I've been practicing graphic design for ~25 years. Here are a few selections from the archives—in reverse chronological order, more or less.

Early boston years
2004—2015

MIT 2030 

Microsite; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates

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Screen-shot-2013-03-28-at-9.21.13-PM

MIT 2030 

Brand guidelines; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates

MassArt 

Undergraduate  and graduate viewbooks; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates

MassArt_detail_7

The viewbooks were mailed in a custom-printed transparent envelope. 

Vermont College of Fine Arts 

Poster/mailers for two new low residency MFA programs; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates

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VCF_Film1

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

An lifestyle campaign for an orchesra a world away. Role: concept development, photography, and design. Created at Sametz Blackstone Associates.

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GBG_ad1_lrg
GBG_ad2_lrg

Gordon Brothers

A multi-platform campaign—part of a larger re-branding project—that's still going strong today (2024); created at Sametz Blackstone Associates.

Choate (Rosemary Hall)

Viewbook for a leading New England prepatory school. 

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EMM_5690_ProgramCovers_4web
EMM_5690_ProgramCovers_1web
EMM_5690_ProgramCovers_2.2web

Emmanuel Music

Season program covers (above) and season brochure (below)—part of a larger visual brand system project; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates.

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Harvard College

Viewbook; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates 

Vermont College of Fine Arts 

Website; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates 


Haemonetics 

A series of annual reports; created at Sametz Blackstone Associates

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Haemonetics_0026
JohnMurtagh_2-PA270409_LR-Mod
JohnMurtagh_Background_PA150385_LR-Mod
JohnMurtagh_1-PA270436_LR-Mod

Boston Philharmonic

Found this in my archives. It was an alternative design exploration that never saw the ink of a printing press. It has some 8vo flavor. 

Several years of season brochures from my first tenure working with the Boston Philharmonic. Created at Stoltze Design.

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AB_Winter2008_Cover_0
AB_Winter2009_05
AB_Winter2009_03
AB_Winter2009_01
AB_Winter2008_05
AB_Winter2008_03
AB_Fall2009_Cover
AB_Winter2008_01
AB_Winter2008_01_0
AB_Spring2010_03
AB_Spring2010_01
Hopkinton_01
AB_Spring2009_04
AB_Spring2009_02
AB_Winter2008_Cover
AB_Spring2009_01
AB_Spring2009_Cover
AB_Fall2009_01
Hopkinton_07
Hopkinton_05
AB_Winter2009_Cover
AB_Fall2009_04
AB_Winter2008_07
AB_Winter2008_08
AB_Winter2008_11
AB_Spring2009_07
AB_Spring2009_09
AB_Winter2009_04
AB_Spring2010_02
AB_Spring2010_06
Hopkinton_02
AB_Spreads-stata2
AB_Spreadss-stata3
AB_Covers-clients
AB_Spreads-measure-school
AB_Spreads-hidde
AB_Spreads-numbers2
AB_Spreads-smarticles
AB_Spreads-numbers1
AB_Spreads-illusion
AB_Spreads-client
AB_Spreads-timeline
AB_Spreads-here
AB_Spreads-lines
AB_Covers-cityhall
AB_Spreads-real-deal
AB_Spreads-numbers3
AB_Spreads-client2
AB_Covers-measuremnt
AB_Spreads-vision
AB_Spreads-numbers4
AB_Spreads-pro-bono
AB_Spreads-ch1
AB_Spreads-serial2
AB_Spreads-mending
AB_Spreads-reinvent
AB_Covers-new
AB_Spreads-radical
AB_Spreads-holyoak
AB_Spreads-moon-hill
AB_Covers-gatewaycities
AB_Spreads-unnatural
AB_Covers-small
AB_Spreads-ch0
AB_Spreads-holyoak2
AB_Spreads-concrete
AB_Spreads-unstopable
AB_Spreads-ch4
AB_Spreads-timeline2
AB_Spreads-serial1
AB_Spreads-ch3

Architecture Boston 

A sampling of covers and spreads from several years of editorial design; created at Stoltze Design

MIT Brain + Cognitive Sciences

Brochure to go along with a brand launch; created at Stoltze Design.

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BCS_grad4

The Forsyth Insitute 

Case statement; created at Stoltze Design.

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FOR_case_Tabloid_r1_v2b-1
FOR_case_Tabloid_r1_v2b-2

An alternate concept for the case statement. 

Translating the new Forsyth branding to the web, with embedded Flash. 

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Forsyth_web2
Forsyth_web3

Fideltity Investments

Recruitment brochure; created at Stoltze Design.

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Helmick-Schecter_Latitude-animation

Helmick+Schecter

A few from a larger series of promotional pieces for a sculpture studio.  Created at Stoltze Design.

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CantoDeTodos_4

Gian-Carla Tisera

Album design; parts of an ongoing collaboration. 

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CantoDeTodos_6
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GianCarla_SoA_flyer_v1-crop
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LotusLove_v2

Framingham State College

Viewbook; created at Stoltze Design.

MIT Engineering Systems Division 

Case statement; created at Stoltze Design.

Jerusalem 2050 / envisioning a place of peace website 

An MIT project. Created at Stoltze Design.

always adding more... 

New haven times
2000—2003

School Daze:
Yale Symphony Orchestra

Printed in two or three spot colors and posted around town. My first solo press check. 

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YaleSymphonyOrchestra_2003a_1
YaleSymphonyOrchestra_2002_april-b_1
YaleSymphonyOrchestra_2002_march
YaleSymphonyOrchestra_2002_feb
YaleSymphonyOrchestra_2001_nov

Yale University: 
Palimpsest

The inaugural, award-winning issue of Yale's graduate-student edited, designed, and published  literary and arts magazine. 

School Daze:
Yale School of Drama

A two-color package that included posters, table-tents, bookmarks, and a few space ads. The purist in me didn't want to include the lead actors in the final poster, but I did get the opportunity to do a photoshoot. 

Coriolanus_poster
Coriolanus_poster-process_4
Coriolanus_TT_2
Coriolanus_TT_1

Above L: Final poster
Above R: Alternate poster
L: Table-tent, front and back

School Daze:
Type 1

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GhostDogFinal3

Typeset a scene from a favorite film. My pick?
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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W-covers_2
W-covers_6
W-covers_3
W-covers_4
W-covers_5
W-covers_1

A series of speculative book covers for a class project. 

urbanCommunity-update

Poster for a symposium at Yale Law School

Two posters for the JCRC of Boston

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jcrcTzedek-copy

Two of a series of independent projects completed during grad school. 

always adding more... 

atlanta, ga
1995—2000

Ephemera

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Fools_Fest_Conversion_outline
02_MasterBuilder
GraduationShow

Student publications

Below: issues of Fever, Emory's student literary and arts magazine (for which I served as designer and editor+designer, respectively) and Alloy, a literary and arts + commentary journal in varying formats I also designed and/or edited. 

Alloy 1

Alloy 2

Emory_Fever

Emory's Edge student publication

Set in Emigre's Mrs. Eaves and Hoefler Didot.

Edge2_animated_sml

always adding more... 

CASE STUDIES

All material © Alexander S. Budnitz and/or the orgianzations listed

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