Really into this process right now so here’s a few holiday lovelies for your Christmas season!
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I’m working on exploring creative flow a bit more but I sometimes find myself paralyzed by too many options, imposter syndrome, you name it. Free creating is still a stiff muscle for me.
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A week or so ago, my manager approached me with a rather unusual request. Her daughter, a high school senior, had been firmly against senior portraits, but the yearbook (and her mother) needed one and now they were in a bind. They only had a couple of weeks, didn’t have a professional budget, and her daughter was feeling awkward about it.
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So here they are, my five small but mighty contributions to Inktober 2020. Here’s to next year and a goal of six!
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Earlier this year, I designed the event branding for the Association of Midwest Museums’ 2019 conference. I continued the project this summer with the design of the 40+ page conference program. These are always fun, but in many ways they are a marathon. Content trickles in, advertising constrains come into play, rounds and rounds of copy edits—this is not a project for someone uninterested in details.
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This was a hard year. We grieve because we love.
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This winter I had the opportunity to put together another event identity for the Association of Midwest Museums.
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I’ve been really interested in cut paper and collage recently and was excited to be able to use that aesthetic at work this winter as I designed our Spring Luncheon invite, website, and social media.
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A bit more abstract than usual for me, but I’m really digging this palette.
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Spent an evening piecing together some old National Geographic pages.
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The final piece of the Minneapolis puzzle—our beautiful skyline. This one was intimidating to complete and I found myself creating filler buildings and leaning into color and shading over specific details, but I still love the way this has turned out.
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Retail design may indicate spring on the horizon, but we’re neck-deep in never-ending snow. To be honest though, I’m really okay with it. Don’t @ me.
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My church is hosting a session about redlining and the role it played in the segregation of Minneapolis, both in the past and its continued effect on the present. I love being part of a community that seeks to address inequalities and educate the wider community about our role in breaking down systemic oppression. I was more than happy to provide design assistance to help advertise this event.
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Last weekend I was in the wizarding world and for those of you that don’t know, electronics don’t work at Hogwarts so I obviously was unable to post anything. That said, this weekend I’ve got two weeks worth of things with which I’m currently fascinated and obsessed (a lot of which is Harry Potter, let’s be real). So put on some HP soundtracks, grab a chocolate frog, and get cracking on weird articles, videos, and blogs with me!
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I remember opening up my first Harry Potter book in the backseat of the Corsica, after making my parents drive me to Barnes & Noble just so I could get the book every person in the universe was talking about. I was admittedly skeptical (because I liked to be overly original...a budding hipster even then), but I can still remember the feeling I had reading the first chapter in the car—it was like a whole new world had opened up just for me.
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Way to Grow, an early childhood education nonprofit in Minneapolis, turns 30 this year. We’re getting ready to move into a fancy new office to accommodate our expanding staff and needs, but decades ago, Way to Grow started inside this little yellow house on Oliver Ave. in North Minneapolis.
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I constantly read, watch, and obsess over various design media and while I almost always share them on Twitter, I’d also like to have them on my blog as part of the narrative of things I’m looking at, thinking about, and exploring. I think there is some continuity here that I’d like to pay more attention to…
Inspired by some of my favorite newsletter that arrive weekly in my inbox, I’m going to try to post a weekly digest of all the things I’m reading, watching, and obsessed with, rather than post individual links and clutter up the feed.
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Despite having graduated from school only last month, I’m apparently already craving learning in my life. Or perhaps it’s the fact that as I look toward the next phase of my career, I see places where I want to grow and strengths I want to add to my toolbox. Regardless, lettering and illustration have both been uncomfortable places for me so I decided to take on Jessica Hische’s new Skillshare last weekend.
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