• Health in Harmony: Annual Appeal

    Creative

    This is our sixth collaboration with Health in Harmony on its annual appeal. This year, the message was momentum and building on it. Our visual strategy was to balance a clean, modern composition (mirroring the top notch healthcare the organization provides) with the faces and textures of the population they serve. Too many families in the developing world face a tragic Catch-22: the only way to put food on the table today is to log and destroy the same forest they'll depend on tomorrow. Almost literally, they must saw off the same limb they're standing on. But faced with the tragic choice of saving their children or saving their forests, they have no alternative...

  • Portland Leaf Day Campaign

    Brand/Creative Strategy, Creative

    After a disastrous launch of Portland's leaf removal program the year before – without explanation, the city started charging residents for a service that had always been free – the city asked my firm to relaunch, help explain and build momentum for the program. I renamed the program "Leaf Day," emphasized the value of our urban forest and, therefore, why Portlanders should invest in it. With designer Cat Cheng, I created a logo and identity for the program, and created all the program materials for the first year, including brochure, door hangers, a poster, and one of the best online resources about the benefits of urban forest on the internet.

  • Shasta Dam

    Photography

    Epic structures like this always inspire a kind of incredulous awe in me, and not only because of their towering mass. I mean, the idea — to say nothing of making good on it — that you could stop the flow of an entire watershed and harness it like a horse: it’s madness. And yet there it is, blotting out the sun before you, powering entire cities below, an artifact of a time when we thought the sheer force of our will could command nature itself with nothing but good coursing down the spillway on the other side.

  • Comic Touch UX/UI

    Creative, User Experience (UX) + Design (UI)

    User experience, user interface, brand strategy, and 64 cover templates for Comic Touch, an app from Plasq that puts "your life on a comic book cover!" Just point your camera at the funny near you. Swipe left and right to choose a cover design overlay that fits your situation, add witty repartee and graphics, texturize your look, and then share it with the world!

  • Precision Castparts

    Brand/Creative Strategy, User Experience (UX) + Design (UI)

    We successfully designed and developed the first corporate home site for this multinational company in 2001, so we were honored to be asked to significantly re-envision the site over the last nine months. Leveraging in-house IT staff for implementation, we specified a CMS platform and then recast the entire structure of the site to mirror PCC’s business areas and serve its key audiences. The result is lean and focused, like the company itself.

  • Reed College Centennial

    Brand/Creative Strategy, Creative, Photography, User Experience (UX) + Design (UI)

    Design, messaging strategy, art direction of archival imagery, and development of this dual-purpose site celebrating Reed’s first 100 years, and launching a $200-million fundraising effort. For Reed's Centennial, we advised on and concocted some of the major messaging, then designed the core Centennial brand, the three sites below, as well as a "case statement" for the Campaign and a host of direct mail pieces, ads, and banners.

  • Wilsonville SMART Transit

    Brand/Creative Strategy, Creative, Photography

    We were asked by the City of Wilsonville to completely re-brand its South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART) transportation service, in time for the unveiling of TriMet’s new westside WES line. Starting with the name itself, we leveraged our extensive experience in both branding and transportation to re-cast the agency’s offer to its constituents in a way they could intuitively incorporate it into their day-to-day lives. The result was a comprehensive redesign of every facet of SMART’s public outreach.

  • Nautilus Apparel

    Brand/Creative Strategy, Creative

    Launching Nautilus’ first line of performance apparel (with an accompanying website), this catalog celebrates the indoor athlete in motion and the revolutionary Responsive™ line of clothing that moves right along with them.