A Maid of Honor looking to make her bride’s Parisian-themed bridal shower extra special approached me for help. She asked if I could make a chalkboard sign for the party that celebrates the special love of the bride and groom. The result is a large poster that the MoH was able to take to her… [Continue Reading]
District Capital Management Identity
District Capital Management is a DC-area team of top-notch investment and financial planning professionals. The team wanted an edgy logo to represent a fresh but reliable approach to investment services, and the identity I created for them is just that—a play on a traditional bull symbol combined with a compass motif, pointing the way to… [Continue Reading]
How I work: designing a cover for Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Not too long ago, Aleks Jakulin of publishing startup Ganxy alerted me of a really great initiative. Recovering the Classics is a project organized by The Creative Action Network to crowdsource fresh new looks for beloved books (Zing! You guys need a new slogan?), in order to reignite interest in classic literature. Obviously, I signed up… [Continue Reading]
Have a good meeting.
How can you challenge yourself to make a tiny improvement to a routine task? While sitting in a meeting last week, I realized that the way people took notes sharply impacted their ability to implement meaningful change after a meeting. That made me wonder if making changes to the note-taking environment (i.e., the paper you… [Continue Reading]
Bloom!
I’m pretty excited about this tiny little project I put together yesterday. It’s… bloom! I’m inspired by the Quantified Self movement and truly believe that self-tracking is a key habit, one that necessarily leads to positive behavior change and overall well-being. For the last few months, I’ve been looking for a starter self-tracking project that… [Continue Reading]