In the time that I have spent in the Department of Transportation and Engineering for Cincinnati at City Hall, I explored all possibilities that environmental design can reach. I created work for wayfinding systems, maps, and landmark signage.

In my roles that I have served the Society of Experiencial Design, I have connected with all kinds of designers who make spaces come alive. In my current role as our Student Board President, I have opened the doors for students to explore all things environmental design by hosting events and collaborating with our larger Cincinnati Chapter.

Lastly, my exposure to restaurant and retail design through working with Chute Gerderman, I worked on complex projects that involved the collaboration of multiple different kinds of designers. In this internship, it was my first exposure to working with CADTools and applying it to scale graphic design solutions for spaces.

Package design, for many designers, was my first area of interest when discovering my love for graphic design. In the areas where I have been able to explore this medium of design, I have worked with Procter & Gamble for brands like Crest and Oral-B. Although I can disclose much information on this kind of work, I had the joy of learning all the details involved with packaging design, from regulatory needs to ways to make packaging visually interesting and engaging.

In vast amounts of school projects, I had adapted methods to effectively go about creating a brand from scratch. Particularly in my web design projects, I went through rounds of curation processes of how to effectively execute my ideas with a strong brand strategy. This always involved ways that I could take a project further or into different media, and discovering the most effective translations and executions.

In addition to this, I have also worked for Gain Laundry Care. In working for this brand under Procter & Gamble, my team and I constantly worked through strategies configured through consumer and trend research.

Storytelling is the root of connection. Without having the ability to convey a message, the purpose of a graphic designer's work becomes lost. While working at City Hall, storytelling was at the baseline for everything. With creating work for the neighborhoods of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan area, there is a great foundation of history that often gets forgotten. As graphic designers, it's our duty to tell these stories not just through words but through color, imagery, motion, or layout. From my perspective, learning and executing effective methods of storytelling is how you really get people to connect with your work. Without connection, what purpose do we serve?