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Working in pen, pencil, paper, chalk, and a multitude of digital programs, I respect both the limitations and advantages of each unique medium.

My purpose is to communicate with viewers in a way that is clear and visually appealing. Having worked in many different fields including education and retail management, I understand that the function of each design must always be the primary focus. I create artwork that is not only beautiful, but intentional.

Big Book SaleEvent Campaign

I created this piece for the Charleston Friends of the Library to promote their “That Big Book Sale” which occurs every October. Stories capture and carry us to places and people we could never experience without them. Utilizing a color scheme inspired by the bright colors of changing leaves in fall, I developed a digital illustration that evokes the same sense of wonder and beauty that stories do. In designing the illustration I was conscientious about my use of space, ensuring I would have enough to emphasize the text. This piece won the competition for the Charleston Friends of the Library and was ultimately used for all of the promotions and marketing for the 2015 “That Big Book Sale” event. Working with the client to better understand the needs and limitations of the event and organization, I created posters, social media campaigns, billboards, and newspaper/magazine ads.

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Shine Fest Logo & Poster Design

Shine Fest is a music and moonshine festival currently in development by Bill Murray and a team of other Charlestonians. I had the opportunity to design a logo for the festival based on the information the team provided. In keeping with the information I was given as well as my knowledge of the clientele of music festivals and moonshine drinkers, I developed coordinating logos for Shine Fest. I began the piece by creating a distinct “S” mimicking the shape of a treble clef. I then hand-drew a rough moonshine jug outline and type. After digitally rendering the design, I had created a logo unique to the festival. This piece won second place in the contest and has been shortlisted as a promotional poster for the festival.

Cafe Doodle Doo Corporate Identity

Cafe Doodle Doo is a food truck and bicycle delivery service I conceived several years ago during the early hours of the morning. After an all-night study session, I thought “I want coffee and I want donuts. Why is there not a coffee and donut delivery company?” I had the opportunity to develop an entire brand identity for the company I had wished existed that morning.

In creating this brand, I not only had to give consideration to standard design elements, but also how those elements would work with the physical aspects of each item, from the donut boxes to the food truck itself.

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Amount/Serving % Daily Value*Amount/Serving % Daily Value*

Total Fat 11g Saturated Fat 5g Trans Fat 0gCholesterol 0mgSodium 75mg

Total Carbohydrate 21g Dietary Fiber 3g Sugars 10gProtein 2g

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NutritionFacts Serving Size 1 Donut (49g)Servings Per Box 3Calories 190Calories from Fat 100

Vitamin A 0% • Vitamin C 2% • Calcium 6% • Iron 4%Calories Per GramFat 9 • Carbohydrate 4 • Protein 4

*Percent Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:

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65g20g300mg2,400mg300g25g

80g25g300mg2,400mg375g30g

Calories 2,000 2,500

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Pick Me Up Your choice of Cafe Doodle Doo custom blends. Black.

normal $1.95, sleepy $2.15, all-nighter $3.75

Smokin' Hot The MunchiesSnooze ButtonOur custom-blend coffee, swirled with caramel drizzle and heavy cream. Topped with a pinch of Himalayan sea-salt. Ask for a shot of butterscotch for an extra bit of cozy.

Roll OutBreakfast burrito jam-packed with everything you need to fuel your day. Scrambled eggs, aged cheddar, with your choice of veggies and meat.

Deep vanilla-infused blend with hints of brown sugar and sweet butter. Served with a buttercream stirring stick.

Butter My BiscuitCafe Doodle Doo buttery biscuits made from scratch daily. Your choice of our special butters or preserves.

Three slices of crispy maple bacon. Enough said.

Avacado Portabella mushroomCaramelized onion

Sweet bell pepperBlack oliveJalapeno

Whipped honey butterApple butterSweet maple butter

Bacon jamPeach preservesRaspberry jam

The 11th AlarmCafe Doodle Doo custom-blend with an extra shot of espresso & a pinch of ceyenne.


Sweet Tooth

I Preserve You, It Gets Butter Eat Your Veggies

Basic Batch

Basic batch with creamy chocolate frosting.

single $1.65, sextuplet $6.25, dozen $13.95


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Thick buttery croissant with your choice of our special butters or preserves. $1.25

Bagel for itBaked fresh daily. Your choice of plain, sun-dried tomato, jalapeno cheddar, everything, cranberry, or cinnamon swirl. Topped with cream cheese.

$3.35, with veggie $4.15

Stick it to MeBreakfast on a stick! Maple-infused breakfast sausage dipped in pancake batter and deep-fried to perfection. Served with buttery maple syrup. $4.65

$1.65, with peppered gravy $2.05

$2.75, double order $5.00

Concieved by students during an all-night study session,

we bring you the fuel you need to get through the day.

Open 7 days a week 6:00am-2:00pm

Delivery or take-out, get your fuel fast!

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Smokin' HotSnooze ButtonOur custom-blend coffee, swirled with caramel drizzle and heavy cream. Topped with a pinch of Himalayan sea-salt. Ask for a shot of butterscotch for an extra bit of cozy.

Wake n’ CakeDeep vanilla-infused blend with hints of brown sugar and sweet butter. Served with a buttercream stirring stick.

Whipped honey butterApple butterSweet maple butter

Bacon jamPeach preservesRaspberry jam

The 11th AlarmCafe Doodle Doo custom-blend with an extra shot of espresso & a pinch of cayenne.


Sweet Tooth

I Preserve You, It Gets Butter

Basic BatchCafe Doodle Doo’s glazed deep-fried donut goodness.

Goin’ CocoaBasic batch with creamy chocolate frosting.



The MunchiesRoll OutBreakfast burrito jam-packed with everything you need to fuel your day. Scrambled eggs, aged cheddar, with your choice of veggies and meat.

Butter My BiscuitCafe Doodle Doo buttery biscuits made from scratch daily. Your choice of our special butters or preserves.

Bacon Me CrazyThree slices of crispy maple bacon. Enough said.

Avacado Portabella mushroomCaramelized onion

Sweet bell pepperBlack oliveJalapeno

Eat Your Veggies

$6.65

Croissant’cha Love Me?Thick buttery croissant with your choice of our special butters or preserves. $1.25

Bagel for itBaked fresh daily. Your choice of plain, sun-dried tomato, jalapeno cheddar, everything, cranberry, or cinnamon swirl. Topped with cream cheese.

$3.35, with veggie $4.15

Stick it to MeBreakfast on a stick! Maple-infused breakfast sausage dipped in pancake batter and deep-fried to perfection. Served with buttery maple syrup. $4.65

$1.65, with peppered gravy $2.05

$2.75, double order $5.00

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The circus arrives without warning.

No announcements precede it...It is simply there,

where one day it was notI am the author of The Night Circus, & someday I will write another book so I have things to write in biographies.

I grew up in Mass. & studied theatre & studio art at Smith College.

I live with my husband in Manhattan where I am working on a new novel & am improving my cocktail mixing skills.

I paint. I’m obsessed with artisan perfume oils & I drink a lot of tea.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

Behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians who have been trained for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.

The game must play out, and the fates of all, from the circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the acrobats overhead.

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“The Night Circus made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious

kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife

Copywrited Material

The Night Circus Book Cover

Inspired by the mystical themes of Erin Morgenstern’s book The Night Circus, I melded vintage photographs from the early 1900s with a dark background to create a book cover that honors the mood of the story. In keeping with the mythical Le Cirque des Rêves, the artwork is entirely void of color save for two scarlet ribbons metaphorically binding Celia Bowen (one of the book’s main characters and the focus of this artwork) to the circus.

MiserereEvent Campaign & Illustration

Developed for the Taylor Festival Choir, this campaign features stained glass illustrations which evoke the religious atmosphere of the music.

Madrigal Program Event Program & Illustrations

This program was designed for the College of Charleston Choral Group to incorporate specific elements chosen by the client including the “Ye Olde English” feel and illustrations of each of the members of the choir. I worked with the client to integrate clear and positive design elements with a consistent layout and feel from previous years.

I created the illustrations for each singer’s face individually in order to accurately depict their facial features and personalities. From there, I compiled the “choir” in a formation that would best fit the layout. Adding bodies and masking aspects (such as hair, etc) allowed me to create a seamless image of the singing choir.

Adobe Jenson ProType Specimen Book

Taking inspiration from the typeface itself, I designed, printed, and bound this book to showcase the unique aspects of Adobe Jenson Pro. I was inspired by the shape of this font which is simultaneously angular and soft - much like snowflakes. I created a snowfal of letters and glyphs from Slimbach’s typeface to evoke the feeling of being bundled up in a cozy cabin on a snow-covered mountain.

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Robert Slimbach

Adobe Jenson Pro was created by Robert Slimbach for the Adobe Originals project in 1996. The Adobe Originals program began in 1989, a time when professionals were in dire need of high-quality digital fonts. Adobe Jenson was originally released as a multiple master Postscript font, however it is currently available under the name Adobe Jenson Pro as an OpenType font.

As Slimbach designed the digitized Adobe Jenson Pro he was inspired by the work of both Nicholas Jenson and Ludovico delgi Arrighi: venetian typographers and printers. Nicholas Jenson’s roman type was the primary source for Slimbach; his original typeface - created in 1470 - was highly readable while maintaining a relaxed sense of beauty. For italics, Jenson looked to the work of Ludovico delgi Arrighi - yet another venetian typographer and printer known for beautifully readable work.

The font family contains 32 unique typefaces as well as hundreds of glyphs within each font.

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Sam Harris Layout & Illustration

I created this layout for a Newsweek article about Sam Harris. The original article was titled “Sam Harris Believes in God” and depicts a harrowing photograph of an underlit Sam Harris glowering down from the top of the page. Sam Harris’s lectures and interviews have had a deeply positive impact on my own life, and the idea of morality and happiness without religion is so often misunderstood (either through willful misrepresentation or lack of knowledge). I chose to re-title the article based off of an actual Sam Harris quote from this interview, and selected an orange and blue color scheme to convey a sense of peace and happiness. The smiling Darwin’s fish I created for this piece frame the entire article.

Sam Harris—a hero to the Americans who check the atheist box on opinion polls—concedes he believes in something certain people would call “God.” In a related thought, he raises the topic of his next project: a spirituality guide tentatively titled The Illusion of the Self. Based on Harris’s own “spiritual journey,” it will “[celebrate] the spiritual aspect of human existence [and explain] how we can live moral and spiritual lives without religion,” according to a statement from his publisher. It’s surprising. One hardly expects Harris, a hyperrational polemicist, to veer into the realm of spiritual self-help.

Spirituality is not a new interest of Harris’s. A careful reader will have noticed that though he’s often been lumped together with the rabble-rousers Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, and though he continues to insist that religious faith is possibly the most destructive force in the world, he shuns the label “atheist.” Harris places reason at the apex of human abilities and achievement, but he concedes that there’s much that humans may never empirically know—like

what happens after death. “Mystery,” he wrote in the concluding chapter of The End of Faith, “is ineradicable from our circumstance, because however much we know, it seems like there will always be brute facts that we cannot account for but which we must rely on to explain everything else.” For his praise of the contemplative experience in The End of Faith, Harris has received criticism from atheists.

Harris is in town promoting The Moral Landscape, his new book. Even here, he briefly explores the connections between spiritual experience — especially an experience of selflessness — and human happiness. “I see nothing irrational about seeking the states of mind that lie at the core of many religions. Compassion, awe, devotion and feelings of oneness are surely among the most valuable experiences a person can have,” he writes. Over lunch, he says with a smile how much he looks forward to working on the next project, which will allow him to pull back, after six long years, and focus on things that

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“the human mind can be taught— trained, rationally—to be more loving, more generous, less egocentric than it is in its natural state.”

support human flourishing. “Ecstasy, rapture, bliss, concentration, a sense of the sacred—I’m comfortable with all of that,” says Harris later. “I think all of that is indispensable and I think it’s frankly lost on much of the atheist community.”

The answer to the question “Do you believe in God?” comes down to this: It depends on what you mean by God. The God Harris doesn’t believe in is, as he puts it, a “supernatural power” and “a personal deity who hears prayers and takes an interest…people.” This God and its subscribers he finds unreasonable. But he understands that many people—especially in progressive corners of organized religion and among the “spiritual but not religious—often mean something else. They equate God with “love” or “justice” or “singing in church” or “that feeling I get on a walk in the woods,” or even “the awesome aspects of existence I’ll never understand.”

When polled about God, “people substitute in their own ideas,” says John Green, senior research adviser at Pew. “People have a vague, fuzzy notion of transcendence, and they substitute God for it…When you try to make the definition more specific, fewer people answer in the affirmative.” Or put another way, “If you let the concept of God float a little bit, almost everybody is a theist,” says Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One. What Sam Harris believes in—rationality, morality, transcendence, humility, awe, community, selflessness, and love—meets a fairly common definition of God.

Harris says he became interested in spiritual and philosophical questions while an undergraduate at Stanford University. At 18, he experimented with the drug ecstasy and was struck by the possibility that the human mind—his own mind—might be able to achieve a state of loving unselfishness without the help of drugs. So he left college and traveled to India and Nepal, where he studied with Hindu and Buddhist teachers who could help him attain a kind of peace and selflessness through meditation. Over the next 10 years, he read religion and philosophy on his own and spent weeks and months—adding up to two years—in silent retreat. He finally returned to Stanford to complete a philosophy degree. Harris pursued a doctorate in neuroscience because he hoped science would give him the tools to rationally explore human experience.

Harris’s true obsession, is not God but consciousness, the idea that the human mind can be taught—trained, rationally—to be more loving, more generous, less egocentric than it is in its natural state. And though he knows that he can sound like a person who believes in God, he thinks that God is the wrong word to describe his beliefs. “There’s a real problem with the word,” he says, “because it shields the genuinely divisive doctrines and believers from criticism. If the God of the 25 percent is incredibly valuable, which it is; and it’s actually worth realizing, which it is; and it’s something we can talk about rationally, which it is; then calling it ‘God’ prevents you from criticizing all the divisive nonsense that comes with religion.” Believing in transcendence is not the same thing as believing that you’ll get virgins in paradise if you blow yourself up and Sam Harris wants to be clear about that.

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Beauty RedefinedCampaign & Photography

For this piece, I developed a campaign for Beauty Redefined, an organization promoting healthy beauty standards for young girls and women. Working from the typical beauty ad structure, I portrayed the demands that the beauty industry and society places on females by writing on the body of a model. Visualising these demands scrawled across the body of a young woman brings to light just how often women feel defined and limited by them. I developed contrasting typography in order to remind women their value is deeper than their outward appearance.

Tabasco & Eggs Flash Animation

When I was first presented with the opportunity to experiment with animation - a skill I had never tested before - I was eager to meet the challenge. Because of my familiarity with vector programs, I chose to create my base characters in Adobe Illustrator before importing them into Adobe Flash. While I was entirely unfamiliar with the animation program when I began, I found it relatively easy to pick up because of my understanding of other Adobe programs and my knowledge of basic animation concepts.

Many advertisements exclude or alienate large portions of markets by needlessly targeting gender and sexuality. With that in mind, I created a gender-neutral love story between an egg and the hot sauce.

Ambulance ReviewEvent Poster & Illustration

I designed this poster for The Ambulance Review, an indie punk rock band from northern Virginia. I chose to illustrate a sinister yet alluring nurse to reference the medical theme of the band’s name and distinct “Rx” logo. Black, white, and red suit the color scheme of the band as well as the tastes of their bold and edgy target audience.

Chalk IllustrationHand-Rendered Type

Managing a small botique in Downtown Charleston provided me with an unexpected opportunity to experiment with typography and drawing in chalk. The frequently changing advertisements and greetings mean I have to work quickly. This allows me to tap into the more freethinking and creative side of myself and prevents me from overthinking designs. For this reason, I now create my initial sketches for new pieces on chalk as well.

Doctor Who Tattoo Design

I created this tattoo design for a client who gave me no other details than “I want a Doctor Who tattoo above my heart.” I implemented easily recognizable aspects of Doctor Who iconography into the drawing of the heart by replicating two of the client’s favorite Doctors’ sonic screwdrivers. A banner threading around the drawing of the heart reads “I may only have one heart, but it’s bigger on the inside.” The quotation carries a double reference— the Doctor has two hearts while my client only has one. The TV show frequently refers to the fact that the T.A.R.D.I.S. (the Doctor’s time machine) is larger on the inside than it appears from the outside. My client may have an average-sized heart medically speaking, but when it comes to kindness and generosity, it is exceptionally large.

Mermaid Watercolor & India Ink

I chose to illustrate a mermaid in a style I created when I was very young. In middle school, I had an entire series of “realistic” cartoons that showed all of the characters with very large heads and small upper bodies, which allows me to emphasize facial expression. I chose to return to that style for this piece because I wanted to reference my childhood doodles to create the sense of whimsy mermaids themselves evoke.

Survivor Conceptual Design

The inspiration for this piece began with drawing the words “family” and “fear” from a bowl of crumpled papers. I created webs of ideas until a theme began to develop - one of the contrasts between a “survivor” and “victim.” A victim is broken, silent, and trapped. A survivor is whole, has a voice, and is free.

The tree is the survivor - glowing embers of truths, growing branches, and upward swirling lines of freedom. The broken doll represents the victim - bound and silenced by her experiences. These separate but corresponding pieces borrow elements from one another because they come from the same place. A victim and survivor each experience a tragic event - it is only how they react that determines whether they will become a victim or a survivor.

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