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MAINE COLLEGE OF ART

 

LADIES ADVENTURE CLUB

Logo / identity / web design 
waterbottles / patches / email template

Share adventures, learn skills, and gain insights.

The Ladies Adventure Club is a women's organization that connects members through local events and outdoor activities. Members regularly join adventures that range from kayaking to biking or skiing.

BANDED HORN BREWING

Posters — print+web / social media ad graphics

Banded Horn Brewing Company is located within the 150-year-old Pepperell Mill complex in Biddeford, Maine. They strive for a harmony of flavors with each brew, from traditional styles to cutting-edge beers that defy classification. 

PORTLAND BACH FESTIVAL

Identity / logo / print collateral

The Portland Bach Festival is a six-day festival located in Portland, Maine. Visitors can enjoy activities like concerts in the round, lectures, masterclasses, open rehearsals, and beer on the waterfront events. All concerts are within intimate spaces, so one can be close to the musicians and close to the music.

YOU ARE MADE OF STARS

GEARY'S SUMMER ALE

Packaging

Each year, the D.L. Geary Brewing Company holds a competition at the Maine College of Art to design the summer packaging.

My submitted packaging was the Winner of the Geary’s Summer Ale Design Competition in 2014. Along with being awarded a $5,000 Scholarship, the work is featured on Geary’s Summer Packaging which has more than 1 million units distributed on the East coast.

Soccer/beer image by Brian Wright.

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Second packaging design was a separate submission of a starry, warm camping scene.

CALENDAR

12-month calendar layout designed using my pattern and textures. 8" x 5.5", 110lb cardstock.

POSTERS

Print & web posters

AUDIO BOOK CAMPAIGN

A summer awareness campaign, targeted for teens on Tumblr, to download two free audiobooks each week.

PATTERNS & TEXTURES

Pattern and texture exploration in various materials: watercolor, marker, collage, digital manipulation, and photography.

Images 1, 11, and 12 are owned by Mad Gabs. Patterns are used in makeup packaging, designed by Pulp + Wire, located in Portland, Maine.

Images 4–7 are owned by angela adams, located in Portland, Maine. Collages are for the blog; photography of rugs are for a marketing campaign.

GOOD MEDICINE LOGO

Logo created in collaboration with NASHBOX, a graphic design studio founded by Scott Nash.

YOUTH HEALTH CAMPAIGN

South Portland Unite & Westbrook Community Cares

A series of infographic handouts based on statistics of drug use in high school, along with advice and resources. Each one-sheet customized for the demographics of students, parents, police, and community. After the initial launch, other Maine towns commissioned individualized materials for their public health campaigns.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT CAMPAIGN

Opportunity AllianceFor 50 years, The Opportunity Alliance has provided advocacy, leadership, and support to help individuals, families, and communities to identify goals and address their needs. 

Community Campaign: Resources on Substance Abuse
Translated from English to nine languages highly used in the Portland community. Worked closely with a translator to check the accuracy of writing and design. Handouts offer information about substance abuse and community resources.

SPRING BREAK SAFETY CAMPAIGN

Opportunity Alliance
For 50 years, The Opportunity Alliance has provided advocacy, leadership, and support to help individuals, families, and communities to identify goals and address their needs. 

Access Health
Access Health is a comprehensive community health coalition, comprised of community partners working to improve health and well-being, as well as prevent chronic disease in our region.

Don’t Stop the Party - Campaign
Social media campaign to discourage underage drinking by emphasizing the consequences. First commissioned by Opportunity Alliance and Maine Prevention Services; revised with permission for Access Health.

CASCO BAY FERRY LINES

“Casco Bay Lines is a ferry system that provides year-round passenger, freight, postal and vehicle ferry service to the islands of Casco Bay from Portland, Maine.”

The current brochure for the ferry schedules is static and hard to read. Redesigning the visual language, the ferry schedules are now much clearer and easier to navigate through. Using an icon system, I provide the new visitors to the islands to see what activities are available on each island.

Along with the brochure, a cell phone app was created to provide an interactive schedule, see route delays, find out the weather, tides, times for the sunset and sunrise, and an interactive “island match” feature to figure out what destination would be the best fit for the visitor based on their preferred activities.

PEAKS ISLAND EXPLORATION

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Peaks Island: Overheard, Discovered, and Perceived is a series of four books documenting my different trips to Peaks Island, Maine. Using the elements of photographs and recorded conversations that I  saw and overheard allows me to exemplify the life of the island.

SHEEPSCOT MEDICINALS

SPRINTS BOOK

Semi-finalist entry in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2013 in the Publishing category.

Experimental typography created from tweets in a process called sprints. Each sprint layout was then placed into a spread and created into a book with a wrap around cover.

See the entire book on Issuu.

FOLKESAGN

Recently, I have delved into Scandinavian folklore. The personalities and actions of its mythical creatures are fascinating to me. These desires, combined with an interest in branding, led me to imagine a dinner theatre called Folkesagn. Folkesagn hosts performances based on Scandinavian folklores and serves Scandinavian cuisine.

Within the identity, I explore folklores being retold over generations and morphing within that time, along with the plays being communicated through abstraction. By creating and establishing a visual language and guidelines, the pieces of the identity for my dinner theatre will be cohesive and evoke a sense of visual storytelling.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Images before the divider are owned by angela adams; images after divider are mine.

ROAM

Logo

For the past thirty years, Gallery Leather Company has been handcrafting exceptional leather products. They now want to create a new line products for a younger, more adventurous generation.

SAFE STORAGE CAMPAIGN

Opportunity Alliance
For 50 years, The Opportunity Alliance has provided advocacy, leadership, and support to help individuals, families, and communities to identify goals and address their needs.

Safe Storage - Awareness & Advice
A marketing campaign consisting of print posters and social media graphics. Because of the use of consistent materials, the local community received accurate information and recommended tips for the best practices to protect youth and teens.

EMPOWER COÖS YOUTH

“The Empower Coös Youth public awareness campaign was inspired by the idea of having students directly in engaged with the data coming out of the Coos Youth Study and developing strategies for sharing that data with the broader community.”

Designed in collaboration with Longstocking Design.

BEDROOM BOOK

Inspired by how a bedroom is able to illustrate a story about the individual that lives inside of it, this book revolves around exploring the bedrooms of nine individuals between the ages of 19 and 24 that live in Portland, Maine.

See the whole book on Issuu.

TIED BOOK

A book which highlights the exploration in becoming more acquainted with individuals at the Maine College of Art through a series of questions, hand prints, and photographs during the fall of 2011.

MAINE COLLEGE OF ART

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LADIES ADVENTURE CLUB

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BANDED HORN BREWING

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PORTLAND BACH FESTIVAL

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YOU ARE MADE OF STARS

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GEARY'S SUMMER ALE

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CALENDAR

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POSTERS

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AUDIO BOOK CAMPAIGN

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PATTERNS & TEXTURES

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GOOD MEDICINE LOGO

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YOUTH HEALTH CAMPAIGN

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT CAMPAIGN

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SPRING BREAK SAFETY CAMPAIGN

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CASCO BAY FERRY LINES

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PEAKS ISLAND EXPLORATION

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SHEEPSCOT MEDICINALS

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SPRINTS BOOK

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FOLKESAGN

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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ROAM

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SAFE STORAGE CAMPAIGN

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EMPOWER COÖS YOUTH

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BEDROOM BOOK

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TIED BOOK

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