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This private webpage accessible via direct link features projects I worked on at Chronicle Books, Deck’d Media, and personal projects. Thank you for reviewing!
Chronicle Fellowship Promotional Material
- Illustrated and designed two poster concepts
- Adapted both into postcards
- Adapted final poster into web graphics of various formats
Earth is a Living Thing
Freelance Project in Progress
- Designed with pre-existing paintings licensed for use in the book
- Illustrated ornaments for cover
- Re-paginated and created a cast-off document when the specs shifted from 68 pp at 8.5x11” to 96 pp at 6x8”
LEGO 2026 Easter Puzzle
- Collaborated with Design and Editorial to establish a visual identity for a new line of LEGO holiday-themed puzzles
- Reconfigured and manipulated vector graphics from LEGO’s Spring 2026 Easter Style Guide in accordance to their parent brand guidelines
- Pitched puzzle art concepts by building, photographing, and digitally collaging LEGO sets
- Assisted photographer on a 7 hour shoot for final puzzle art
When Twilight Comes
- Designed jacket
- Performed extensive editing to final art (traditional paintings) using Photoshop
- Dissected cover art into 15 individual component layers in order to adjust composition, animal size, and contrast
- Applied Spot UV to cover
- Created icon system for animal info in back matter
Ellie Engle Saves Herself!
Credits: Art Direction, Illustration, Design
A redesign of Ellie Engle Saves Herself, a Middle grade novel written by Leah Johnson
Balloon
- Designed jacket and endpapers
- Created a Pantone test sheet exploring two different Pantone swatches and a variety of treatment methods and opacities
- Converted orange colors in art from CMYK to Pantone
- Illustrated minor adjustments to address continuity notes from managing editorial
Assorted Book Covers
Credit: Design, Art Direction, Illustration
All redesigns for published books
Together on Eid
- Performed typeface exploration and interior text layout
- Experimented with adding hand-painted textures to cover title
- Hand-edited letterforms on cover to improve readability
Their Story is Our Story
Freelance Project in Progress
- Art directs alongside editor
- Text layout, typeface exploration
How’d They Make That?! Incredible Stadiums
- Developed a typographic system of headers, subheaders, running texts, captions, call outs, and sidebars, to organize information
- Edited art layout to harmonize with text, performed art edits and created minor visual assets
Henry and Friends Boxed Set
- Designed box packaging for first three Henry books
The Story of Gumluck Boxed Set
- Designed box packaging for first three Gumluck books
Tiny T. Rex Picture Book Boxed Set
- Designed box packaging for first three Tiny T. Rex books
Secrets of the Jellies
- Isolated jellyfish spot art from interior illustrations, then matched each one to its species by searching through artist’s Photoshop file layer names and comparing to Google Images
- Selected individual layers from artist’s Photoshop files and filtered them in order to create back matter backgrounds
Baby Finger Puppet Series
- Worked closely with production and outside manufacturing partner to create puppet heads, going through three rounds of prototypes, exploring different colors, fabric types, and head shapes, and use of embroidery
- Communicated as the point person with the artist and art directed alongside other designer and editor
Belonging
Freelance Project in Progress
- Please note that all illustrations are placeholder photographs of physical paintings, currently awaiting official scans
- Art directed alongside lead designer and editors
- Text layout, typeface exploration
“Reach Out” Poster Duo
Credit: Design
A poster set created based on song lyrics from “Reach Out” by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine
Sand Box
Credit: Design, Art Direction, Illustration
Savory Baking
Credit: Design
A redesign of three spreads from Savory Baking by Erin Jeanne McDowell
Vivitar Packaging
Credit: Design
Professional project for a client that I completed at my marketing agency position before Chronicle
Vivitar Social Media
Credits: Design, photo sourcing, content generation