Nodes will be a community hub where neighbors meet. Coming to St. Lawrence Square, Price Hill.
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Graphic and communication designers are ill-equipped when using their skills non-commerically to serve neighborhoods. This study—for my graduate thesis—resulted in the beginnings of a neighborhood-centered design methodology.
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Design after Capitalism is a book by DAAP professor Matthew Wizinsky. The website promotes the book while offering tools that transfer its concepts to students and practitioners.
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Empowering Community Justice Initiative (ECJI) invites participation in justice processes by surrounding youth stuck in the carceral system. Team members shaped the ECJI visual identity through a participatory design process.
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This research project reads cultural relations in Price Hill by mixing census data with an ethnography of visual design. The reading reveals that people often stay within their cultural boundaries. It concludes with several speculative event proposals that convene people with diverse identities.
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This Design Strategy project concludes with a proposed undergraduate course syllabus that connects students with people experiencing homelessness. The research included fieldwork, a multi-national survey, and role-playing.
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Many Americans live in a vehicle to mitigate their financial pressures. This is not a long-term solution. This design research project draws attention to the crisis through a speculative visual identity for a government agency that supports vehicle-dwellers.
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Short Stories from Long Lives (SSLL) encourages people to collect and share stories from older adults. SSLL began as a research project to encourage younger adults to pay attention to older adults—those often neglected—in design and innovation processes.
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Many communication designers are afraid to design for older adults with dementia for various reasons, including a lack of knowledge. This Design Strategy and Research Methods project offers a game with prompts that enable designers to approach this overlooked population.
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Access to new media platforms decentralizes information. How does that affect religious practices? Interviews with my family members across multiple generations showed that perspectives changed. However, greater access to knowledge strengthen the subjects’ faith.
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TrueScan seeks to revolutionize building projects through its innovative 3D laser scanning services. TrueScan’s shield and visual identity kit convey their ability to boost confidence in every decision.
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The “Breakthrough Moments” campaign messaging came from spontaneous conversations – between former students and teachers – prompted by custom-designed story question cards.
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There are 52 neighborhoods in Cincinnati, OH. and many do not have cohesive visual elements to express their neighborhood spirit. Cincy Flags paired local designers with the neighborhood councils to create a unique flag for each community.
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Branch is a restaurant. Night Drop is a bar in the basement below Branch. Together, they serve up unexpected combinations–through food, drinks, interior decorations, and staff.
Read MoreThe Catholic Funding Guide offers tools and services that connect passionate organizations and foundations in an environment of belonging with the voice of a caring and compassionate mentor
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The School Board School (SBS) identity and website helps SBS equip citizens to support their public schools as elected officials or active volunteers.
Read MoreVisual identity, print and web collateral for an art supply thrift store (adaptive reuse) and arts programming organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Kunst Magazine is a publication about old buildings and the people who care for them. The layout and design frame the layers of history represented within each building.
Read MoreThis book tells the story of Chatype, an open-source, crowd-funded, and custom-made typeface for the citizens of Chattanooga.
Read MoreSystems We Love is a conference for people who love the inner-workings of highly technological systems.
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