Motion & design

Client ad creative, animation, digital experiments, and a standing habit of chasing the same light across continents.

Case study: mobile app ad creative

Digital content creator & social media manager for a mobile coloring app, 2021–22 — static ads, animated GIFs, App Store video, and original animation produced for launch and the #LiveColorfully campaign.

ad creativemotion graphicssocial campaign

Social ad for a coloring app showing hands holding a phone with a mandala being colored — Twitter/X ad — static

Animated GIF of a mandala coloring itself in layers — Animated banner, 250×250

Animated GIF of a spiral mandala filling with color — Animated banner, 300×600

App Store video, 20s

Desert road — illustrated animation, 14s

Live Colorfully campaign graphic over rainbow water droplets — #LiveColorfully campaign graphic

Color in Motion graphic in neon script over rainbow fibers — #LiveColorfully — color in motion

Advocacy & social graphics

Selected graphics produced in role for a children's health nonprofit — concept, copy, and design.

social graphicscopy-led designadvocacy

Graphic listing slang names for THC in code-style brackets: behind every name, THC is still the common denominator — "Behind every name" — THC naming series

Stacked labels reading THC, cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, flower — each followed by 'still harms kids' — "Different names, same risk"

Presentation slide: we are an ally, a resource, hand-raisers, advocates, solution-drivers, relentless — we are a Voice — "We are a Voice" — deck slide

Action alert email header with the White House and the words We Need Your Action — Action alert header

Golden hour, everywhere

The site's namesake. The same light, chased across two continents — a capital city, an English seafront, French villages, old stone, and still water.

washington, at the edges of the day

The U.S. Capitol at dawn down a tree-lined mall, lamps glowing — the capitol, dawn

American flags circling the Washington Monument plaza at sunrise — washington monument, sunrise

Curved stone bench leading toward the Washington Monument at sunset — washington monument, sunset

The Washington Monument silhouetted against a golden evening sky — obelisk, last light

The U.S. Capitol framed by a stone balustrade under bright clouds — view from the library of congress

Ferris wheel and Washington Monument silhouetted together at dusk — america 250, the mall

the english coast

Beach huts along Brighton seafront under a blazing golden sky — beach huts, brighton

Ornate Victorian bandstand silhouetted against an orange sunset sky — the bandstand, brighton

Winged statue holding an olive branch against golden clouds — king edward vii memorial, brighton

Ruined west pier standing in the sea under a hazy golden sun — west pier ruins, brighton

Green headland meeting the sea at the Seven Sisters cliffs — seven sisters

Sun setting over still water with a heron silhouetted in the shallows — seven sisters, last light

france, in passing

Parisian doorway with blue door, stone steps, and potted plants — paris, 1st arrondissement

Stone wall, cypress trees, and vineyard rows in Provence — provence

Café table on a terrace overlooking a hazy valley — salon-de-provence

Palms and blue sea from a hillside above Cannes — cannes

japan, briefly

Sun setting down a canal between neon-signed buildings in Osaka — golden hour, osaka

Vermilion torii gate and stone lanterns among trees in Nara — torii gate, nara

old stone

Columns and ruins of the Roman Forum under bright clouds — roman forum

Weathered gravestones and grass in an Edinburgh cemetery — edinburgh cemetery

Crumbling stone ruins catching warm sunlight against a blue sky — mount falcon ruins, colorado

Red rock mountains and desert scrub under dramatic clouds — red rock canyon, nevada

Statue of Liberty from below against rippled clouds — liberty, from below

still water

Birch trees leaning over turquoise Lake Michigan water — empire, michigan

Sunset over the calm water of Sleeping Bear Bay — sleeping bear bay

Clouds reflected in still shoreline water at Leland — leland, michigan

Clouds mirrored in the wide, calm Potomac river — little falls, the potomac

Web & digital marketing

A complete mock small-business website — brand, copy, structure, and SEO-minded content for a fictional Colorado tour company — built as the capstone of a digital marketing bootcamp.

LocalYokle — Colorado Tours by Local Experts ✳

Digital experiments

Photo manipulation, glitch studies, and found texture — the same pattern-hungry eye as the paintings, pointed at pixels.

Dark textured photo edit of leaves in deep reds and oranges — study i

Silhouetted sculpture and pine tree against a gridded cloudy sky with a triangle overlay — study ii

Glitch art of silhouettes over scrambled neon color bands — study iii

Wall of torn, layered posters and paint forming an accidental collage — study iv — found collage

Glowing multicolored particles scattered over a dark grid, like a starfield — study v — starfield

Internet-native

My first freelance contracts were meme work, including several years of graphics and internet-native content both for fun and later for clients. I've got an experiential fluency in the internet's fastest-moving visual language, acquired professionally. This tradition continues at This Memes War, a Substack on memes, media, and politics.

Hand-drawn trolley problem meme parody with annotated branching track — the trolley problem, annotated