Selected Work
I like making things look good, but more importantly, making design work. My experience spans editorial design, branding, digital creative, and front-end web development, combining visual thinking with the technical skills to bring ideas to life.
From editorial layouts and digital graphics to websites and brand identities, I approach design with the same goal I bring to content: make the idea clear, useful, and worth looking at.
Designer • Student Journalist
My design roots started in student journalism. In 2018, my work was recognized in the Outstanding Design category by the American Press Association, combining journalism, visual hierarchy, and editorial storytelling.
Graphic Designer
Worked as a graphic designer for Waynesburg University, creating visual materials while developing a foundation in branding, layout, typography, and designing within an established visual identity.
Featured Project
This portfolio isn't built from a drag-and-drop template. I designed and coded it by hand using HTML and CSS, translating the same visual thinking I use in my creative work into the experience you're using right now.
From typography and responsive layouts to navigation, video integration, and project pages, the site gave me the opportunity to bring design and development together in one evolving project.
Visit the live site ↗Where It Started
Before I was creating social campaigns and producing vertical video, I was a student journalist learning how design shapes the way people experience a story.
In 2018, I was among the winners in the Outstanding Design category awarded by the American Press Association. That editorial background still influences how I approach creative work today: establish hierarchy, make complicated information approachable, and give every visual element a reason to be there.
Branding + Entrepreneurship
Heart & Hand is my small online jewelry business and a creative outlet where I get to build a brand from the ground up.
I design the brand materials myself, giving me the opportunity to think not just like a designer, but like a business owner. Every creative decision has to work together to create a recognizable, cohesive identity.
Design Toolkit
My design experience sits at the intersection of storytelling, digital content, branding, and web, allowing me to think about both how something looks and how someone experiences it.
Visual creative designed around a clear message, audience, and brand identity.
Responsive layouts designed to make digital work easy to navigate and engaging to explore.
Translating visual ideas into custom front-end experiences through hand-written code.
Using typography, hierarchy, structure, and imagery to strengthen storytelling.
Creating visual systems that give projects and businesses their own recognizable point of view.
Designing assets with the platform, format, audience, and larger content experience in mind.