Design & Illustration
WBUR’s spring ad campaign launched on April 29th inspired by the lettering and headphone / earbud illustration art I’d originally created for the Membership team’s spring fundraising campaign. The campaign is multi-channel, appearing everywhere from highway billboards to news websites — via digital programmatic placements and core outlets like The Boston Globe. The campaign runs …
It’s exciting to keep pushing the design, aesthetic and appeal of WBUR branded thank you gifts. With each campaign, the ideas and execution have gotten better and better thanks to a process that values the expertise of each team member. For the Spring campaign, old school wired earbuds and headphones are the central theme that …
For WBUR’s year-end fundraising campaign, we wanted to tie the branded premium product offerings together for a cohesive look. Working with a color scheme featuring WBUR’s signature yellows and grays, a block type outline and fill wordmark were introduced for a fresh and modern look.
For the past few years, I’ve been working closely with the WBUR development team on their holiday greeting cards thanking donors for their support. Each illustration project has been different stylistically but the themes of thanks, the fall season…and turkeys, for the most part, run throughout – I’ve gotten pretty good at drawing turkeys. “”New …
Whenever the opportunity to work cross-functionally opens up – and with time permitting – I make myself available. It’s a great chance to work with colleagues I normally wouldn’t work with and it’s always fun to work on new projects to stretch my creative brain. My latest work collaboration with Project Citrus at WBUR, which …
Airwaves is a quarterly magazine for WBUR members. It is an inside look at Boston’s NPR News Station. You can read the latest issue here. Past Issues Here are some of the past issues I’ve worked on: Airwaves, fall 2020 issue Airwaves, spring 2020 issue Airwaves, spring 2019 issue Airwaves, fall 2018 issue Airwaves, spring …
The WBUR face mask has been a wildly popular premium this season. It was truly a station-wide effort to bring the face mask to life. There were so many design concepts flying back and forth – well over a dozen designs – but they just didn’t resonate. And then, at the eleventh hour, an editor …
Partnering with members of marketing and digital teams, we worked together on an extension of WBUR’s 2020 on-air and digital election coverage, “Mass. Election Prep.” The goal is to get people ready to vote in just 7 days. We met up on a video call and discussed: design direction for colors and graphic elements like …
WBUR celebrated Mother’s Day this year with something unique – a public radio audio card featuring heartwarming, sincere and funny messages from some of our favorite hosts from WBUR and NPR. Our annual Mother’s Day flower campaign was interrupted due to the pandemic. As we shared alternative ideas for contactless gifts, audio cards stood out …
Who else has seen the memes on the new Facebook care emoji? Emoji holding boba, Netflix, money and beer among many other things. Well, I wanted to throw my own into the ring with some public radio-minded versions featuring WBUR, NPR and public radio in general. The new emoji was announced by Alexandru Voica, a …
This is a direct mail piece that promotes a car donation program in support of WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station. I updated the design to give it a classic fall new england vibe – the added addition of “Boston” on the licensed plate was a nice touch. I didn’t want to feature any specific, real …
Currently, I work for WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station and whenever I hear either WBUR or NPR mentioned in the public funny sphere, it makes me smile. Here’s my latest round-up which I’ll be updating as often as I discover any mentions: 1. Bottle Boi on NYC Plastic Bag Ban haha – anyone catch Saturday …
During the Valentine’s Flower campaign, listeners are asked to support WBUR by ordering Winston Flowers. Design marketing initiatives included a 6×9 postcard piece of direct mail along with email newsletter web banners and digital posters featured at CitySpace, WBUR’s multimedia venue. At WBUR there’s no pay wall & no subscription fee. Everyone can listen, thanks …
What better way to thank WBUR supporters than with a tote bag…postcard. Public radio listeners will definitely appreciate this (I hope). I thought it’d be fun to be self-referential…and a little meta.
It was a great opportunity to re-design a logo I initially worked on. This iteration brings the branding more in line with the branding of WBUR. The color palette uses the organization’s yellow and black paired with a strong, clean typeface following an information hierarchy where the focus is on Murrow Society and then WBUR. …
For the 2019 WBUR Fall campaign, I really wanted to create some special products that a Boston public radio listener would love and appreciate. From waking up in the morning and getting that first sip of coffee in from a light weight camper mug expressing what your priorities are to stowing groceries and whatnot in …
WBUR launched BizLab in 2015 to test and measure the effectiveness of different funding models for public radio. BizLab’s wordmark was refreshed recently to emphasize their leadership in driving innovation and experimentation to identify new revenue channels to sustain public radio into the future. A strong typeface and repositioning of the WBUR logo help to …
The WBUR Marathon is a 26.2-hour event bringing supporters of independent journalism together to build community for Boston’s NPR news station.
WBUR and The Boston Globe joined forces in a true-crime podcast about the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. design direction wordmark (2019)
For the WBUR fall campaign, one of the thank you gifts for our listeners that I designed was a retro radio tin lunchbox. I had a lot of fun working on this design – bringing in elements of NPR, WBUR and the station radio numbers. The “I ❤️Public Radio” sticker was a nice touch. It …
The Fall 2018 campaign for WBUR was a call for supporters to come together to protect independent journalism for Boston’s NPR news station. wordmark design apparel & accessories print & digital promotional design (2018)