Graphic Design

2019 Photo Restoration

2019 Photo Restoration
Freelance Design | Digital Image Restoration | Norfolk, Virginia

A client of mine found an old photo of a friend’s family and wanted to gift it to that friend, but the photo was not in the best condition. My client asked me to digitally “clean it up” a bit, yet still leave that vintage feel to it, so I got to work removing the creases and cracks and some of the dirt on the photo.

Before & After

Before

Creases from crinkling, cracks, dirt marks, and aged wear & tear.

After

Image Retouching + Digital Restoration

2019 Roaring 20s Holiday Card

2019 Roaring 20s Holiday Card
Freelance Design | Family Holiday Card | Norfolk, VA

The end of 2019 marked the beginning of this century’s “Roaring 20s” and in true art deco fashion, I was tasked with creating a personalized holiday card for my client that had a “Roaring 20s” feel to it that welcomed everyone into the new decade. The family wanted to highlight many of the modern conventions held in the 1920s that still resonate with each member in the 2020s. I featured each family member in a grainy, sepia-toned, “talkie” film-style alongside the trait they identified with most. This card was also a custom cut and fold, where there are two folds – one on each outside edge of the card – with the flaps folding in on itself to create a cover that opens from the center. This layout provided me with a welcome change from designing the usual, standard, half-fold card, and I had to get the design and cuts just right to make them line up perfectly on the cover.

2019 Roaring 20s Holiday Card

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Card Front - Folded

Card Back - Folded

Card Inside - Open

Card Outside - Open

2019 Capital Legacy Counseling, LLC

Capital Legacy Counseling, LLC is a trust and estate planning law firm in Maryland. I created an entire identity and brand for the firm, including the logo, business cards, website, brochures, intake forms, and letterhead. The design is based around the notion of “sailing into a secure future with confidence” since the business idea is that this firm will be the one that takes care of clients’s needs from beginning to end and beyond, hence the abstract image of the sailboat.

2019 Capital Legacy Counseling Designs

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Horizontal Logo Design

Squared Logo Design

Sailboat Insignia Only Logo Design

Wordpress Website Design

Informational Brochure Design

Inventory Intake Form Design - Cover

Inventory Intake Form Design - Inside Cover

Letterhead Design - Primary Page

Letterhead Design - Secondary Page

Business Card Design - Front

Business Card Design - Back

2019 The Grilladelphian

2019 The Grilladelphian Logo Design and Sauce Labels
Freelance Design | Homemade Hot Sauces | Chesapeake, VA

A client who dabbled in concocting homemade hot sauces was looking for a brand logo and labels for his different flavors of hot sauces. Since the client was originally from Philadelphia, there was a lot of hometown pride, so we wanted to incorporate a little of the feel of Philly in the logo. The idea was based around the name “The Grilladelphian,” because his hot sauces could be used for dabbing, dipping, and grilling, so I created imagery around a spatula grilling utensil and a famous Philly landmark – the Liberty Bell – with the tagline “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Flavor.” The imagery of the hot sauce labels were based on the main ingredients of the sauces, creating vector drawings for each.

2019 The Grilladelphian Logo & Hot Sauce Labels

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Logo Design - Black

Logo Design - White

The Grilladelphian Hot Sauce Label Design

Ghost Pepper Pineapple

The Grilladelphian Hot Sauce Label Design

Jalapeno Garlic

The Grilladelphian Hot Sauce Label Design

Chipotle Bacon

The Grilladelphian Hot Sauce Label Design

Habanero Orange

The Grilladelphian Hot Sauce Label Design

Alternate Design for Habanero Orange

2019 Shorts & Sweatbands

2019 Shorts & Sweatbands Logo Design Proposal
Freelance Design | Shorts & Sweatbands Fitness + Lifestyle Blog | Norfolk, VA

Although the client went with another designer, I had fun creating this logo proposal for a friend. Her husband maintains a fitness and lifestyle blog and social media following called Shorts & Sweatbands with the tagline, “Do work. Be rad.” The style of Shorts & Sweatbands is a throwback to the 1980’s when fitness attire included short shorts, tube socks, classic sneakers, sweatbands, leg warmers, leotards and tights.

2019 Shorts & Sweatbands Logo Proposal

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2019 I AM IMPACT Summit

2019 I AM IMPACT Summit
Freelance Design | Indian American Impact Fund | Washington, D.C.

When the movers and shakers of Washington, DC were gearing up in the fall of 2019 to support their respective parties and elected officials, and rally the voters, the Indian American IMPACT Fund was getting its annual IMPACT Summit underway. The I AM IMPACT Summit is sponsored by the IMPACT Project, which is a nonpartisan arm of the Indian American IMPACT Fund, with the goal to encourage “Indian Americans to seek a life in public service and help build a more diverse and inclusive democracy that improves the lives of all Americans.” The I AM IMPACT – I(ndian) A(mericans)M(aking) IMPACT – Summit was a project that sought to bring together leaders, voters, candidates, philanthropists, community leaders, and political strategists from across the country to share ideas, engage in dialogue, support candidate training, discuss current events, present historic viewpoints, and network. For this project, I created the I AM IMPACT logo using the original IMPACT logo, incorporating it onto imagery of the capital building to create the 2019 Summit identity, and designed the registration page for the event using their event web host, Strikingly.

2019 I AM IMPACT Summit

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I AM IMPACT Registration Site

I AM IMPACT Event Logo

I AM IMPACT Imagery

2019 OST: The Temple pOST Bulletin

2019 Ohef Sholom Temple
The Temple pOST Bulletin
Graphic & Web Designer | Ohef Sholom Temple | Norfolk, Virginia

By the end of 2018, Ohef Sholom Temple’s monthly newsletter, The Temple pOST Bulletin, was in need of a fresh update. The Bulletin’s previous incarnation was that of a dull monochromatic blue with black print, and I felt that a full color spectrum would liven the design and make the publication easier to navigate visually. The full color redesign really elevated the publication’s quality, professionalism, readability, and energy, modernizing the identity of the Temple itself. With a new contemporary look and feel, the beginning of 2019 witnessed Ohef Sholom Temple’s Temple pOST Bulletin publication transition from an old second-rate “church-style” newsletter to a beautiful 16-20 page mini-magazine, with each cover carefully chosen and designed to reflect the highlight of each month’s upcoming events and/or holidays.

2019 Temple pOST Bulletin

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January/February 2019

Volume 59, Issue 5

March 2019

Volume 59, Issue 6

April 2019

Volume 59, Issue 7

May 2019

Volume 59, Issue 8

June/July 2019

Volume 59, Issue 9

August 2019

Volume 59, Issue 10

September 2019

Volume 59, Issue 11

October 2019

Volume 60, Issue 1

November 2019

Volume 60, Issue 2

December 2019

Volume 60, Issue 3

2019 OST: Website Redesign & Icon Design

2019 Ohef Sholom Temple
Website Redesign & Icon Design
Graphic & Web Designer | Ohef Sholom Temple | Norfolk, Virginia

By 2019, the Ohef Sholom Temple website was in desperate need of an upgrade, so along with our web hosting team, I began the huge undertaking of completely redesigning and streamlining the Temple’s entire website, moving it from a Joomla-based build to a WordPress site. Countless hours of research, organization, reorganization, scrubbing old information, layout design, and content gathering & editing went into this massive redesign. To this day, it’s still a constantly evolving project needing weekly updates, and is especially so, having to adapt its design on the fly in the face of a pandemic.

The bulletin icons were created to compliment the sections of the Temple’s monthly bulletin publication, The Temple pOST Bulletin, which was also redesigned from a blue monochromatic color scheme to full color, so it could be delivered as a full-color paperless publication via email or accessible on our website and in full color by print to those who opted out of the paperless version. These icons compliment the color schemes that subtly coincide with corresponding sections of our website and bulletin.

Website & Bulletin Icon Designs

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Ohef Sholom Temple Home Page

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Worship

Clergy

Presidential Address

Jewish Life

Education

LIFE & LEGACY

Inside OST: A Closer Look

Donations

Yahrzeits

We of Ohef Sholom

Love Thy Neighbor

Calendar

Tikkun Olam/Repairing the World

Israel

Social Justice

Teshuvah Stories

Purimshpiel

Passover

High Holidays

Sukkot

Chanukah

2019 OST: Website Redesign & Icon Design

2019 OST: 175th Anniversary Gala

2019 Ohef Sholom Temple
175th Anniversary Gala
Graphic & Web Designer | Ohef Sholom Temple | Norfolk, Virginia

In honor of 175 years of Ohef Sholom Temple, leadership, clergy and committee chairs fashioned a formal gala event to celebrate such a huge milestone in the congregation’s history. It was a golden event complete with live music, dinner, dancing, a raffle for exquisite prizes, a fancy cake, an ice sculpture, private label wine, and many more small touches that make such an event truly special. Using the pre-established logo for “We of Ohef Sholom,” I turned the logo golden, giving it a reflective metallic golden gradient and set it between the most recognizable symbols of the Temple: it’s unmistakeable Ionic pillars that line the entrance to the Sanctuary. With the pillars wrapped in golden ribbon and surrounded with gold, silver and bronze bits of “confetti” falling all around, the identity for Ohef Sholom Temple’s 175th Anniversary Gala was born.

Event Branding, Invitations, Postcards, Raffle Tickets, Posters, Program Booklets, Wine Labels, Table Toppers, and Event Signage

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Gala Invitation Design - Front

Gala Invitation Design - Back

Raffle Ticket Postcard Design - Front

Raffle Ticket Postcard Design - Back

Raffle Ticket Design - Front

Raffle Ticket Design - Back

Poster Design

Event Program Booklet Design

Logo Redesign/Button Design

Wine Label/Ice Sculpture Design

Event Images

Featuring Specialty Designs

Ice Sculpture

Table Toppers

Program Booklets

Wine Bottle Label

Gala Table Arrangement Chart

Gala Seating Chart

Ready to Celebrate!

All tables had a famous Jewish person to identify seating assignments, along with programs, table toppers and decor to match the black & gold theme of the 175th Anniversary Gala.

2019 OST: 175th Anniversary Capital Campaign Fundraiser

2019 Ohef Sholom Temple
175th Anniversary Capital Campaign Fundraiser
Graphic & Web Designer | Ohef Sholom Temple | Norfolk, Virginia

Celebrating a congregation that is 175 years old also means celebrating a future and ensuring that there will still be an Ohef Sholom Temple for future generations. The Temple President organized a Capital Fundraising Campaign in honor of the 175th Anniversary of Ohef Sholom Temple, with a goal to raise $1.75 million for future capital needs, building improvements, programming and staffing. The campaign had it’s own identity, complete with imagery, a webpage, stationery, and ads.

Flyers, Online Media, Event Signage and Form Design

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Campaign Identity Design