Many forms.
One practice.
Graham Slick works across design, experiences, sound, clothing and art. This is his life in projects, from 1994 to now.
Portland, Oregon
Every project, year by year
94 projects, 1994 to now
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2026
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Aloka V.2
Aloka is rebuilt around Graham, with a new website of its own.
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SoundBath.co V.2 · Pivot
A pivot under the same name: a national hub of sound bath, breathwork and wellness events.
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Bricks
A web app for organizing a weekly game of H.O.R.S.E. with friends.
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Made in Portland
A living directory of websites made in Portland, Oregon, and the people who make them.
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aloka.org
Aloka’s website: the weekly schedule, private bookings, gift cards, a shop and the newsletter.
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Wild Reed Yoga
A new identity for a Portland yoga studio that left the Modo Yoga franchise to build a name of its own, and the posters, passes, signs and clothing that followed.
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2025
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Aloka V.1
Graham’s sound ceremonies, led as Aloka since 2019, become a business: Aloka Sound Bath House.
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SoundBath.co V.1
Graham’s own website, for his sessions: the site Willamette Week named with his 2025 award.
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Christmas card, 2025
The family’s 2025 holiday card, designed by Graham: the three of them and the cat surfing a wave with the Christmas tree.
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2024
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2023
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2022
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2021
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Curo
A logo and screens for Curo, an app for planning a project’s tasks and costs and pricing what it makes, made as an intern project at EyeCue Lab.
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Startups for All
A community events calendar for Startups for All, an online incubator for self-funded founders, designed at EyeCue Lab.
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Christmas card, 2021
The family’s 2021 holiday card, designed by Graham: the two of them jumping for joy in front of their first house, out in space.
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2020
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Powur
A solar-sales software suite: the sellers’ platform, a back office, a customer website and mobile apps.
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Graham Head
A cut-out portrait of Graham’s smiling head, set on squares of hot red, black, charcoal gray and white.
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Knox
Product design for Knox’s software platform for first responders, at EyeCue Lab.
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BD Biosciences
Product design for CBA, BD Biosciences’ Cytometric Bead Array software for flow cytometry, at EyeCue Lab.
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Christmas card, 2020
The family’s 2020 holiday card, designed by Graham: the two of them riding painted folk-art animals through a stop-motion snowscape.
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2019
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The Aloka app
A gamified wellness program for breathwork, yoga, meditation and self-care: the idea that became Aloka.
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CoSourcery
A redesign for CoSourcery, an online community where makers share how-to articles: a new homepage, topics menu, article cards, logo and icons.
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Drop of Life
Print-ready labels for Drop of Life, a CBD brand in Keizer, Oregon: five tincture labels rebuilt from the brand’s own files, and designs for a CBD flower label.
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EPIC2019
Designs for the event pass and T-shirt of EPIC2019, an international conference on ethnography in business, held in Rhode Island in November 2019.
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2018
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100 Breaths
A meditation app that listens to your breathing and counts to 100 for you, with a guided cadence, waves to breathe with, and levels that only go up.
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Advisor software
Software for financial advisors of the old school and the new, for a major financial services company.
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WFG National Title
The user experience of a new website for WFG National Title, a title insurance company, built around its four kinds of clients and the state each is in.
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2017
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Mercer Salesforce1 User Guide
A guide for Mercer’s employees to Salesforce1, the mobile app of MercerForce, the firm’s Salesforce system, designed in Mercer’s brand.
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Christmas card, 2017
The family’s 2017 holiday card, designed by Graham: the porch, the string lights and a cat who had come home after twelve days away.
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2016
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Example
Graham’s own apparel brand: a bold wordmark, caps embroidered with state outlines, a lawn-print beach blanket and a phrase T-shirt, made to order.
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Squrl Trading
A logo and a one-page website for Squrl Trading: a brush-script name over a squirrel, floating on a dark film of a forest.
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Bramble Hill Farm
A logo for Bramble Hill Farm, a small farm in Maine that grows oyster mushrooms.
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1=0
A square graphic of the equation 1=0, made of white bars and a white circle on black.
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LastLook
The app flow and wireframes for LastLook, a mobile app for sending photos to a project’s team and getting them approved before a deadline.
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2015
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McGraw Hill Financial
An iPhone app for the company’s yearly Code of Business Ethics certification.
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Rivals
Bar sports, in real life: an app for finding games, challenging the people there and keeping score.
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Open Paddle
Tablet software for running the ping pong, pool, foosball and shuffleboard tables at bars and pop-ups.
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Submarine
Graham’s concept for a dating app built around short videos, with the feature list and iPhone screens he designed in May 2015.
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BayYum
Graham’s YouTube and Twitch channel: a red logo, channel art with his own grinning face, business cards, video thumbnails and T-shirts.
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Clothesline
A plus sign for an apparel idea: drawn plain and folding open in pink, then tried as two pink pluses on a five-panel cap.
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Turf Town
Graham’s idea for a game played on a city map: a logo cut from turf, a holding page, a game screen and a quiet map style of Manhattan.
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ARRIS
A new ARRIS.com for the video and broadband technology company: the site map, wireframes, responsive layouts and page designs, at Story Worldwide.
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Saga Content
A master Keynote template for Saga Content, built around the SAGA wordmark: title slides, orange headline slides and an index for the company’s story and case studies.
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2014
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Purdue Day of Giving
Two 24-hour giving campaigns. The 2015 Day of Giving raised $13.7 million, a record for a single-day campaign in higher education at the time.
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Columbia Giving Day
Two Giving Days for Columbia University. The 2015 campaign raised $12.7 million, its best to that point.
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!
The campaign page that launched the brand’s new look and new recipe.
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Suave
A playful teaser microsite for the launch of Suave’s Luxe and Sea Minerals lines.
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Creationeering
Designs for a personal site organized by the day, with a page for each day and a month of days on one grid; by June it was called Graham Camp.
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Unofficial Frank T-shirt
An unofficial T-shirt for fans of the 2014 film Frank, and the one-page shop Graham designed to sell it.
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Fuck Pong
A blunt logo, FUCK PONG in white capitals on a red square, and a black-and-white version of the words from 2017.
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Angel Compass Network
Logo options for Angel Compass Network: a compass star over a flowing script, a bold sans and a banner.
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Country Crock
New product and recipe pages, holiday recipe themes and a reworked mashed potatoes page for Country Crock’s website, at Story Worldwide.
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WGN America
Story Worldwide’s pitch to redesign WGN America’s website, built on two words, step inside: the site for desktop, iPad and iPhone, and a pitch video.
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Bertolli
Designs for an immersive website for the launch of Bertolli Gold Label, Bertolli’s first super-premium pasta sauces, for desktop and mobile, at Story Worldwide.
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CLEAR Scalp & Hair
The site map, blog and product finder for the 2014 redesign of CLEAR Scalp & Hair’s US website, and updates to its page designs, at Story Worldwide.
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Ever True
The logo, brand book and guidelines for Ever True, Purdue University’s capital campaign, as the university approached 150 years.
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SEI
Interaction design for SEI’s website: a long scrolling page for the SEI Wealth Platform and a case studies section for private banks, with concepts for a Fortune cover wrap.
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World Science Festival
Print concepts for the 2014 World Science Festival in New York: science photographs on black under playful headlines.
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Beech-Nut
Just Gentle Cooking, a short live-action and animated film on how Beech-Nut’s new baby food is made, from Story Worldwide’s 2014 campaign Real Food for Babies.
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2013
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Recode
The user experience of Recode, the new technology publication from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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Here Here
A meet-up network he co-founded, which began with rounding up friends for ping pong.
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GE Garages
User experience and wireframes for the GE Garages website, the online home of GE’s touring workshops for makers, at Sub Rosa.
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Napster
Strategy and new feature concepts for Napster’s mobile app, at Sub Rosa.
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2011
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Madzik
The New York agency where Graham was creative director: its logo and website, with a portfolio viewer for its interactive work.
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Gimlet
A logo, illustrations, business cards and website comps for Gimlet, a small film company in New York.
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RFHX
A logo and website design for RFHX, the company of the New York film director Ryan Fenson-Hood.
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2010
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Beton Builders
A new brand, website, client portal and print for a New York design-build firm.
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PIPS
The elephant logo, website, hand-painted glass signage, clothing and print for a table tennis venue and art space in Williamsburg.
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Logos and branding
Logos and identities from sixteen years of work, from Magnet Theater to Wild Reed Yoga.
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Magnet Theater
A new logo, website, illustrations and window display for an improv theater and school in New York.
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Tiger Pong
Creative direction, UX and visual design for the web app of Tiger Beer’s Tiger Pong campaign, at Madzik Agency.
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Puma ping pong holiday
Experience design for a Puma-sponsored ping pong holiday at Brooklyn Bazaar, at Madzik Agency.
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Soho Pong
The logo for a table tennis venue and training facility in Soho, New York, at Madzik Agency.
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2009
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2008
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Books
Sixteen hardcover books painted over, cover to spine, with new pictures and new titles.
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In a Blizzard
Four snow creatures, each drawn small in a field of white: a polar bear, a snowy owl, a wampa and a yeti.
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Asphalt
Three skateboard decks painted in black and gray: Cry, Girl and Tower.
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Bad Apples
Four apples carved into faces and left to dry, each framed in white.
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2007
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Acting and voiceover
Background roles in seven TV series, a film, a commercial, and the party promoter on the street in Grand Theft Auto IV.
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You Love Me Too Much
A potted flower, loved too much: under a blazing sun, a pouring watering can, an umbrella and a cloud of blah blah blah.
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EyeWood
Googly eyes set into wood: bare trees and their roots, forests, bursts and fields of eyes, from six-inch squares to a skateboard deck.
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Fall In
Thirteen framed works on paper: black ink in clouds and plumes through yellow, orange, green and blue.
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Inktank
Photographs of colored ink moving through water: orange, red, green, blue and black.
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Mantled
Close-up photographs of a crusted, mottled surface in blue, gold and rust.
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Lost Lake
Photographs taken at night at a lake: a dock, the treeline and the moon.
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2006
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Carnegie Council
Creative direction and design for the Carnegie Council website and its microsite-blog, Policy Innovations.
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2005
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Oblib
Electronic music, DJ sets and a radio show on East Village Radio, and later a clothing line.
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Lincoln
On-site web producer in Memphis for Lincoln’s webisode campaign and its sites, Lovely by Surprise and The Neverything.
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2003
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1994
In the works
Coming soon
hum
A space for quieter thoughts, deeper listening, and creative inquiry.
Aloka Press
A home for writing, ideas, and printed works.
Physical objects
Resonator Bells · Vesica Platform · Lamp
Art
New work on the way. His earlier series are on the timeline, and his art has been shown in more than 30 exhibitions in New York, Brooklyn and Miami.