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I’m sure it’s no surprise that I love typography. I jump at any chance I get to create designs that boldly feature type. I especially love it when I can do this for logos and visual identities. I recently completed…

Branding can be challenging, especially when your business reaches across industries and encompasses multiple entities. But, with some creativity and a solid foundation of fonts, colors, and shapes, one can create a family of identities that all work well together.…

Simplicity in design can be very effective, particularly when it comes to branding. Logos and visual identities need to stand the test of time, work at both large and small scales, have personality, and work across digital and physical mediums.…

I’m a designer, and as such I often rework my own branding and website. I enjoy what I do and sometimes need to get ideas out while I’m in between other projects. I’ve been meaning to update my own website…

There’s an old saying to not “mix business with pleasure.” Sometimes, this can definitely be true. It would be unfortunate for one to ruin the other. But, I personally value people and relationships more than business. There are exceptions to…

I recently completed my largest freelance project to-date for Lux Writes. She’s the best-of-the-best strategist and copywriter, hands down. Every project I do with her is better than the last and we’ve been doing this type of work together for…

I absolutely love typography. My great grandmother used to hand-typeset newspapers in the late 19th century. I even have one of her old metal moveable pieces of type. It really is incredible how far things have come. My father, though…

I had the opportunity and privilege to work on a project with NIC Federal for the National Park Service.

I'm excited to annouce a new client! I'm very picky when it comes to my freelance clients these days (I really only work with a few).

I love collaborating with professionals and specialists. Though I fancy myself a digital jack-of-all-trades, I’m certainly no master-of-all-trades.

This purple that I've adopted is Pantone's 2014 Color of the Year – Radian Orchid. It's about creativity and confidence, warmth and friendliness.

I am a creative. I design and build things. I am continuously learning new techniques and have new inspirations. This can make it difficult to commit to my own visual branding.

For nearly a year now I've been gratefully utilizing Font Awesome's incredible CSS icon font but there have been a few icons that I thought were missing.