), and books (3) for projects about art, reading, and organizing.

1) movie nights at divison place
2) Black and white
3) An open spread of an oral history workbook
(1) A website for Community Reading Group (2) Graphic for the art installation, Inverse Surveillance Project (3) An open spread of Speaking the Matter, an oral history workbook

This summer, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, an art achive launched a redesigned website. This one was years in the making with long-time friends and collaborators. Browse their digital items and collections. Add your own materials.

Previously, an Art Director at the L.A. Times for Digital Projects with director Alex Tatusian. Collaborated with the Data and Graphics team, a multi-disciplinary team of journalist-coders. What was made? A feature about commuters on the Metro (4), a digital memorial for the victims of the Monterey Park shooting (5), a starter kit for mental health in Mandarin Chinese (6), and a wild visual poem with A.I. images and Los Angeles literature (7)—to name a few. Major project have "full spreads" accessed via the table of contents.

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(4) Who rides the Subway in Los Angeles? An interactive story reported by a cohort of L.A. Times fellows. (5) A tribute to Star Ballroom in Monterey Park and memorial to the lives lost. (6) A starter kit for mental health dialogue in Mandarin with interactive audio clips for pronunciation (7) How A.I. Sees L.A. by Carolina A. Miranda, Alex Tatusian and Ashley Cai.

Nothing gets going on its own. Years ago, many projects were made for friend of a friend, Hoda Katebi, a writer and organizer based in Chicago, including Blue Tin Production, a worker-owned apparel studio; Believers Bail Out, a Muslim bail-fund organization; and Because We’ve Read, an international book club focused on radical texts.

Here is an index of websites I've built. Or reach me here.