Identity design for design and architecture firm Standard. Established in1992 as an art and architecture gallery in Venice,California, Standard evolved into an informal collaboration of a small group of architects, artists and writers with shared interests in contemporary art, architecture, and the urban environment. Today, Standard has grown into a multidisciplinary architecture and design practice with offices in Los Angeles and New York City.

Book design for artist and theorist Susan Kozel for MIT Press (A Leonardo Book). Susan Kozel is Principal Researcher at The SMARTlab, University of East London, U.K. and Director of Mesh Performance Practices. The book will be out by December 2007. Size: 7×9 inches, hard cover, 400 pages.

In 2004, my studio made a heartfelt decision to donate our creative services to ‘Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women.’ We became the agency’s brand stewards and continue to lead them through their re-branding process. The work that follows is what we have accomplished with extremely limited funds, yet with tireless dedication of great men and women who believe that violence is preventable and peace achievable.

For the second commission at the new Rec Center, Thom Mayne of Morphosis commissioned Rebeca Méndez to create an art installation on four cone-like structures, two of them reaching over 50 feet high and piercing through the roof …

Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis designed a 353,000 sq. ft. student recreation center on the campus at the University of Cincinnati, which opened on May, 2006. Rebeca Méndez was commissioned to create six murals measuring 9 by 20 feet each to be suspended from the ceiling at the convenience store of the Rec Center…

Poster design for UCLA Regents’ Lecturer Nicholas Negroponte. February 8, 2007, 6:00 pm. Lecture: Eliminating Poverty by Learning Learning.

The second I learned that I was going to design a poster for Negroponte, I had the solution in mind—a large black dot. Simple and minimal. The posters printed 44 x 56 inches, on uncoated smooth paper. The black dot was so dark and velvety that seemed like a black hole. The best moment was when artist and UCLA professor Barbara Kruger walking towards the elevators at the Broad Art Center, glanced at the poster, turned around, slowly apporached the poster, reached to the black dot and softly touched it, letting her elevator ride leave without her. The poster was Remixed by artist Gil Kuno (see image 2).

Announcement and Poster design for O P E N. February 9, 2007. Organized by Professor Casey Reas. I chose to use one of my images, Dettifoss #002, to represent the idea of full force openness. The image is of Dettifoss, the largest waterfall in all Europe.

Architecture and urban design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners (CRP) was retained by Caltech to develop a series of Master Planning recommendations for the campus that included landscape, systemic sustainability, campus lighting, and graphics and way-finding. Rebeca Méndez Design (RMD) was commissioned to design and develop the way-finding and signage master plan.