Language and Linguistics art

Digital art

This American English IPA ouija board was inspired by a term project in a phonetics class I TAed in which students could work with either recorded data or a language consultant. This often prompted the professor to say things like "those of you who are working with a live speaker," which always brought this image to my mind! Details include using syntax trees and sound waves as decorations in the top corners; Liepzig Glossing style abbreviations in place of yes and no; and a ghostly mid-sagittal vocal tract floating in the bottom corners!

Both of these linguistics jokes are available on my redbubble site!

Language Lab branding

The branding for Stanford PhD candidate CJ Brickhouse's YouTube channel, Language Lab. The motif focuses on using relatively non-theory-specific elements of language and linguistics as art, featuring an ERP curve, a vowel space outline, and articulators and perceivers.

Art about the generalized context model

Berkeley Linguistics Art

Modeling the Berkeley Linguistics face mask I made for our first fall meeting back in person!

My design for a grad student community building screen printing event! The diacritics are meant to approximate a speaker with features of the California Vowel Shift

I've made several batches of Berkeley Linguistics hand-printed postcards! I first started doing this as a gesture for prospective grad students, and now I love to use them for things like thanking guests!

Other stuff

This pop-up book, a gift for another phonetician, features a sentence from the TIMIT corpus.

I've had the pleasure to be on the instructional staff for the course Language in the United States 3 times, and I love to use this postcard--a visual pun of the course's name--to thank students and guests.

This 2020 collage commemorates the change to the logo of Praat (a software for phonetics research).

These temporary tattoos, favors for my advisor Keith Johnson's retirement party, replace the red heart of the classic "I ❤️ NY" logo with a waveform of the word "heart"

Conference branding

A sampling of art I've done for conferences and projects I've been involved with!