I heart my nieces

November 20th, 2008

Wanted to take a minute to show off my beautiful nieces and some of my design work at the same time … I designed these birth announcements for my sister-in-law and my brother for their baby girl, born in early September. Isn’t she beautiful?
If you want more, I wrote about them here not too long [...]


#nanowrimo book cover design!

October 23rd, 2008

As you know if you’re following this, I won’t actually start writing the book until Nov. 1. But I have character sketches, a plot outline, and a working title. Why not go ahead and design the cover?
I should clarify I do this for a living - so it’s a bit instinctual for me to want to [...]


“I designed my own …”

September 23rd, 2008

As a graphic designer who does custom commissioned work, my job is to listen to my clients and create designs based on their wants and needs. I am not a puppet reproducing the work exactly as they request it; I am adding my own style to each piece and making certain that the pieces are [...]


September 11, 2001

September 11th, 2008

On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have - not just on the [...]