An art school grad in the age of AI I had an unconventional partnership recently: a client I’ve worked with – an organization in the education sector – reached out to see if I would be willing to mentor one of their students, Amani, a first-generation college student in art school. In writing up the…
From the moment designers take on their first client, the gap between school and professional design work is real. The biggest challenge for emerging designers isn’t learning how to design, it’s learning how to design within the realities of clients, constraints, and collaboration. Bottom Line set out to close that gap by pairing a graduating…
I don’t often single out a specific project to highlight on the blog, but this one is special. First Baptist Church of Indianapolis reached out to me with an unusual request: they had an event where the congregation collectively drafted a poem, about diversity and inclusion within the church community. Could I illustrate the poem…
“Making an engaging presentation is hard. We forget to Show & Tell.” – Dan Roam, author I was recently invited to be a guest speaker for a monthly call for a group of engineering educators working in higher ed, who will all be presenting research posters at an upcoming in-person conference. I was asked to…
In this week’s installment of #throwbackthursday, I’m throwing it way back to when I was in my late 20s/early 30s. It was the 90s/early 2000s and I was living in NYC and working as an environmental educator (more on that in a later post). To supplement my income I made jewelry from beach glass and…
