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    Balancing The Pain Scale
    Title Design for Documentary Trailer
    Digital Illustration - Dane County Land & Water Resources Department
    BACKGROUND: 24 x46inch digital illustration.

    MISSION: To teach people to consider their garden waste, dog waste and other habits around waste and trash disposal as it relates to the quality of water in our lakes, streams and rivers of Dane County.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design, Digital Illustration
    Social Media Image - Dane County Land & Water Resources Department
    Brand Design
    BACKGROUND: Small Startup in need of logo, style guide and usage guide.

    MISSION: Coastal Cleanup of plastic garbage and waste with a mission to recycle it.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design, Research, Illustration
    Festival Banner
    BACKGROUND: Pro Bono design for local organizationsfestival around a connecting bike trail between countryside and city.

    MISSION: Create colourful 'positive' graphic design that shows trails coming together between rural and urban.

    For use from business card size to large hanging banner.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design, Illustration
    Responsive Website Landing Page
    BACKGROUND: Pitch Design for a Travel Website.

    MISSION: Responsive landing, login and account pages for travel website.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Front End Design

    SECONDARY ROLE: Photography
    Audio Player UI
    BACKGROUND: UI Design for iOS music player app.

    MISSION: Upwork. Simple UI design for music player app. User can select colour. No cloud features, just plays.

    PRIMARY ROLE: UI Design
    Account Creation - Kids App
    BACKGROUND: Upwork. Kids Nature Journal 'Forest Friends' iOS iPad App account creation UI.

    MISSION: Too much going on with art and assets. Client needed to distill into a user interface experience that makes sense.

    PRIMRY ROLE: UI Design
    Personal Work
    Crashed Tie Fighter
    Book Design
    BACKGROUND: Book Designs for several clients.

    MISSION: Design compelling appropriate covers for a variety of books, from politics to archaeology and natural history, as well as contemporary and historical fiction & non-fiction.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Designer

    SECONDARY ROLE: Illustrator/retoucher
    Maryellen TV Console App
    BACKGROUND: App plus Toy interactive iOS app, which allowed intraction with the toy to deliver a fun peek into the past of TV entertainment from the 1950s, plus allowed you to create your own content.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Digital Producer / QA / Additional UI & Graphic Design
    Inner Star University
    BACKGROUND: Product based perpetual online world, based on the American Girl Book Series. Our claim to fame is we lasted longer that Legos first Online world venture :)


    PRIMARY ROLE: Digital Producer for world games and content / QA / Additional UI & Graphic Design as needed.
    Infographic Test
    BACKGROUND: Infographic Concept Test

    MISSION: Distill lots of information into an appealing human friendly infographic.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design
    Facebook Cover
    BACKGROUND: Sample for Upwork job.

    MISSION: Sample to secure freelance project.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design
    Fashion Photography-Digital Location Manager/Retoucher
    Retouching Work.
    Digital Location Crew.

    Photographer portfolio.
    Fashion Photography-Digital Location Manager/Retoucher
    Retouching Work.
    Digital Location Crew.

    Photographer portfolio.
    Fashion Photography-Retouching/Compositing
    Retouching Work.
    Digital Location Crew.

    Photographer portfolio.
    Fashion Photography-Retouching/Compositing
    Retouching Work.
    Digital Location Crew.

    Photographer portfolio.
    Game packaging and app icon design
    BACKGROUND: PC, DS packaging/sleeve art direction & design, and OS, Android/Kindle app icon design.

    MISSION: Support and reinforce brand, with physical product packaging & app icon design.

    Final product art.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Art Direction, Graphic Design, Retouching
    Online Experience
    BACKGROUND: Character product supporting online experience.

    MISSION: Create supporting online experience for 1950s character evocative of the style of the time.

    Concept of kids scrapbook, to draw kids into the characters world with information, videos, and timed unlocked content.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Art Direction/Project Manamement/ Concept Development/ Editorial Content

    SECONDARY ROLE: Additional UI Design, Illustration, Editorial Content
    iOS App front end & UI
    BACKGROUND: Front end design and UI for Character app.

    MISSION: Create supporting apps with front end and UI that leverage product & book art and create stand alone mobile persona.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Front End Design, UI Design

    SECONDARY ROLE: Graphic Design
    Kids Book Designs
    BACKGROUND: Book Cover and Interior Designs for American Girl/Mattel..

    MISSION: Design fun, compelling and appropriate covers for a variety of books - quiz, fiction, craft, choose your own ending and cook books for audiences aged 6-12.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Art Director, Graphic Designer

    SECONDARY ROLE: Illustrator/retoucher, Editorial Content Development
    Kids Book Art Direction
    BACKGROUND: Character product supporting fiction books & heavily illustrated books.

    MISSION: Create compelling books and illustrations to support toy product.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Art Direction, Graphic Design, Project Manamement, Concept Development

    SECONDARY ROLE: Illustration, Pattern Design, Editorial Development Partner
    Kids Book Art Direction
    BACKGROUND: Character product supporting fiction books & heavily illustrated books.

    MISSION: Create compelling books and illustrations to support toy product.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Art Direction, Graphic Design, Project Manamement, Concept Development

    SECONDARY ROLE: Illustration, Pattern Design, Editorial Development Partner
    Portfolio Piece
    BACKGROUND: Farewell Piece for longtime manager.

    MISSION: Create a fun contemporary illustration of her daughter - tween girl.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Illustrator
    Portfolio Piece
    BACKGROUND: Rose. The cutest, sweetest kid, who burst into tears when she discovered the Sith are the bad guys :)

    MISSION: Imagine Rose as a Sith.

    PRIMARY ROLE: Illustrator
    Natural History Book Design & Illustration
    BACKGROUND: Book and Guide Cover and Interior designs & Illustrations.

    MISSION: Create books to deliver natural history information in smaller guide size, and full sized nature guides.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Designer, Illustrator
    Natural History Illustrations
    BACKGROUND: Illustrations for Irish Parks System

    MISSION: Accurate natural History illustrations for guide and other print projects.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Illustrator
    Commission
    Peregrine Falcon

    Pencil, Acrylic
    Commission
    Fox and Standing Stone

    Pen & Ink
    Animated Social Post
    BACKGROUND: Sample for Upwork job.

    MISSION: Sample to secure freelance project.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Graphic Design
    Font Creation
    BACKGROUND: Font created for Zork Style boardgame creator.

    MISSION: Create a bitmap style book font complete with pixelated edges to replicate early 80's text based Zork games.


    PRIMARY ROLE: Font Creation
    Portfolio Piece
    Early Winter Prairie
    Instagram Post
    Social Piece for promoting healthy water in our lakes here on the Madison lakes.
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