Be More Chill

Be More Chill has all the hallmarks of a high school coming-of-age story: a best friend betrayal, an epic house party, the unattainable girl, and a pill that’s a cure for everything uncool which turns out to be an evil supercomputer who wants to enslave the human race.

I set the musical in the Fall of 2007. The iPhone was just arriving and MySpace and Facebook were the highlight of social media.

I found inspiration in the sleek iPhone commercials of the 2000s and designed the SQUIP’s color scheme around that. The more power the SQUIP has the less vibrant color there is.

Johns Hopkins University
Spring 2024

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