Design Explorer Logo Animation

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This is just a quick animation of my new DE logo, as of October 2025. A little fun with graphics, animation and sound that convey my exciting journey as a Design Explorer.

 

Women’s History Bus

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RTD has a tradition of celebrating important events and holidays by commissioning special designs for RTD busses that reflect the importance to our community. In this case, I was asked to create a artful design that celebrates Women’s “Her”story by featuring a few of the many women that “make lives better through connections” at RTD.

RTD Mission Campaign

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RTD created a new mission statement and was in need of a marketing campaign to communicate this mission to it’s customer community. The mission: We make lives better through connections. The goal was to address the depth and breadth of this community including these six primary customer categories:

Commuters
Car Travelers
Pass Holders/Business
Youth
LiVE Program
Green/Environmental

I conceived and created the graphics for the full campaign to represent each of […]

Parade Bus

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I designed this COMMUNITY bus wrap for the first RTD dedicated parade bus. This bus has been in multiple Denver parades and has been taken to several community outreach events. The goal of the design is to depict the wide variety of customers that they serve, and the deep community that they span. And to embody their mission statement: […]

WDWWT Logo

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Crafting this logo for the podcast entitled ‘We Drink and We Watch Things’ was a fun project! These two cinephile podcasters really know their movies and how to have a lively discussion. I highly recommend checking out their video and/or audio podcast: @wedrinkandwewatchthings and https://www.youtube.com/@wedrinkandwewatchthings.

I also created a animated post to promote their podcast on social media. […]

Applewood Business Association

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It was a pleasure completing a full rebrand for the APPLEWOOD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION. This association has been in existence for several decades and is a staple in the Applewood, Colorado community. Although it is a successful organization, they are looking to grow and expand into larger markets, and to appeal to the younger generation. They […]

Abundant Business Connections

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Working with the dynamic marketing professional, Meg Smit, to create a full brand identity system for her business, was an exciting challenge! Meg has several “irons in the fire,” as they say, that she wanted to bring together under one unified brand. Her roles range from hyperlocal community magazine publisher to business marketing consultant. It […]

Zvia Weight Loss & Medspa

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I had the privilege of developing a full brand identity system for ZVIA WEIGHT LOSS & MEDSPA, located in Lakewood, CO. I crafted the brand for this new business, from scratch. From the in-depth research of the industry, competition, business name and target market, to the style/tone and messaging, I was able to assist them […]

Physical Product Showcase Branding

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I developed the brand identity and created all the print, digital and social media marketing collateral for the Physical Product Showcase (September 2019).
The PHYSICAL PRODUCT SHOWCASE is one of the headline events at DENVER STARTUP WEEK. This is an event where you can see, taste, touch and feel over 45 new products on the Colorado market. And […]

Annual Report/Year in Review – Montview

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As the director of Design, Print Production and Communications at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church, I interacted with and compiled information from several departments and individuals to create this Annual Report. It is a ‘Year in Review’ for 2018, highlighting many of the wonderful activities of this vibrant church. This booklet was produced using our in-house print shop, […]

Event Posters – Montview

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Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church is a very dynamic church, and there is always something going on that requires promotion over multiple channels. One of the ways that we reach our audience is through event posters. I have included some of my favorite event posters, amongst the hundreds that I have designed for Montview.

Berry Packages

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The intention of this project was to select an existing package design that could benefit from a redesign. Research of the existing package design and its chief purpose was conducted to create a new design, to improve its use by the primary target audience. I chose to redesign an existing strawberry package.

My redesign of the […]

Stewardship Campaign Branding – Montview

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Montivew Boulevard Presbyterian Church asked me to create an identity and collateral for their annual stewardship campaign for 2017-2018. The theme title this year was ‘A Prophetic Faith.’ They also provided some theme and content ideas. Using these ideas, I crafted a typographic logo that echos the title and the definition of that theme, “living […]

Red Rocks Magazine Ad

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This magazine ad for Red Rocks park & amphitheatre speaks to the beauty, history and fun to be experienced at this amazing location. It’s a place that I love and enjoy promoting! And I was able to incorporate some cool photography, typography, copy and Photoshop effects.

Check out the park! http://redrocksonline.com/

Charity Golf Tournament Event Branding/Collateral

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Catamount Constructors, Inc. is a Denver-based commercial construction company that hosts an annual  charity Golf Tournament. This year, they decided to kick it up a notch by branding the event with a modern and consistent look and feel. The people at Catamount are consummate professionals with very generous hearts. Although they have dedicated themselves to running […]

Employee Handbook – Altvia

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A Denver-based Private Equity B2B company, Altvia SolutionsTM, recently changed their company name and needed assistance with a full re-branding campaign. I was able to apply their brand guidelines to the update and recreation of print and digital marketing collateral. They required both internal and customer-facing materials.

In this case, Altvia required a branded, clean design […]

Big Bend National Park

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Big Bend National Park has a wide variety of terrain, wildlife, plant life, geology and available activities. As a native Texan, and a frequent visitor to the park, it is near and dear to my heart. The objective of this project was to create a new logo that uses the NPS template that I developed, […]

Outdoor Buddies

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Outdoor Buddies is a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that assists people with disabilities in enjoying outdoor activities.

I was the Project Manager for a rebranding project for the Outdoor Buddies organization. I lead a design team consisting of 4 designers in addition to myself. We undertook the challenge to modernize and improve the professionalism of the Outdoor […]

Brazilian Restaurant Promotion

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I wanted to create a design campaign to promote an event to educate people about the origins of Brazilian Jazz and the culture of Brazil. The idea of combining this with the promotion of a Brazilian restaurant seemed to be ideal, and it combines two of my favorite things!

Given the colorful nature of the Brazilian […]

REI Rebranding Design Brief

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This document is the product of an extensive market and competitor study with the goal of rebranding the REI company. Results of the qualitative and quantitative research, as well as brand campaign proposals are presented in this book. The campaign proposals include: a new logo, advertisement and website layout.

View the entire project brief: REI Re-branding […]

Tubb’s Women’s Snowshoes

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I love snowshoeing! While I have been out snowshoeing  I have noticed that there are more men than women enjoying this activity. I think that this sport could attract more women if the snowshoe manufacturers would be more aggressive with their promotional campaigns, and create more events that would give women the opportunity to easily […]