Odds & Ends, smaller projects, design sprints, previews, and ideas left behind (but never forgotten).

Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO)
Integrated Branding

Full case study coming soon. Made at SimpsonScarborough.

Role: Creative direction, Design
Design: Amber Koski, Amanda Caskey
Writing: Bilal Sheik, Emily Barriball
Video Production: Outsider Video & Motion
Web UX/UI: Dan Moore, Sam Gates

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Albertus Magnus College
Athletics Identity

Finished work, part of a larger identity refresh that is not yet released.
Made at SimpsonScarborough.
Role: Creative Direction, Design
Design support: Dempsey Ewan

Indiana State University
Brand Concept

Unused concept, designed at SimpsonScarborough.
Creative lead - Jason Gonzales
Writing - Bilal Sheik

Echo Spirits
Package Design

Label design, custom type and illustration for Elusive, Echo's first liqueur created by hand by Derek Reno. Positioned to fill the void left by the shortage of a certain green elixir made by carthusian monks, it was a labor of love for all involved, and dedicated to the love of the craft (and we all really just wanted a Last Word.) The design features illustrations of each of the product's dozens of ingredients and mirrors the complexity of the spirit inside.

Gemüt Biergarten
Screen Print

A screen print for Prints & Pints 7 (2024).
Printed by Upright Press. 7 colors on metallic gold foil.
Poetry by Gemüt. 

This print, and it's namesake bier, Alfheim, celebrates Freyr, the norse god representing kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest. He's shown atop his golden boar, Gullinbursti, with several references to other symbols and myths from Alfheim, the realm of the light elves which he rules.

I approached the print in the style of the incredible stained glass panels that adorn the brewery, to tell a different story of Alfheim.

Rice University
Campaign Concept

Unused concept. Made at SimpsonScarborough.

Untitled Typeface
Type Design

Work in progress, personal project.

Capital University
Brand Concept

Unused concept. Designed at Nonfiction.

Pocus
Web Design & Brand Refresh

Finished work. Designed at Nonfiction.

Role: Art Direction, Design
Design: Jacob Strous
Creative Direction: Neil Wengerd

Future Fans
Brand Concept

Unused concept. Designed at Nonfiction.

Sandbar
Event Identity

Identity for an annual tiki bar pop-up. Freelance commission.

Sandbar
Menu Illustration

Menu illustrations for an annual tiki bar pop-up. Freelance commission.

Berkeley Haas Fund
Sub-Brand

Fundraising identity for the Haas Fund, the general fund at Berkeley Haas school of Business. Work completed at Nonfiction. 

Role: Design
Design: Lauren Haase
Creative Direction: Neil Wengerd
PM: Kimmy Alexander

Archived Case Study

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annual Giving Campaign

Fundraising case for support kit. Work completed at Nonfiction. 

Role: Design, Production Design
Creative Direction: Neil Wengerd
Writing: Jason Shough
PM: Kimmy Alexander

Huntington Bank
Apparel Design

Concepts and finished work for Huntington's Pelotonia team. Designed at Nonfiction.

CSCA Pinewood Derby
Event Branding

Design, programming, and production for the 2019 edition of the annual student scholarship fundraiser.

Archived case study

Stories and Sips
Brand Concept

Unused concept. Designed at Nonfiction.

In a New Light
Book

Photo retouching, archival color correction, and production design for In a New Light, a catalog for the Columbus Museum of Art's exhibition of watercolor work by Alice Schille. Made at Nonfiction.

Creative Direction: Neil Wengerd
Design: Madison Rhodes
Writing: Chris Duckworth

Process Interactive
Logo Concept

Unused concept, designed at Nonfiction.

CSCA
Event Poster

Finished work, volunteer event programming.

Zauber Brewing Co.
Can Design

Finished work, unfortunately never produced (the brewery was sold shortly after.) Made at Fulcrum Creatives.

Role: Design
Creative Direction: Jason Moore, Sami Nummi

Wonderball
Print & Photography

Event collateral for Wonderball, the Columbus Museum of Art's annual fundraiser. Made at Fulcrum Creatives.

Role: Design, Photography
Creative Direction: Sami Nummi

Fujifilm Pixel Font
Type Design

Finished work, personal project.

Hopkins Printing
Calendar Design

Finished work, designed at Nonfiction.

Commonhouse Ales
Photography

Product photography. Made at Fulcrum Creatives.

Chroma
Photography

To support and promote our senior thesis exhibition at CCAD (Chroma), we created an art direction as an expression of the event branding and executed a photoshoot of over 200 of our peers.

To pull it off, we developed the technical approach through a few test shoots, experimenting with the best ways to achieve extreme color saturation in a very isolated, modular, and controllable way that we could change on the fly. By doing this, we could create retouching profiles in advance for each color channel we were using and tether the camera, essentially doing 90% of our retouching during the shoot itself.

It was a completely self-initiated project by us and the rest of the team of student organizers who were naming, branding, and programming the show together, and quickly grew to become a much larger moment and point of excitement for the entire class ahead of the show. I still love how much joy and personality shows up in the images.

All photography, lighting, and retouching by myself and Collins Läatsch.