i have been working at designing and creating the web for over 12 years. after over nine years of working with clients on projects of all sizes, here is a small collection of my work. to filter the entries by project type, please select a category below.
One day i got an email via facebook asking if i would play the drums on the main stage at milwaukee’s pridefest. Of course i agreed and met Emily White shortly after, when she dropped off two CDs for me to practice with. After a quick “talk through” of the songs the morning before going on stage, this was our first official time playing together as a trio. the following video is a collection of raw video captured by the official Pridefest videographer (and my good friend) Jessica Janiuk. And i would be that girl drummer making all the strange faces while playing (and ps, go check out Emily White’s music. she is very talented and a joy to play music with)
on the porch is a milwaukee based band that was just starting off and came to me for a poster and cd cover layout design. in order to do these two design projects, i also put together a quick photo shoot so the band had some high quality images to use for their marketing materials. here are a few shots from that.
the cream city milwaukee group on flickr.com has a photowalk every month. in may 2008 the walk was through the walker’s point neighborhood here in milwaukee. here are some of my pictures from that photo walk. some pictures are more heavily manipulated with photoshop (including some HDR photography). to see more of my photos from that walk, take a look over here.
the goal for this website was to create something that could be very easily updated. so i set up the whole site on wordpress, and gave pastor gaeta the login information and let her go to town with adding content. i also created a flickr account to make it easy for anyone to upload more pictures.
after joining divine word lutheran church, i was quickly put to work with helping out. one of the first projects was a logo design. after several other ideas, this design was created using an actual small communion glass from the church that is used every week. one of aspects that stood out to me about this church (and one of the main reasons for joining) was the strong sense of community. in a very diverse congregation, in a very diverse area of the city, the community remains one of the key elements of this church body. another goal of the logo design was to illustrate the “traditional” and the “new” coinciding together in harmony. also it was my distinct goal to stay away from any form of cross, for many reasons. but the main reason is because many of the church members and visitors have been hurt by, discriminated against, or just plain rejected by Christians and people who claim to be Christian. divine word lutheran is a much different church, and needed to be represented as such.
the miltown kings are a drag king troupe here in milwaukee. their website was very out of date and not very user friendly to update. since most of the “kings” had full time jobs and were not web programmers, they needed a website that could fit around them. also, through getting to know them personally, i learned how much deeper the troupe’s passion was. the drag kings had plenty of fun, but were serious about social justice and raising awareness for a wide variety of causes and organizations. this website includes space for all of those aspects, as well as an easy to use “back end” so that anyone can update the website. i also had the opportunity to be the official photographer for one of their shows. (those photos can be found here.)
these are just two examples of our jazz quartet’s upcoming gig posters. i always make them in two sizes: larger ones to hang up places, and smaller quarter page handouts to give to people.
a logo design for a small church on the east side of milwaukee. logo is created using the actual stained glass window of the church. focus on the play between traditional and contemporary was very important here.
i worked for 6 months as the art director / graphic designer / web designer / photographer (etc.) for a small local milwaukee bookstore chain. Â these are just a couple of the simple black and white ads that i created.Â
(and ps, go check out Emily White’s music. she is very talented and a joy to play music with)
