I Killed Sam is a novel by Robert A. Steadman based on the 1957 groundbreaking trial of a battered woman. The book is published by Mission Point Press and can be purchased here. My role: design and layout of book cover and interior pages.

Each year, KU Endowment sends out a faculty/staff direct mail. The theme varies, but in 2020, because of the pandemic, we considered making it purely a gratitude piece. I developed this concept of gratitude and appreciation cards (print and digital versions). Because of budget constraints, the project never got off the ground, but these pieces […]

The Spring 2021 issue of KU Giving focused on the restoration of Dyche Hall’s beloved Grotesques. My role: art directed photo shoots, gathered additional photos as needed, design & layout, creation of production files, press check, created files for use on the web and as a digital publication. The issue can be viewed online here.

Bruce Mathews, Kansas City-based photographer and president of the Mount Washington Historical Society, and Judith King, Mount Washington Historical Society board member, contacted me to design their historical book about the beautiful Mount Washington Cemetery. Over a year in the making, the book was published in Fall 2020. My role in this project was to […]

Each year, KU Endowment sends a winter mail appeal to all of its donors. This appeal is a general ask for our unrestricted support fund, a year-end gratitude message, and a premium piece. For the last several years, the premium piece has been a calendar. This year, I designed a pop-up style calendar with hidden […]

LaunchKU is KU Endowment’s crowdfunding platform. This year, the project manager requested a marketing video since it was difficult to educate the community about this platform (here’s looking at you, covid). I chose to reach out to a KU graduate motion animator to create this video. The video was scripted and a storyboard was developed. […]

One Day. One KU., KU Endowment’s annual Day of Giving campaign, is in its fourth year. This year was our largest fundraising effort ever, despite the pandemic. My role included: campaign branding; website design and development; co-managed website with our digital media strategist; designed and created website graphics and social media graphics, developed the digital […]

KU Endowment’s wrap up issue for the Far Above campaign. My role: Conducted photo booths across campus to get a collection of students and faculty photographs, contracted an illustrator (Gavin Snyder) to create the cover art, design & layout of magazine. Full publication can be viewed here.

Book design. My role: Collaborated with author to make her vision come to life. This project was a ton of fun and allowed for a lot of girly elements and colors to be incorporated.

Book design done as a freelance designer for the KC Star book division. My role in this book included collaborating with the editor and photographer to conceptualize the photography of all the quilts and the direction of the design in the book itself. Font choices were my own. Particular care is paid toward ensuring the […]