Michael Frey · Product Designer

Color That Heightens the Senses.

Commissions

Precision Care Detailing

A marketing site for a car-detailing shop: coating, film, tint and detailing on one appointment. A floating glass navbar, a turning line-art crystal in the hero, and its own design system.

HTML + CSS

Website

Buchanan YMCA

A timeline and photo archive of the Buchanan YMCA, founded in 1886 as the Japanese YMCA. It follows its building at 1530 Buchanan from the 1936 opening through the American-Japanese community’s wartime internment, the USO years and urban renewal to today’s youth programs in the Western Addition.

Professional presentation

Interstate

A 20-slide lightning talk on Interstate, Tobias Frere-Jones's 1993 typeface: its roots in Highway Gothic, what he changed, its anatomy and where it's used.

Presentation

Motion

Motion · anaglyph

MF Splash

The MF monogram as red, green and blue copies of one letterform. On a phone the gyroscope tilts it through a spring; on a desktop it runs by itself. Six faces, two blend modes.

MotionGyroscopeOKLCH glow

Type

Type · USF Thacher Gallery

Market/Value

An 11 × 17 poster for the University of San Francisco's Thacher Gallery, set in one typeface at one size and one weight, in black and white. Hierarchy comes from spacing, alignment, italics and bars.

PosterOne size, one weightGrid