I designed and art directed a series of 7-Minute Workouts for The Washington Post. Each iteration of the workout is for a new, unique audience.
See the live stories here:
The Original 7-Minute Workout
The Gentle 7-Minute Workout
The Power 7-Minute Workout
The 7-Minute Workout with Kids
3D Animation by Christa Jarrold.
Design and Dev support by Carson Terbush.
Workouts created by Chris Jordan.
Story written by Gretchen Reynolds.
Gratefull (originally named One Table) is a city-wide Thanksgiving potluck that takes place at one long table in the middle of a city street. In 2014, I helped start the event with my team at Causeway in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2018, we had so much interest from people who wanted to replicate the event that we changed the name to abide by copyright laws. This is the new brand and campaign we used to launch the new identity for a beloved local event. We also created an open source toolkit to guide groups in other cities who wanted to replicate the idea. Since then it’s been replicated in seven other cities and towns, and featured in the Washington Post. The event still happens in Chattanooga every year, led by River City Company.
I collaborated with Mark Walter and Ben Dicks on the logotype, and with 26 Tools on the renaming of the event in 2018.
Sway is an eight-session course for artists, activists, and grassroots leaders who want to tap into their own power to make a change in their neighborhood. I was hired by Glass House Collective to give the program a name and a tagline, and to design a brand, a website, and two versions of the eight-session curriculum: one for a student, and one for a facilitator. The content of this project was co-created with Michael Gilliland and Erika Roberts.
You can see a full PDF of the Facilitator’s guide here.
The Causeway Challenge was a reoccurring grant program for neighborhood leaders. Each round poses a new question to the community. As the Creative Director at Causeway, I created a design system that was flexible but recognizable, so that each new round would feel fresh and unique tied to the new topic, while still being connected to an established program.
Causeway Challenge Two features an illustration that I commissioned from Josiah Golson. The rest were created by me using a variety of mediums including ink, collage, and cut paper.
I designed and art directed this interactive story for The Washington Post that allowed people to get a custom assessment around key fitness markers based on their age and gender. You can view the live story here.
Illustrations by Miguel Monkc. Design collaboration and development by Carson TerBush. Story by Gretchen Reynolds.
This project received an Award of Excellence from the Society of News Design in 2025. It was the 6th most-read story at The Washington Post in all of 2024.
In 2021, I won a grant through the Up/Start program at MICA to turn my Etsy shop into a business.
I designed a brand and website for my business, Garden Party Press, which makes custom floal portraits where each person is represented by their birth month flower. The website contains an interactive tool that allows users to see their print as they build it.
The business was featured in Print Magazine.
Books We Love is NPR’s annual list of the best books released that year. Previously called Books Concierge, the team was looking for a brand that would better connect with younger readers, and reflect the energy put into curating the list.
I created a character with the intention of it being re-imagined by a new illustrator each year. The signature pencil and round glasses will stay, but everything else about her is up for interpretation with that year’s release, creating a brand that is memorable but stays fresh.
I designed and art directed this interactive story for The Washington Post about why songs get stuck in our head, and how to stop it. You can read the live story here.
Story by Richard Sima.
Illustrations by George Wylesol.
Design and Development collaboration by Tucker Harris.
In 2015, a group of people who worked in Chattanooga’s new Innovation District started playing bingo with a group of residents from Patten Towers, the public housing unit across the street. As a result of the relationships built there, after hearing about the needs of the residents, we opened a small grocery store on the ground floor of Patten Towers called Bingo’s Market. This project was a collaboration between Causeway, The YMCA of Greater Chattanooga, and The Enterprise Center.
I collaborated on the branding with Aggie Toppins. We wanted to create a brand that honored the roots of the project, and felt at home in the space, while also being welcoming to people who lived outside of the building, in order for the project to be more financially sustainable.
This project was featured in Next City in 2017.
I designed and art directed this interactive experience to help Washington Post readers choose a “nudge word” to guide their 2025. You can see the live story here.
Illustrations by Abbey Lossing.
Development by Leslie Shapiro.
