A proposed design for a documentary poster about a community’s reliance on a river and how development is threatening this way of life.
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Hummingbird Gardens
Hummingbird Gardens is a new venture that uses urban agriculture and school gardens as means of flavor exploration and environmental education. Based in Richmond, Virginia, the gardens were founded by Amanda Montgomery, a garden specialist passionate about local, organic food. Located on a half acre at Amanda’s home, plentiful herb and vegetable gardens will enable small […]
Continue Reading »Altered Archives—Marketing & Branding Case Study
This past summer I collaborated with Stephanie Dorrycott in producing Altered Archives, a full length multimedia dance show with her company, Motion X Dance DC, as a part of the 10th anniversary of the Capital Fringe Festival. Original choreography created by Stephanie, with guest choreography by Elysia Greene, was performed by six dancers against a backdrop of abstract video illustrations that I shot and edited. The show was presented five times at Gallaudet University in July. It was an incredible adventure and a ton of work—I have a whole new respect for event planners and performing artists.
Continue Reading »Cougar Paper’s Share Book
Some the client work I’ve done with Stokefire is featured in the Cougar paper company promotional book, Share on Cougar®. A physical copy was also displayed at the 2015 HOW Design Live Conference in Cougar’s Live Blueline Gallery as an example of a beautiful use of their paper.
Continue Reading »Creative Sprint Highlights
I joined a 30 day Creative Spring hosted by Another Limited Rebellion. You can follow along on social media by looking up the hashtag #CreativeSprint. Every morning an email with the day’s challenge arrives in my inbox and I take the opportunity to experiment creating something fast and furious.
Continue Reading »Adventures in DIY Letterpress
A review of the L Letterpress and the first project I tackled on it: wedding invitations.
Continue Reading »Calligraphic Gift Wrap
While working on calligraphy for my greeting card designs, I decided to make my warm up time useful by writing out Christmas carol lyrics. Now that the holidays have arrived, I’m adorning all my gifts with handmade ribbon and tags. Merry Christmas!
Continue Reading »Award winning stock photography?
I’ve just found out that Stokefire won the 2013 Platinum MarCom Award for a poster I designed to promote our summer open house. If you missed the roof-top shindig, you missed a good time, but don’t worry we didn’t drink all the booze and we’ll be hosting more events in the future on our penthouse deck. When […]
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