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2021 Annual Appeal
Every fall at The Current, I design an appeal to bring in donations so we can continue to provide local stories to the community. The chair of the board provides both a title for the campaign and the copy, and then I create a design. This design received 1st Place at the National Newspaper Awards for Best Newspaper Promotion.
Newspaper Page Design
Above are examples of award-winning page designs. The first two designs, "Playing the Bones" and "The Artist Next Door: Lesile Horan Simon," showcase artists in the community and both won Best Page Design from the New York News Publishers Association.
The spread on the right side is a community campaign where readers could submit Valentine’s Day notes to their loved ones. (The majority of the ads on the spread were also designed by me.) The design won Best Newspaper Promotion from the National Newspaper Association.
PLAYBILL: Surveying Covers
Across Decades
For my final project at the University at Buffalo, we were instructed to design an interactive book. I have a love for musical theater and specifically the history of artwork used by productions since Broadway’s inception. This spiral book is divided into three sections that could each be turned individually for the reader to compare and contrast the cover designs from 1944–1965, 1967–1971, and 1974–2016.