Design

I’m an inveterately curious person. There’s little I enjoy more than learning to do something new. Over the past decade, I’ve developed an amateur interest in design, and tried to cultivate my skills through making things.

Websites

I designed and built several websites for friends before joining Pressbooks. Most of the sites I built have gone defunct in the intervening years, but the following remain online in some capacity:

Letterpress Printing

When Laurel and I got married, I designed and printed save the date postcards, and took a letterpress printing class which allowed me to design and make wedding invites, RSVPs, envelopes, and a poetry booklet that we gave to guests as a wedding favor. You can see a gallery of these projects below:

You can read more about the process for these projects in the Wedding Planning Series on my blog.

Graphic Design

I occasionally designed posters and other print media for my jobs at DesignLab and Learning Support Services

I occasionally made posters to announce classes and important events for the Writers in Prisons Project at Oakhill Correctional Institution, where I used to facilitate a poetry class and train and coordinate other volunteers.

I got my start as a ‘designer’ making posters for the FELIX poetry reading series I helped organize while in graduate school. My amateurism is on full display here, but everybody’s gotta learn sometime!