Full spread illustration and lettering inspired by vintage vegetable crate labels accompanying a story about finding the right CSA for you.

Chalk lettering for Oprah Magazine about recipes that have only 3 main ingredients. The chalkboards and myself flew out for the shoot, but I finished the lettering beforehand so there was enough time to also prepare the food.

I was asked to create an illustration about  rebranding and replacing the Interstate 5 Bridge with the CRC.

Client: Willamette Week
Art Director: Ben Mollica

I was pleased to work with CMYK magazine to create lettering for the Table of Contents, Facebook Poll spread and Featured page. I put my own spin on the "CMYK" colors used throughout the magazine and gave it a more muted tone. I was pretty psyched to work with all the copy and fill the pages with lots of lettering and filagree.

Client: CMYK Magazine
Art Director: Ron Cala

I made a series of illustrations for Northwest Community Credit Union. The assignment was to create "caricatures" of their 5 key demographics, I this I captured the essence of these parts of Oregon.

Client: Northwest Community Credit Union
Art Director: Bryan Taylor
Agency: Treeman Design

I was asked to create a print ad and web ads for Stampin' Up for the holidays. The web ads were animated in a fun way.

Client: Stampin' Up
Art Director: DeAnn Zebelean
Agency: Barton Media

It's always a blast to work on bike posters as it's an activity I enjoy myself and every year Artcrank offers that opportunity!  For this type driven poster, I was inspired by vintage bike emblems. I decided to letter fun bike related sayings that almost any bike lover would enjoy. 

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Client: Artcrank

These headlines were used in the USA Philatelic Catalog which is the stamp catalog for the United States Postal Service. I was introduced to several collections and enjoyed interpreting the themes to the style of lettering. I'm more of a, "get a stack of forever stamps and keep them all around the house and studio" kind of collector but this project made me want to explore more of the designs they offer.

Client: United States Postal Service
Art Director: Greg Breeding
Agency: Journey Group

Full page opener for Field and Stream magazine for an article on duck recipes.

Client: Field and Stream 
Art Director: Kim Gray

I was asked to create hand lettered quotes by students of Westwood College. These quotes are used on facebook cover pages and posters hung around the administration office. 

Client: Westwood College
Art Director: Laura Rich
Agency: Cactus

My studio, Magnetic North, hosted a screenprinting demonstration with We Make. I made this illustration to be printed on koozies, t-shirts and tote bags. We also collaborated on a 27" x 30" poster of Oregon. Watch the recap video of the event here. 

Client: We Make

Chalkboard lettering for Milwaukee Magazine's Best Burgers issue. I was asked to create a fun, type-heavy cover and I'm pleased with how it turned out.

Client: Milwaukee Magazine
Art Direction: Kathryn Lavey

A fun little card I made for the 2012 Holiday season. I actually had some time to write holidays cards so I  posted on twitter that if you sent me your address I'd send you a card! I sent about 200 holiday cards to clients, friends, family, internet friends, and strangers. 

For Shop Smart's Januray issue, I did the lettering for the opener and a series of illustrations around their favorite stuff of the year.

Client: Shop Smart Magazine
Art Director: Tammy Fernandez

Lettering for Nintendo's "Play As You Are" campaign. These ads are for the more "girly" games available on the 3DS. It's fun seeing the ads on TV, magazines and around the web. 

Client: Nintendo
Art Director: Kelly Grubb
Agency: Goodby Silverson & Partners

I was psyched to make the cover for the Little Book of Lettering and also pretty intimidated considering all the talent inside this little book!

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Client: Chronicle Books
Art Director: Eloise Leigh

I created this poster that depicts the process and history of making cider. I did the illustrations and lettering.

Client: Pipsqueak Cider
Art Director: Jeff Champtaloup
Agency: brainCELLS 

This was a majorly fun project for me. It is always fun to step out of your comfort zone for a bit and work on something other than paper. So, when Hand-Eye Supply approached me with the idea of hand-painting a vintage trike, I was really excited to get started. I had this big crate by my desk in the studio for a couple weeks and hand-painted it with 1-Shot. The trike now lives outside Hand-Eye Supply attracting customers into the shop.

Client: Hand-Eye Supply
Art Director: Tobias Berblinger

I was asked by Hand- Eye Supply to create a bandana inspired by the trike I painted for them. It was printed by my boyfriend, of Man vs Ink, so it was a fun collaboration!

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Client: Hand-Eye Supply
Art Director: Tobias Berblinger
Printer: Man vs Ink

I designed birthday cards for American Greetings inspired by Vaudeville posters from the 20's. Inside the card there is a signing gorilla and a singing beaver in the other.

Client: American Greetings
Art Director: Erin Dennis

These decorative letters were used as chapter openers for Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition. This book series really speak to my nostalgic personality as I've loved everything "old-timey" since I was a kid so I was psyched to work on the lettering for the most recent book.

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Client: Chroncile Books
Art Director: Emily Dubin

Lettering for printable signs that small business owners can download from HP's small business website. 

Client: HP
Art Director: Joanna Sincich
Agency: Proximity

Chalkboard lettering for the cover of Baltimore Bride. 

Client: Baltimore Bride
Art Director: Staci Lanham

Header for Atlanta Magazine's food blog, Covered Dish. 

Client: Atlanta Magazine
Art Director: Eric Capossela

As part of the Rock the Vote campaign, several artists were asked to make a piece that said"#Go Vote" and post around the interwebs to encourage everyone to get out and vote. Inspired by political buttons and pins, I hand-lettered the phrase in a collection of circles.

Client: Rock the Vote

I worked on some lettering with Adobe for their new Myths campaign. While my sketches did not go to final, I'm still pretty stoked about how they turned out so I'm keeping them. These are the 2 options I presented to them. 

Client: Adobe
Art Director: Ryan Donahue
Agency: Owen Jones & Partners

Winter Cabin Collection is a limited edition collection of products handmade by myself, Man vs Ink and Wanderlust vintage & handmade for Wanderlust's holiday window display. Photos by Kelly Searle.

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Client: Wanderlust vintage & handmade

These banners are part of the Winter Cabin Collection. I just love this phrase, it was orignially written for the blanket but I thought it would look great on a wall as well.

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Client: Winter Cabin Collection

A whimsical logo Wanderlust vintage & handmade inspired by 60's travel brochures. If you are in Portland, you should certainly stop by this gem. This store features some of the cutest vintage dresses in town and carries lots of accessories and handmade items. 

Client: Wanderlust vintage & handmade

Lettering and illustration for full page opener for Baltimore Magazine all about the best crab restaurants in Baltimore. And since Baltimore is known for blue crab, deciding on the color scheme was pretty easy.

Client: Baltimore Magazine
Art Director: Amanda White

Logo for a digital magazine for lovers of classic motorcycles, 
custom motorcycles and cafe racers. 

Client: Beautiful Bikes
Art Director: Blake Mills

Through a twitter conversation, I was asked to create a print for the great site Help Ink. I knew I wanted to do something about cats (for obvious reasons) but wasn't sure what I wanted it to say. My friend Dan Lurie came up with this great quote that worked so perfectly the rest came together easily.

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Client: Help Ink
Art Director: Drew Carson

Lettering for the well opener for some fantastic Tex Mex recipes in the style of a menu chalkboard. I really enjoyed this project because I got to pull from some beautiful western inspiration and I got to lasso a taco!

Client: Everyday with Rachael Ray
Art Director: Kelly McGuire

Cover for the Algonquin Reader, a free book which features author essays and excerpts from forthcoming fiction by Jill McCorkle, Julie Wu, Caroline Leavitt, Susan Nussbaum, David Samuel Levinson, and Rebecca Lee.

Client: Algonquin Reader
Art Director: Anne Winslow

Lettering for Starbucks, #24 on the list of The World's Most Innovative Companies in the style of a chalkboard menu. It was a lot of fun to fit all the facts and figures into the space, similar to a chalkboard menu packed with drink and food items.

Client: Fast Company
Art Director: Ted Keller

Full page lettering for Woman's Day magazine. These quotes act as openers for three sections of the magazine; Live Well, Be Well, Eat Well. My mom was excited to see my illustrations in the magazine she has subscribed for for the past 15 years. 

Client: Woman's Day
Art Director: Liza Aelion

One of the perks of having a large studio with lots of fun equipment is to host events where we can print, make work and have fun gatherings with our friends and the Portland art community. These are some posters I made that we printed and hung around the city.

Client: Magnetic North

Lettering for display decks for Sweet Bliss wine. These were displayed in Fred Meyers and other grocery stores where you can purchase all your bar-be-que needs.

Client: Sweet Bliss
Art Director: Amy Hall,  Shawn Bavaresco
Illustration: Amy Hall
Agency: Grow

Full page lettering and illustration chock full of fun facts about mint in Oregon. Working with Edible Portland is always a treat because I love learning new things about Oregon.

Client: Edible Portland
Art Director: Lola Milholland

Lettering and illustration for a hand-out for a conference for Ecotrust that work to connect farms to preschools. I wanted to make the important information on the hand-out easy to read and organized but still keep a fun look. 

Client: Ecotrust
Art Director: Lola Milholland

I created this poster for Bobbly Soloman of the Fox is Black for his Quarterly Co. subscribers. Quarterly Co.™ is a subscription service that enables people to receive physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice.

Client: Fox is Black
Art Director: Bobby Soloman

Lettering and illustration for Eugene Weekly's Next Big Thing, a competition to find the best original local musician. I spoke with Todd 3 years prior to this illustration before I moved to Portland about a design position at Eugene Weekly, I was so happy he kept my business card on file.

Client: Eugene Weekly
Art Director: Todd Cooper

Cover for the AARP Almanac that features Free Stuff, Scams and Savings, Diet and Health Tips, Movie Classics and More.

Client: AARP
Art Director: Anne Masters

Lettering and design for a journal based on my Mini Goals Notepad that helps you plan, dream and organize to make the most out of life. Write it, list it, live it! 

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Client: Chronicle Books
Editor: Kate Woodrow
Art Director: Kristen Hewitt

Illustration for Ferocious Quarterly, I was invited to create a piece for Ferocious Quarterly's Deep Sea/Outer Space edition. For the Deep Sea theme I went with what I think is motivational for scuba divers.

Client: Ferocious Quarterly
Art Director: Nate Utesch

I contributed to the latest issue of Oh Comely magazine. I was asked to illustrate a piece of interesting advice I was given. I decided to illustrate this piece of advice my grandmother once told my sister and I when we were younger. It has stuck out in my memory since then though I don't consider myself an avid whiskey drinker. The other artists sharing advice in the feature are Ben Javens, Anke Weckmann, Sarah Abbott and Sarah Julia Clark. Check out more on this lovely magazine, here.

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Client: Oh Comely

Lettering for Indianapolis Monthly's Best New Restaurant issue. I created lettering that was used on the cover, the opener for the article and The "No." was used to Number each restaurant.

Client: Indianapolis Monthly
Art Director: Emily Johnson

A quote from the awesome movie "Roadhouse"  with Patrick Swayze. 

I made a series of illustrations inspired by 60's prints for fun. I think they would be fun for shirt's, party invites or patterns. If you are interested in licensing these images, let me know!

Lettering for title page, sub head and inside pull quote for an article about the history of the Moravian community in Bethlehem, PA for Lehigh University's faculty magazine, Acumen.

I did some holiday themed lettering for Better Home and Gardens’ facebook page. Every week leading up to Christmas they have been posting one of the words and their followers have been sharing their favorite Christmas memories sparked by these words. Last week, they revealed that when all the words were put together they made a cute Christmas wreath which is available to download for gifts tags and Christmas cards! You can find them to download here!

Client: Better Homes & Gardens
Art Director: Nicole Teut

I contributed to The Everywhere Project, a collaborative design project that pays tribute to the classic folk song “I’ve Been Everywhere”. It is curated by Adrian Walsh, a designer and illustrator based out of Southern California.

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Client: The Everywhere Project

I made this print for a show I did at Ristretto Coffee Roasters here in Portland. I pretty much start everyday with a freshly brewed Americano from any number of my favorite local coffee shops, so coming up with ideas for this poster was a breeze, with plenty of inspiration nearby.

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A print I made for a show about bikes. At the time I was riding an old King Scott 3-speed bike and was thinking fixie bikes were getting too much attention and 3-speeds can be bad ass too.

I sometimes do branding for small businesses. This is a collection of some of my favorites.

On a particularly hot day and unable to focus on my client work, I doodled this little popsicle struttin' down the street. The next day I decided to ink it up and I uploaded it to my blog as a free desktop wallpaper. Download it here!

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Quote from one of my favorite shows, Home Movies. 

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I did these illustrations for Camp Pikaland, a virtual school for artists. I was asked by Amy Ng, of the awesome blog Pikaland to make a blog header and these other critters were used as default avatars for the users. 

Client: Camp Pikaland
Art Director: Amy Ng

Made a typographic iceberg desktop wallpaper for the awesome blog The Fox is Black. As I was brushing up on my knowledge of icebergs, I was inspired by their lonesome lifestyle just drifting off to sea and decided icebergs live a bit like hermits. Which made me think of the Bjork song “Unison,” and the lyric “I thrive best hermit style.” I think this quote speaks to me on some level but I'm not a total shut in.

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Client: The Fox is Black
Art Director: Bobby Soloman

A set of cheery prints that were screenprinted to celebrate yourself or someone awesome that are sold in my etsy shop.

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Print inspired by Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth Commencement Speech.

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Poster for a Farmers' Market in Winston-Salem, NC. It was fun working type into a huge tomato. 

Client: Dixie Classic Farmers' Market
Art Director: Troy Tyner
Agency: Mitre Agency

Desktop wallpaper I made in collaboration with Alyssa Nassner of Ten Paces and Draw. Available to download free for your computer, iphone or ipad at The Fox is Black.

Client: The Fos is Black
Sketch by Alyssa Nassner

A collection of some of my favorites from my  project, Handwritten Letters, which was an ongoing project where I drew a letter from the alphabet everyday and mail it to a participant, in order to spread the idea of writing more handwritten letters.

I gathered addresses through twitter from people interested in receiving a letter from me, my goal was to get 365 addresses. I exceeded that goal in just over one day.

My contribution to ARTCRANK, a poster party for bike people.

Client: ARTCRANK

Illustration and lettering for an article about the exportation of Blueberries from Oregon to South Korea.

Client: Edible Portland
Art Director: Lola Milholland

I created lettering for the cover and interior spread of Willamette Week on how Groupon hurts local business. The idea was to give it a sign painter look that you might see at used car dealerships. It was fun to explore that style lettering and work in these bright colors. 

Client: Willamette Week
Art Director: Ben Mollica

I used to create a lot of custom prints for my Etsy customers. This print was requested by an Etsy customer and I ended up not charging my custom work rate and making it as a poster. It's been a popular print in the shop and it's certainly one of my favorites. 

I'm usually listening to TV When I work and it's a pretty equal rotation of Law and Order, The Simpson's, Dr Katz, Arrested Development and Seinfeld. Every once in a while I will feel compelled to write down a quote from an episode. On this occasion  I lettered this quote from The Simpson's from the episode "Bart's Inner Child."

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Headline for an article about traveling to Ireland to discover your roots, first hand. 

Client: Budget Travel

Every issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray has a specials of the month chalkboard opener with a different artist each month, this was my first illustration with them. 

Client: Everyday with Rachael Ray
Art Director: Chalkley Calderwood

I made a series of prints with the phrase "Bike However you Like" for a gallery show about bikes. Living in Portland has certainly opened me up to the varieties of bikes that exists. I could have included at least 10 more including a bike that can wield a canoe that I've seen rolling down a street in Portland. 

I was pleased to create this lettering for the cover of the Portland Mercury's Queer Issue. Surely most of you are familiar with Dan Savage's "It Get's Better" project, and if you are not then, by all means, familiarize yourself. My lettering accompanied an illustration by Joe Newton.

Client: The Portland Mercury
Art Director: Suji Allen

I made this moving announcement for Wanderlust & Lodekka (back when Wanderlust was in a little 1960's trailer). I highly recommend visiting both of these shops if you are in Portland.

Client: Wanderlust & Lodekka

I made this poster for a group show about beer in Portland. One of my favorite kinds of beers are Nitro beers which are often rare to find on tap any given night so it was my main inspiration for this poster.

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This was pretty much my mantra after graduating college. I made posters of it before figuring out what I would do and where I would end up. It's pretty encouraging to look at if you find yourself not making yourself useful, as my mom would say.

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Inspired by the perfectly creepy scene from Twin Peeks when Leeland Palmer sings this wholesome tune. 

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This notepad is based on my Mini Goals Chalkboards that I started making in 2009. The notepad was published by Chronicle Books.

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Mini Goals Chalkboards are real slate chalkboards hand painted by me with fun phrases to help you get through your day one to-do at a time. While they are currently all sold out, I may produce more in the future.