Category: Design Portfolio
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Catholic Charities DC “Lighting the Path Towards A Brighter Future” 2025 Annual Report
Rapidly approaching their 100th anniversary, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has lived by their tagline: Inspiring Hope. Building Futures. For the eighth year, I have been fortunate to help bring their services and stories to live in their Annual Report. This year’s report (titled Lighting the Path Towards A Brighter Future) highlights their…
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Planet Word: Juneteenth Literary Jubilee 2025
Planet Word is an immersive language experience located at the historic Franklin School in Washington, DC. Planet Word is the world’s first voice-activated museum, featuring immersive galleries and exhibits for visitors of all ages. After two successful Juneteenth events, the museum asked me to help brand their 3rd Annual Juneteenth Literary Jubilee & Black Author…
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NLBID Pulse On Innovation: 2025 Market Insights Summary
National Landing, Northern Virginia’s rapidly evolving downtown and innovation community, spans Arlington’s Pentagon City, Crystal City and Potomac Yard neighborhoods and is home to Amazon HQ2, the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, and a diverse roster of restaurants, retail, and hotels. National Landing’s Business Improvement District kindly tasked me with creating a report that highlighting their…
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Planet Word: Literacy Liftoff!
Planet Word is a free museum at 13th and K Street NW in Washington, DC, committed to “inspiring and renewing a love of words, language, and literacy.” I recently completed what may have been my favorite project yet with the museum, a reading program called “Literacy Liftoff.” Planet Word’s Education Team describe the program as…
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Planet Word: Go Bananas! for Idioms! Spanish Illustrations
Planet Word is an immersive language experience located at the historic Franklin School in Washington, DC. Planet Word is the world’s first voice-activated museum, featuring immersive galleries and exhibits for visitors of all ages. I was thrilled to create six colorful, whimsical, complimentary illustrations based on the initial series (produced elsewhere) for their “Go Bananas…
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Catholic Charities DC “Compassion in Action” 2024 Annual Report
Almost 159,000 people in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland received help last year from Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington DC. The number of people in need returned to a pre-pandemic level after four years of increased need and an extraordinary response by Catholic Charities. In 2023- 2024, Catholic Charities continued its legacy of…
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38th Annual Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV
Whitman-Walker has been a mainstay for over fifty years, providing LGBTQ care and advocacy. This past summer, Red Clay Creative asked me to assist with logo design for a client who is very familiar to folks in the Washington, DC area. Held for the past 37 years, The Walk to End HIV is Whitman-Walker Health’s…
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Essie Chambers’ Swift River Social Media Graphics
Documentary producer and television executive Essie Chambers, best known for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Descendant (released by the Obamas’ Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022) released her debut novel Swift River this past summer, released via Simon & Schuster. Set in a 1980s New England town, it follows teenager Diamond as she searches for her…
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Casey Foundation Social Media Graphics
Since 2023, I have been fortunate to collaborate with Sara Lang Strategies to develop templates and graphics for AECF’s social media presence, which range between their annual KIDS COUNT® Data Book to explainers and data profiles. Based in Baltimore and working across the country since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation is “devoted to developing a brighter future for…
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Planet Word: Bringing Language to Life 2023
For the second year in a row, I have been fortunate to collaborate with Planet Word on their Bringing Language to Life annual report. Planet Word is an immersive language experience located at the historic Franklin School in Washington, DC. Planet Word is the world’s first voice-activated museum, featuring immersive galleries and exhibits for visitors…
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New America: U.S. Multiparty Democracy
New America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that “brings promising new voices to public discourse.” Their experts provide insights and analysis on some of today’s most urgent policy conversations. I was approached at the tail end of 2023 to create an illustration to highlight series of essays based on a 2023 conference on the…
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Planet Word: Enchanted Pages
This past November, Planet Word Museum of Language celebrated the addition of 25 new interactive books into its Schwarzman Family Library with a dinner as well as a an all-day community event. Enchanted Pages Community Day featured pop-up appearances by authors and noted word lovers, performances, and book-inspired activities for all ages. Titles included classics…
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Catholic Charities DC “New Beginnings” 2023 Annual Report
The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington provides the District of Columbia with services including meals, healthcare, legal and financial assistance, housing and sheltering, and educational programs. Easily my favorite project of the year, my work with the communications team highlights the aforementioned areas of work using stats, personal stories and images of the community…
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Planet Word: Bringing Language to Life 2022
Planet Word Museum of Language recently tasked me with producing their third Annual Report, titled Bringing Language to Life. Described as “the museum where language comes to life,” Planet Word is an immersive language experience located at the historic Franklin School in Washington, D.C. Planet Word is the world’s first voice-activated museum, featuring immersive galleries…
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NLBID Market Impact Study 2023
The National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) is a public-private partnership established to promote and activate the area’s business, retail, restaurant and residential community. National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria…
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NLBID Strategic Framework: Embracing a Dynamic Future
The National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) is a public-private partnership established to promote and activate the area’s business, retail, restaurant and residential community. National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria…
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Housing Sustainability Advisors
This past fall, I completed logo and website design for a consulting group consisting of thought leaders in affordable housing development and finance, sustainability, and energy. Housing Sustainability Advisors (HSA) consult with non-profits, government agencies, affordable housing developers/owners, and companies nationally. Founded in 2020, the fundamental tenet of HSA is their belief of “access to…
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Catholic Charities DC “Comfort, Care and Compassion” 2022 Annual Report
The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington provides the District of Columbia with services including meals, healthcare, legal and financial assistance, housing and sheltering, and educational programs. Easily my favorite project of the year, my work with the communications team highlights the aforementioned areas of work using stats, personal stories and images of the community…
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Anchor
I am always thrilled when I get to support the endeavors of friends and former colleagues. It is even more rewarding when I am able to extract their vision from their brain. Anchor Collaborative Strategies is the brainchild of David Beard. The effort aims to “achieve the goals of organizations and agencies in their policy,…
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Crimson Moon Tavern
Founded in 2005, Crimson Moon is the only all-inclusive, hangout for the LGBTQ+ community. It is located in my former neighborhood of North Wilmington, Delaware. Known for its first floor video bar and second floor dance club, the venue suffered a fire in November 2021 that left them inoperable. Owner Don Bischoff said to WHYY,…
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NLBID: Equity Forward report
The National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) is a public-private partnership established to promote and activate the area’s business, retail, restaurant and residential community. National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria…
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Helping Hands – There After Foster Care
This past March, I completed logo design for a new nonprofit agency based in Boulder County, Colorado. Helping Hands – There After Foster Care is a charitable organization dedicated to helping young adults who are aging out of foster care, providing support and emergency funding for education, housing, medical aids, and other essential items. To…
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NDC Partnership 2021 Annual Report
Formed in 2016, the NDC Partnership brings together 197 members, 98 developing and 18 developed countries, as well as 81 institutions. Members work together to create and deliver on ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to achieve the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. The NDC Partnership tasked me to produce Partnership in Action: Driving Climate Ambition…
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Catholic Charities DC “Creating Light in Darkness” 2021 Annual Report
The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington provides the District of Columbia with services including meals, healthcare, legal and financial assistance, housing and sheltering, and educational programs. In 2020, CCADC served more than 235,000 people during a time of unprecedented challenges. Ultimately, their work reached 22 percent more people than the previous year. In addition,…