Work | Just for Fun
Hide and Seek is a true crime podcast focused on missing persons cases. As an avid consumer of all things true crime, I have also been a fan of this podcast since the first season was released back in 2019. Recently, I managed to become involved in ways that help the podcast out - a few years ago I spent a ton of time putting together a timeline in Miro for them to help with that season's case investigations. This year, I was lucky enough to be asked to help out with the things you see here - new business cards and shirts to hand out at CrimeCon 2025, as well as shirts for a search event, and shirts for a fundraiser for a child of a team member that has cancer. I used their branding standards (fonts, colors, logos, etc) to create all of these artifacts, and volunteering my time to help has been so rewarding!
Indian Valley Democrats is a local political organization that was soliciting volunteer efforts during our last election. I reached out and offered to help with anything they might need in terms of design - social media posts, flyers, etc. One of the first things I found I needed to do was redesign their logo. The logo they gave me to work with was blurry and pixelated, and therefore didn't scale well. I redesigned their logo and gave them a few different options to choose from (option 1 is the one that most closely represents the one they were using at the time). I was able to trace/draw the state of PA, recreate the font, and add new logo images for all of these options.
Over the years I have done various logo designs - two for teams at TherapyNotes (XChange and Design Squad), and one for a friend's shea butter company. Making logos wouldn't be my forte, but they were fun challenges for me that pushed me outside of my comfort zone!
XChange was a new development team to join the rest of the billing team, so they wanted their logo to feature an X. I had the idea of including parts of the other two billing teams' logos (Impact and Aftershock) in with XChange's, which is what that blue/green/red fireball is in the lower left. Both Impact and Aftershock had images like that in their logos.
The Design Squad was in need of a new logo, so I put together a couple of options - one that used a plethora of colors, and another that used all of TherapyNotes' primary colors in a sort of ombre fashion.
O & A Shea Butter was also fun, because my friend had a vision - he wanted a tree, with roots, and he liked script-style fonts, and he had some specific colors he wanted me to use as well. I love trying to bring someone's vision to life! He was going to use these logos on stickers that he would put on his jars of homemade shea butter.
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