Awards: Grand Gold, CASE Circle of Excellence Design Awards, invitation category
Completed while working as a designer at the University of San Francisco. Celebrate USF branding design by Creative Director, Kris Miller.
A gala invitation for high-tier donors during the Celebrate USF festival. The prompt was to take the existing event branding of the color bloom and elevate it in a refined and elegant way.
The mark was transformed into a linear design and inlayed with a prismatic foil that called back to the original bloom palette. An intricate die-cut was created to contain the colorful artwork on the interior, then printed on a heavy, textural stock to create a fun reveal as the recipient opens up the piece.
Awards: First Place, Magazine/Trade Cover Design, SF Press Club
Completed while working as a designer at the University of San Francisco. Photography by Henrik Meng, additional food design by design manager Cat Bagg.
For this special edition of the alumni magazine, the focus was on all things food like alumni-owned restaurants, our farm and its production, and classes run at the Ferry Building. To accompany this, we created a cover that integrated food and type design by baking the title into a load of sourdough bread, pairing it with other food type and local goods.
Four loaves were created for this shoot, baked by me in my kitchen, with varying type designs. Loaves were initially shot whole and then pulled apart and cut like they were being served up at a party.
USF Magazine unveiled their first 30 Under 30 list in a sprawling 24-page feature. The design is meant to convey the energy and excitement of this group while also staying mature and tight.
Co-designed with USF designer Allison McGinn, we developed a treatment that used a limited color palette, pattern play, and symbols that can be reused and reinterpreted across the feature.
Work done as part of my role as a Senior Visual Designer at the University of San Francisco.
A series of murals designed and illustrated for the University of San Francisco’s Lone Mountain campus new dining hall.
The artwork is meant to be viewed as one large, flowing piece that is built from illustrations of shared community moments, Bay Area landmarks, and messaging key to USF’s missions and values.
The flowing linework is inspired by San Francisco’s iconic and ever-present fog. Colors are pulled from USF’s classic green and gold but we left a lot of white space to keep the space feeling open and modern.
Artwork was hand-drawn, digitally colored, and then installed through vinyl panels.
Work done as part of my responsibilities as Senior Visual Designer at the University of San Francisco.
A gratitude wall built for the University of San Francisco’s Innovation Hive.
This piece is a donor sign to honor USF’s philanthropic partners for supporting the construction of a new multidisciplinary maker space on campus. The base is an aluminum frame that emulates a hive structure that flows organically. Glass hexagons of different colors and depth extend out from the frame with the names of the donors. In addition to that are plaques filled imagery that alludes to engineering, fine arts, biotechnology, and environmental sciences to emphasize the many areas of study that the space will support.
Work done as part of my role as a Senior Visual Designer at the University of San Francisco.
System Design by me, layout by Maxine Taylor and Cat Bagg
Designed while employed as Senior Visual Designer at the University of San Francisco.
USF’s College of Arts & Sciences was due for a refresh of their graduate brochure suite. The creative team provided multiple options for a new system and the client ended up choosing my proposal.
The design leans on core brand colors and pairs them with crisp photography and an three-arrow elements that implies motion, forward-thinking, and clean energy
CLIENT: NEW REFORMATION PRESS
Completed while employed as Lead Designer at Scribe Inc.
Book cover and interior design for a series of essays on modern masculinity. The theme envisioned by the author was a traditional field guide. To build off of this, I introduced designs for "manhood merit badges" that punctuated the part openers.
UNPUBLISHED
Unused design for a self-help style book on words of Wisdom from Maimonides, a 12th Century Jewish Scholar.
The design uses 10 bright colors overlapping to create a single graphic and is meant to brighten up the book to appeal to a wider audience.
Completed while employed as a designer at the University of San Francisco.
A set of email campaigns designed for prospective students. The first set is a sample of a group of inclusive holiday emails that include a link to a holiday email and a gratitude message. The second set was used to welcome newly accepted students to USF and encourage them to watch a student-produced video about life as a USF student.
CLIENT: FELT+FAT
Philadelphia-based ceramics company asked me to provide branding material like logos and printed matter, as well as a catalog for print and web.
The catalog highlights the handmade nature and unique texture of FELT+FAT's wares and features photographs that cater to the upscale nature of the restaurants that are using the plates.
Posters, glassware, apparel, and advertisements for Philadelphia Homebrew Club fundraising events.
CLIENT: Michigan University Publishing
Completed while employed as Lead Designer at Scribe Inc.
Cover design for The Launch Lens- a book on creating clear decisions and navigating the entrepreneurial landscape.
CLIENT: Michigan University Publishing
Completed while employed as Lead Designer at Scribe Inc.
Book cover design for a series of essays on the conservation efforts that followed a gigantic flood in Florence, Italy.
CLIENT: MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING SERVICES
Completed while employed as Lead Designer at Scribe Inc.
Cover and interior design for a book discussing the place of popular music in academic study.
