A little bit of everything. A lot of figuring things out.

A tedious, paper-based process involving highlighters became an automated tool for measuring operator downtime across a campus.

I designed and programmed a utility that turned imported data into reports by building, shift, and individual operators. The reports helped identify where the greatest amounts of time were being lost, with early estimates suggesting the solution could save $3 million.

Since 2023 I have been building and maintaining the Sweet Life Garden Group website, a local non-profit group centered on community gardening.

The group wanted a WordPress website so that they could add blog entries at their leisure and I built on that foundation using the Semplice dynamic theme.

For more than 20 years, Catlin Park in LaSalle County, Illinois, relied on a hand-painted trail map that no longer accurately reflected its 333 acres of trails and natural features.

In 2023, I worked with the park director to map the trails using GPS and create an updated trail map. I designed trail markers that use both colors and dashed patterns to make them easier to distinguish for people with color-vision deficiencies. The finished map also included information about the park and was made available digitally.

We're now discussing updates to the map for 2027, along with new park signage.

For a pop-up venue called Pete's Place, I produced a two-color silkscreened poster in my basement studio. Printed on 100 lb. cover stock, the 12 × 18-inch poster features Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, with the eyes removed to give the image a different feel.

Sometimes a tight deadline and a limited budget are all part of the fun.

The Shifties are a rock group out of Chicago, Illinois. Their drummer was familiar with my work and recommended me to help design their new record album cover.

They had some loose ideas, but not quite the tools and know-how to execute them. I refined their image files, laid out the text, vectorized the logo, and submitted the final artwork to Smashed Plastic who pressed the record and printed the cover.

PedTerra Shoes, an online retailer specializing in open-toe-box footwear, wanted a custom wordmark rather than an off-the-shelf font.

I designed a distinctive logo for the website in 2019, then updated the wordmark in 2020 when a trademark conflict required the business to change its name. They've continued using the logo ever since.