2. Appalachia Technical School
Spring 2024
Appalachia Technical School’s goal is to provide free education to those getting released from prison in Appalachia. The brand was developed to help Appalachian folk break the generational trauma that has existed for hundreds of years. This brand's voice was made to be professional and educational while appealing to folks getting out of prison. I want this brand to appeal to folks who may not have continued their education after K-12 classes. I created a logo and promotional material that uses traditional educational typefaces paired with colors and imagery that relate to the Appalachian region.
6. In Bloom
Spring 2024
In Bloom was a branding project that created the identity of the Spring 2024 senior design show at Appalachian State University. We devised a design system that assigned each member of the show a flower that is significant to them. Together, the flowers came together to create a diverse bouquet. During this project, I helped the design team during reviews of the brand's development. After the brand's identity was developed I helped my team install the vinyl imagery and pamphlets throughout the gallery.
4. 055
Summer 2024
This August, the city of Florence decided they wanted to expand their current cultural initiative Estate Fiorentina to include local food producers and artisans. Their festival invites tourists and Florentine citizens to come out and enjoy locally produced food and have a refreshing walk in Cascine Park at night during the hottest days of August. I named the event 055 because this is the area code for Florence, Italy. Numbers transcend most languages. This name and the logo was made to appeal to locals and tourists because of its easy recognizability. The color family and imagery was chosen to represent Italian culture. Most of the colors were colors I found repeating throughout Florence. The typeface was influenced by the letterpress because of Florence’s long history of the letterpress. The structures and iconography featured with the logo are pulled from the architecture that exists in Cascine Park.
RISO Guidebook
I created the RISO Guide Book because I want all folks to have accessible information that encourages them to find the moments of joy granted through analog printing practices.
The Risograph was originally designed in the 1980s as a paper duplicator capable of producing large volumes at a fraction of the cost of traditional offset printing. It comes from a lineage of stencil duplicating but was developed to be more automated and efficient. The Risograph quickly gained popularity among schools, churches, small businesses, and community organizations that needed affordable, high-volume printing.
Because of the machines age, it can be quite finicky. This guidebook holds all the information needed to begin student’s RISO printing journeys.
1. Sonder
Spring 2024
Sonder is a collaborative book project between the seventeen students within the Appalachian States Book Arts Class from Spring 2024. We all visited the Nature Preserve on campus and decided to study the site to produce our book. After we all had time to sit and connect with the preserve we concluded that a complex life existed in the space. We felt sonder about the site. Throughout this project, I worked with the design team to create the book page compositions, layouts, and ideation of three variations. During the first stage of ideation, I contributed imagery. I helped develop the concepts behind the page cutouts and how we clarified the book's narrative to our audience. Toward the end of the project, I did the last pass through the book before it got sent to print.
5. Cultivating Practices
I created this publication to study Bauhaus, Postmodern, and Speculative design principles. This publication helped me develop a personal relationship to graphic design history. When typesetting each section I researched many pioneers from each era. Their design theory paired with each essay featured throughout the book were considered when I developed each section’s design system. All the essays and talks featured throughout this book correlate with the style they are typeset in.
8. Endangered Appalachia
Endangered Appalachia
All of the book forms are connected by a found poem about evolution and the species adapting to changes in their environments. This is a Riso printed series exploring how book forms can portray different storytelling methods while bringing awareness to endangered species in Appalachia. Their book forms are based on the species' physical characteristics and how they interact with their ecosystems.
7. Internal Landscapes
Spring 2024
When I leave a place I often feel new and like I am able to break away from the thoughts that were trapped in my old landscapes. This book displays images from many important places in my life. Writing that pairs with the images speaks to my reflections and old ideas attached to old locations. I grew up in some of the oldest land masses on Earth. My old selves are as tied to the land and much as my current self. This book captures how deeply knotted all versions of myself are to the lands I have lived and grown in.
1. Aquatic Appalachia RISO Animation
I remember walking down a road in Banner Elk and seeing life surviving in the smallest of streams created by the storm. These were quiet signs of survival. I studied the patterns and forms of the Candy Darter, Brook Trout, and Elktoe Mussel to create this series. I chose these three species because each is either endangered or facing population declines.
I hope to honor these small surviving lives and invite others to notice the life thriving in the overlooked Appalachian waterways.