#NOBEL4ISS Homepage Redesign: Space Games Federation

The Space Games Federation® (SGF) & Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance (EIPMA) partnered with member organizations, like the Vaughan International Film Festival, AVID, Claremont High School, Harman, SMPTE and volunteers, for the 2021 #NOBEL4ISS Equal Space Challenge. The SGF team needed a redesign of the campaign homepage to mark the 2021 edition of the competition.

In the Equal Space Challenge, participants create a public service announcement for a grassroots campaign to foster public support for awarding The Nobel Peace Prize to the International Space Station (ISS).

Working with the SGF team and integrating their copy and required elements, I created a scroll-friendly homepage using their WordPress site and template.

Read on to experience the design or visit the #NOBEL4ISS Equal Space Challenge via the button below.

UnStruktured, Ep. 6: Lenise Bent, Audio Engineering Blondie's Autoamerican

Michelle Rose, visionary apparel designer and music tastemaker behind STRUKTUR and the UnStruktured Podcast, invited the legendary Lenise Bent to share her memories of recording Blondie’s Autoamerican.

Accolades aside, both women happen to be two dear friends from the pro audio world. So when Michelle shared that she’d interviewed Lenise and needed an extra pair of hands to edit the footage, I felt lucky to have a front row seat to the conversation.

The first half of the interview was a straightforward conversation-style edit, full of great nuggets of wisdom from Lenise’s memories of getting her start as an engineer. The second half was where the uniqueness began; together, Michelle and Lenise went song by song, listening to each track and breaking down the process. I cut the bits of each track that meant the most for their discussion to create a cohesive experience for the listener to experience the play-by-play of Lenise’s memories of recording the classic album Autoamerican.

You can find more of Michelle’s work with UnStruktured on her Substack.

PRO SESSIONS from the San Francisco & PNW Chapters of the Recording Academy

While on staff with the Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter, our team and I collaborated with the Pacific Northwest Chapter team to produce this 3-part webinar series, PRO SESSIONS, educating our creator membership with best practices on managing their independent businesses.

Through months of prep, we collaborated with multiple teams internally to create the series assets, organize necessary legal agreements and clearances, support the hosts and moderators as they crafted their presentations, and coordinated with the in-house video team to record and produce the finished products to live on the Recording Academy Membership & Industry Relations Youtube channel. The finished product was a series of lectures and interactive Q&A’s that offer a robust and comprehensive guide to managing one’s own independant creative business.

Enjoy!

One Minute Academy's Chasing the Light Podcast: Ukraine

I had the immense privilege of documenting a storytelling workshop serving the American Embassy in Kyiv by the One Minute Academy.

One Minute Academy's mission is to spread video literacy around the world. Working with both teachers and institutions to provide students and employees with new opportunities for self-expression, they have created online video education strategies for some of the world’s largest institutions, such as Adobe and National Geographic. To date, they have collaborated with 75 US embassies on projects ranging from drug violence prevention and economic empowerment, to countering violent extremism and training for diplomats (you can learn more at oneminuteacademy.com).

One Minute Academy’s founder, Christoph Geiseler, and I collaborated to create this project documenting the Ukraine workshop. Classes took place over Zoom over the course of a week, and while Christoph and his intrepid team of teachers did their thing, I recorded each day, pulling students ‘aside’ into breakout rooms to interview them on their experience within the class, during the war, and about the stories they were hoping to tell.

Meeting these students and watching their creativity unfold was a transformative experience; then, combing through a week’s worth of footage to create a narrative podcast was another! Christoph and I went back and forth on the perfect voice for the podcast before settling on me as the observer. From there, I dove into sound designing and soundtracking, and what emerged is I hope a truly immersive look into this experience.

Formal copy here (also written by me):

8 months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a storytelling workshop takes place in partnership with America House in Kyiv. Joined by guests Professor Nick Cull, from the USC Center of Public Diplomacy, and Ed Bice, CEO of Meedan, follow along and meet the students as they learn the skills they need to capture their experiences in a one minute documentary-style format. Whether documenting Russian war crimes in Kharkiv, creating artist communities among refugees in Zurich, or working to preserve their culture under threat at home in Kyiv, everyone has a story to tell.

Mary McLaughlin Music: Bandcamp Release of A Gaelic Christmas

Irish singer-songwriter Mary McLaughlin’s first Bandcamp re-release from her catalogue was her album A Gaelic Christmas; I had the privilege of being part of the campaign.

Taking inspiration from the gorgeous album art created originally by Rachel Arbuckle, I built out a family of assets to fit a promotional campaign across Mary’s most-used platforms of MailChimp and Facebook. I collaborated on a gorgeous promotional video (titles and lower thirds) with the brilliant Catherine Finn, who edited and produced the video.

Along with these, I created her Bandcamp page, designing a header, transcribing album notes and summaries, uploading each song, and attaching the PDF of the “A Gaelic Christmas Songbook” as an add-on for the album + songbook deluxe edition.

In partnership with Catherine who tackled the sheet music, I also made formatting updates to the original “A Gaelic Christmas Songbook” to create the finished PDF.

Much love to Mary and give it a listen, it’s a gorgeous piece of work!

Recording Industry Golf & Poker Tournament 2024: Marketing Creative Design

For their 2024 Recording Industry Golf & Poker Tournament, I worked with pro audio event producer KMD Productions to create a design that subtly called back to a playful, retro style while keeping things suitably modern.

Assets included a robust sponsorship deck, promotional assets for use across MailChimp, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and stickers for event day. We utilized photos from past years’ RIGT’s and location imagery to tease this year’s action. Across the board, creative was cohesive and embodied the energizing, familial atmosphere KMD Productions creates at their yearly RIGT.