The Good Service was my MFA thesis project at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I spent a year examining American funeral and memorial customs to find ways...

The Good Service exhibition took place at the Maryland Institute College of Art in April 2012. With a display of natural, pre-industrial funeral artifacts and...

Elegy is a concept for an app that allows people to make curated memorial albums and share them via social media. I designed this as part of my MFA thesis...

This zine documents a co-creational exercise that explored collecting as memorial. I sent 18 people mason jars and asked them to place objects inside that tell a...

This 12.5"x19" poster was silkscreened and letterpressed using antique wood type from The Globe Poster Print collection in Baltimore. Edition of 35.

In this work of collaborative mapping, participants charted all the places they had been using map dots, markers, and a projection as a guide. When the projection...

Exhibition catalog for Division of Labor, featuring the work of 11 artists, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 2102.

I made this film to thank my husband for all he does to support me while I'm in graduate school.

This publication examines life as a template-based experience. It makes fun of contemporary trends toward "prosumerism" and "interconnectivity" by presenting them...

12.5"x19" silkscreen print featuring obliterated typography and a split fountain gradiant. Text reads "every text is eternally written," from Roland Barthe's The...

5.5"x4" letterpressed greeting cards starring my basset hound, Jolly. For this project, I experimented with making my own wood type. As you can see, the card...

I made this video after trying to decipher the lyrics to "Tumblin' Dice" by the Rolling Stones.

I wrote and designed this 12-page personal narrative after I attended a funeral. The story critiques death rituals through awkward moments with family and absurd...

I designed this book with my good friend Frances Close for AIGA Chicago. To demonstrate the value of collaboration, we put together seven teams of Chicagoland...

I drew two questions out of a hat and forced relationships between them. My colleagues in graduate school answered the questions. I listed various foodstuffs...

At a gallery event, I gave away copies of the template zine and displayed this oversized paint-by-number cemetery (which corresponded to the inside cover of the...

This concept for a brand of children's travel accessories features imaginary characters named after the Lewis & Clark expedition. They are: Li'l Lewis the leader,...

These are some things I designed for our wedding, a giant camp trip in Baraboo, Wisconsin: My friend Jaime Endick took some lovely photos: We had lots of help...

Letterpressed set of three sympathy cards, designed to provide ongoing support to a bereaved friend. Each card is meant to be sent over the course of a year. The...

This space at the Chicago History Museum promoted citywide events for the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. It was part of a year-long marketing campaign...

This is a concept for an online community of budget travelers. Members can organize their travels and contribute to a knowledge base that helps others plan better...

3-color silk screen print in two editions. This is the Small and Tidy edition of 10. 12.5"x19" with a silver-toned background. This is the Large and Sloppy...

Fun times with type design: an uppercase bifurcated serif with a sans serif sidekick.

The Complete Achievement is a line of printed home goods based on heraldic symbolism. I designed a trademark monogram and made three sizes of wood type for...

These public service announcements confronted myths about how HIV is transmitted. They were placed in high schools that partner with Project Kindle, a nonprofit...

Annual report for the Guild for the Blind, an Illinois nonprofit that helps the sight impaired.

Quarterly newsletter for Morris Animal Foundation for which I got to look at cute pictures of animals all day.

Series of letterpress greeting cards based on 18th-century gravestone symbols. Memento Mori, which means "Remember you will die," were popular reminders at that...

Buttons based on consumer packaging violators. Now, more buttony than ever! Pocket model: Young Sun Compton

Logo design for The Lisa Company, lead by Lisa Holton, a writer and producer with her roots in the newspaper industry and her sights set on digital media.

This annual report is for Morris Animal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds veterinary research. It celebrates unique animal bodies while telling the...