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  • Planet Word: Juneteenth Literary Jubilee 2025

    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…

  • Planet Word: Literacy Liftoff!

    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…

  • Planet Word: Go Bananas! for Idioms! Spanish Illustrations

    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…

  • 38th Annual Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV

    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…

  • Essie Chambers’ Swift River Social Media Graphics

    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…

  • Casey Foundation Social Media Graphics

    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…

  • Planet Word: Enchanted Pages

    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…

  • Housing Sustainability Advisors

    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…

  • Anchor

    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,…

  • Crimson Moon Tavern

    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,…

  • NLBID: Equity Forward report

    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…

  • Helping Hands – There After Foster Care

    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…

  • NDC Partnership 2021 Annual Report

    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…

  • The Blueprint

    The Blueprint

    This past year was bookended by grassroots political advocacy for me. Come to think of it, while living in Washington DC most years are, but in 2020, work came to me from all areas of the spectrum.  The mission of The Blueprint? The tagline “Shifting purple counties to blue” highlights their plan of building community around Democratic…

  • Pennsylvania Ave East Main Street

    Pennsylvania Ave East Main Street

    In the Spring of 2021, I was fortunate to collaborate with my colleague Maria Mandle of CreativeCouch Designs on the design of materials for the Pennsylvania Avenue East Main Street. Established in 2020, PAEMS is a member of DC Main Streets, which revitalizes communities by retaining and recruiting businesses, improving commercial properties and streetscapes, and…

  • 43 Alumni for Biden

    43 Alumni for Biden

    In early June, the fine folks at Verified Strategy and I completed design on the new effort dubbed 43 ALUMNI FOR BIDEN. This super PAC refers to the 43rd U.S. president, George W. Bush and the former Vice President, Joe Biden. I tend to stay away from overtly political design work, but this piece had…

  • NDC Partnership in Action: Three Years On

    NDC Partnership in Action: Three Years On

    Formed in 2016, the NDC Partnership is a coalition of governments and international institutions working together to ensure countries receive the tools and support they need to achieve ambitious climate and sustainable development targets as fast and effectively as possible. The NDC Partnership recently tasked me to produce their 2019 Annual Report, which was unveiled…

  • CUP 2019 LA Entertainment Summit

    CUP 2019 LA Entertainment Summit

    I recently completed design on The Council of Urban Professionals’ 2019 LA Entertainment Summit, subtitled “Courage to Lead.” Held on Saturday, October 19 from Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, CA, I created key art for the save the date including a silhouette of an urban man and woman with various Hollywood scenery in a watercolor…

  • Project: Time Off Website Redesign

    Project: Time Off Website Redesign

    Earlier this year, I designed the relaunch of ProjectTimeOff.com, an effort that wants Americans to reclaim their vacation days, travel the country, and reap the benefits of a true break. Visit ProjectTimeOff.com or USTravel.org to learn more.