I currently devote all of my energy to new media design, user experience strategy, and content strategy at SEIU, the Service Employees International Union.

Progressive Media USA asked me to refine their logo and develop a WordPress-based site for their blog, press releases, and research. The site integrates with Twitter for social news updates and promises to be a major outpost for progressive advocacy in the 2008 elections.

A collection of images featuring some of the campaign stickers, placards, buttons and other visibility/chum designed for Chris Dodd’s Presidential campaign.

While working as art director and designer for the Dodd campaign, I designed a number of event banners and backdrops like this one for events around the country. Smaller repeating text beneath the main type assures that the campaign’s message of the day will make the cut regardless of how brief the events’ coverage is on TV. Including the website draws TV viewers to engage the campaign online, sign up and to contribute online.

Commissioned by the Department of the Romantic Atlas and the Philadelphia Special Romantic District, this data collection form is a mashup of familiar voter registration and IRS forms loosely following Federal paperwork guidelines. The Romantic Atlas is the brainchild of Michelle Schmitt and aims to use data collected through such forms to map the density of Philadelphia area courtship habits.

The 215 Festival is a unique and fun annual Literary Arts Festival in Philadelphia. This schedule gave patrons a quick reference guide to the full week of festival events.

The postcards and poster here were in support of an annual event at Art Sanctuary in North Philadelphia that I had the honor of being involved with. The program engages young people in the arts while connecting with the community’s proud history of civil rights activism.

Clients: Art Sanctuary and Temple University/Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia

Objective: Express the connection between current high school student-activists and earlier generations’ fight for equality.

Design: Reversible layout mirrors Philadelphia student-activists with the Little Rock, Arkansas teenagers who tested desegregation half a century earlier.

From a series of postcards created for Philadelphia’s Center for Emerging Visual Artists.

In addition to designing graphics for these emails, I witnessed the evolution of email campaigning in the 2008 race. Emails from our internet team at Dodd developed a reputation of innovation and experimentation during the primary run.

Often graphics were needed quickly in order to respond to the news of the day:

The Talk Clock was one of the most popular features of ChrisDodd.com. In an effort to encourage a more fair allocation of time at the debates we designed a tool for tracking talk time live during each debate:

Finally, a selection of graphics from a contest that ultimately struck out with lawyers for Major League Baseball.