Sifted: Handpicked Recipes From Our Mothers is a cookbook I designed, wrote, and curated that pays homage to the wonderful traditions and family recipes of generations past and present. 

Let's Play: The Make-it, Build-it, Paste-it, Do-it Super Fantastic Fun Kit is a project I designed for young children intended to promote free, innovative, creative play, as well as educate parents and caregivers on the importance of play in the lives of both children and adults. For more information and background, please look here and here and here and here.

Give Me Liberty is a collaborative project between myself and Ellie Reynolds. It documents the experiences of those involved in the Liberty Parade and other events surrounding the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 1-4, 2008. It includes photographs of the events, personal testimonies, and surveys filled out by participants on the day of the Liberty Parade asking for their opinions on liberty and democracy throughout the United States. 

Capacity Building & Program Development Initiative brochure created for Little Earth of United Tribes, a nonprofit working to nurture and support the growing urban American Indian population in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Two-sided Portfolio Requirements Brochure created for the Admissions Office at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

Catalog and postcard design for an exhibition showcasing new work by the recipients of the 

2007-08 MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Emerging Artists.

LP record album designs for one of my favorite music-makers, Jens Lekman, based off of the current design for his compilation album Oh You're So Silent Jens. 

Cover design for Print magazine highlighting a story on youth design hero Dylan C. Lathrop.

The bulletin board chair: Part of a larger concept involving flattening 3D household objects and re-appropriating them to serve a new purpose.

Four-layer screenprint derived from the pages of 1st edition 1930s Nancy Drew novels.

A catalog showcasing the 2006 AIGA medalists–Michael Bierut, Rick Valicenti, and Lorraine Wild.

I Like Things is a handmade book illustrating a tendency to document life's simple pleasures in my journals. Showcard press type was printed on found illustrations, objects, and cut-paper collage compositions. Hand-drawn type is incorporated throughout, and all illustrated pages flow into blank pages to emphasize the concept of a journal. Screenprinted cover, stab bound. 

Identity created for Ingebretsen's, a Minneapolis-based retail store specializing in Scandinavian food, clothing, gifts, and crafts. Cross-stitched icons were turned into patterns, screen-printed on tissue paper and applied to other printed matter for the store.

Explorations in collage leading up to the final poster advertising the Creative Activities building at the Minnesota State Fair.