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Florentine Opera - Season Image

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As part of MIAD's competitive internal internship, Visual Resources, I was challenged to create a set of cohesive, approachable visuals for the four shows in the Florentine Opera Company's 2012 Season.

In order to appeal to a broad audience and help visualize opera's emotional intensity I illustrated simple but dramatic symbols in a stylized manner, inspired by cut-paper. The climactic depictions, reminiscent of simplified Victorian toy theater cut-outs, are set against vivid backdrops painted as a reaction to each show's score.

This project was selected as the winning design and was used by the opera company to promote their 2012 season.

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Menu Design for Local Brewery

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In 2017 I designed a suite of menus for the Riverwest brewery Company Brewing. Using typography inspired by hand lettering and the color scheme from their existing brand and website the new menus help position the restaurant as a casual, neighborhood destination. In addition to the menu designs, I created a set of templates and a customized training manual to allow the restaurant to make their own updates to the menu, helping maximize their initial investment in the designs.

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Boutique Film Production Company Website

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After creating graphics and providing project support for a number of videos for Honeycomb Productions, they asked me to help design their new logo and website. Under the direction of president Kurt Raether, I gave the Honeycomb website a playful approach, using vintage illustrations paired with a dramatic black, white, and goldenrod color scheme to promote their services as a boutique and classically cinematic production company.

Animator Matthew Dwyer followed the playful illustration style in his quirky introduction to the Honeycomb Reel embedded on the homepage. In addition to creating the site's graphic style, I also consulted on the site's navigation structure and assisted with copywriting.

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Bosavi Headlamp eCommerce Site

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In the summer of 2014, I worked with Larry & Dan Freschl on a website and promotional materials for their rechargeable LED Headlamp, Bosavi. Working off of their strong marketing base, I redesigned their previously hard-coded website in Squarespace's CMS, setting up eCommerce and working with Benjamin Wick Photography to provide them with a professional set of product photography.

Certificates of Presence - Photo Book

I first saw these bizarrely intriguing still life photographs by Latvian-born Livija Patikne at Debra Brehmer's Portrait Society gallery in 2012 and immediately let the gallery director know that if she ever decided to do a photo book with the work, I wanted to help with the design. 

As luck would have it, Brehmer showed this collection again in the spring of 2014 in tandem with work by Vivian Maier and J. Lindemann and we collaborated on this photo book in time for the show. We narrowed down the photo selection together and created this compact catalog that surveys the strange collection of still life, self portrait and gravesite photography created by the artist in mid-century Milwaukee.

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Hand Painted Wrapping Paper

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Petiole Paper Co. is a personal project I started to experiment with color and pattern. A lot of my design work is digital so it’s always fun to challenge myself to do something with my hands. These designs start with watercolor paintings and become repeating patterns with digital editing. I’ve always loved the ritual of giving gifts and I created this series of holiday papers that capture the joy of Christmas in unexpected ways. In 2019 I sold my wrapping paper as part of MIAD’s student and alumni holiday art sale and raised over $300 for student scholarships.