SEPTA campaign | knitting

I had the opportunity to design the Coalition Against Hunger's SEPTA annual campaign again this year - and here are the results. They have been up for some time now, but it's taken an unprecedented weather event to give me the spare time to share them with you. There's been plenty going on the past few months!

 

In addition to more freelance work for the Coalition, I've been working on a few different identity projects, and a few personal projects that I'm hoping to finish up soon. Aside from that, I've stumbled across a new obsession: knitting. It's the perfect way to relax while still being productive, and I can't get enough of it.

Here is a work-in-progress photo of the Pantone swatch drawstring bag I'm working on right now. This was the first time I've tried knitting an image/text - I was excited that it's turning out the way I planned so far.

I'll be posting new freelance projects and Franklin Institute work soon - hopefully sometime before the next natural disaster!

time flies when you're designing science

It's pretty hard to believe, but today marked my 1 year of working at The Franklin Institute! It feels like I've been there for such a short time and a long time simultaneously. Temporal anomalies aside, here are a few projects I've worked on at the museum over the past few months:

One super cool project I was thrilled to work on was creating graphics for a display case near the planetarium. It holds two artifacts from The Franklin Institute that were flown on space shuttle missions, as well as photo collages presented to the museum for each of the missions it was involved in. I created a timeline of the shuttle program as the background image, as well as laid out the artifact labels. 

Close up of timeline graphic

Star of Fels Planetarium dome flown on STS-135

The Franklin Institute printing plate that was flow on STS-40

I also had the opportunity to do the front banners and stairs graphic to promote the current traveling exhibition at The Franklin Institute, Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times. It's a beautiful exhibit, I suggest checking it out! Also here's a video that the fabricators made of installing the graphics on the steps.

this isn't the best photo, it was a bit rainy that day.

It's been a busy couple of months - stay tuned for more science-, craft-, and design-related goodness!

DIY: you rock! valentine printable

I always loved making/giving away cheesy valentines - here are the ones I made this year for coworkers at The Franklin Institute! I wanted them to be a little science-related and have some kind of candy involved, so I designed these rock candy packages:

On the inside of the tag when you open the package, I designed a little "experiment" of how to make your own rock candy:

I used treat bags I found at my local A C Moore, and bought the loose rock candy strings at a candy shop off of South Street. I printed the tags on thick card stock, cut them out and stapled them on to the folded bags. Super easy and fun!

Want to make some too? Here's a file of the tags (without my name/logo on them) for you to print! You could also delete the Valentine's Day message, it might be fun to use for a party favor or just small gift. Click the image below to download!

2012 - best year ever

Happy New Year! This holiday has been a good but hectic one, a lot of holiday-related projects to work on. I designed the New Years graphic above for a greeting card, put together handmade calendars of astronomical events to give as gifts, participated in a package exchange through the design blog oh hello friend, and had fun designing a holiday-type things for The Franklin Institute:

And there's plenty more on the list for this year!
I hope your holiday was as swell as mine was - here's to another wonderful year!

new site + new work + new shop

• It's been up for a while, but I've finally worked out most of the bugs with my
  new website design. Take a look and let me know what you think! I still have a few details I want to tweak, so give me some suggestions if you like.

• Part of my website update includes new work I've been doing at The Franklin. Most recently I completed an identity and event collateral for the Climate and Urban Systems Partnership (a community project organized by The Franklin Institute.) I designed the logo and look, brochures, table top signs - all about sustainable food and climate change. I particularly had fun with these farmer's market signs:

• Also: I now have a shop on etsy! My roommate and design comrade Alyssa and I started love, the mint - where we're selling greeting cards, prints, and custom crest designs. We'll be adding more products soon, as we get more ideas. I just listed my set of typographic note cards - don't you need a few thank you cards for the holiday season coming up? :)

Stay tuned for more super-cool science designs from work, more typographic & crafty personal projects, and more design inspiration soon!