I've been a digital and graphic designer since 2011. My mission: help your organization stand out with snappy, accessible designs built to fit your needs.

That includes infographics, icons, motion design, merch, and other one-of-a-kind designs for web, print, and social.

—George Miller

How can I help you achieve your goals?

Digital

Including All materials optimized for screens, like websites, emails, social media graphics, ad creative, and more. Back to top 

Screenshot of a page from the guide with a hand holding up a phone.

Hustle user guide

2024 / Layout, editorial

For Hustle, the communications platform, I designed this digital-only user guide designed to look good on screens, be legible at any size, and to seamlessly flow from page to page.

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A phone with the Team Turnout logo and “I voted” stickers.

#TeamTurnout portal

2022 / web design

#TeamTurnout was a purpose-built portal with resources to help voters, volunteers, and canvassers boost turnout in the 2022 election.

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Abstract shapes in this website's color scheme.

This website

2024 / Web design

This site and its illustrations were hand-built with HTML and CSS — in other words, no frameworks or CMS. My priorities: quick load times, accessibility, and a unique look. Feel free to poke around in the source files!

An overhead photo of kids painting on a messy table with a button reading “Start the adventure.”

Summer Art Camp email

2017 / email

The Art League's beloved Summer Art Camp deserved a beautiful email to trigger the stampede of registration. Starting with an overhead photo I'd taken at a previous camp, I designed this email to capture the joy and mess of young artists.

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Several images from the Team Turnout library with voting reminders and candidates.

Three emails for #TeamTurnout

2022 / email

These are three of the many emails #TeamTurnout volunteers received to highlight new additions to the image library and remind them of upcoming events worth posting about.

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Merch

Including Branded apparel, giveaways, fundraising items, and assorted bits and bobs like stickers, buttons, and pins. Back to top 

A pile of colorful stickers: “Hot to Vote,” “TOTV 2024” and “Vote”

T.O.T.V. stickers

2024 / stickers

When Hustle headed to the DNC to promote TOTV (texting out the vote), they asked me to design a handful of giveaway stickers. The brief: colorful, fun, and current.

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A sweatshirt and sticker with Team Nabeela designs

Merch in support of Nabeela Syed

2022 / apparel

I was thrilled to support Nabeela Syed’s campaign in 2022 with some merch designs. You can read more about Rep. Syed's historic campaign in Cosmopolitan, among other places.

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Brightly colored Voter buttons, Vote stickers, and enamel Vote pins with confetti

Get-out-the-vote campaign

2018 / social, infographics

I helped GoodWerk make these get-out-the-vote kits with merch including a poster by illustrator David Alvarado and stickers, buttons, pins, and voter infographics designed by me.

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Motion

Including Everything from short, snappy animations for social media to longer, scripted videos. My role has included art direction, videography, scripting, editing, and animating. Back to top 

Still image from the video the White House illustrated

Animated explainer: Program launch

2020 / social, video

For this canvassing program launch announcement video, I animated everything in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro using preexisting and custom-made vector assets.

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Still image from the video with a map of states with Automatic Voter Registration

Animated explainer: AVR

2019 / social, video

I love creating animated .gifs and quick animations for social media, not just fully produced launch videos. Sometimes, that includes rapid-response animations, too, like this short video explaining Automatic Voter Registration.

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Eight people in blue squares in the style of the Brady Bunch intro sequence

The Betsy Bunch

2018 / special effects

Set design, videography, and editing in support of Betsy Dirksen Londrigan's 2018 campaign for U.S. House, and featuring the candidate's very patient family. I combined the individual videos in After Effects to create what you see here.

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From the video: Daniel Biss looks at his whiteboard with a broken loading animation on it

How to Unf*** Our Taxes

2018 / animation

“whoever the **** made this deserves $5 million dollars bc this singlehandedly convinced me my absentee vote is worth it” — Twitter comment

This was the most-watched video I made for GoodWerk.

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Infographics

Including Graphics designed to break down complex concepts (like voting procedures or legislation) and visualize data in streamlined, accessible ways. Back to top 

Details from infographics depicting ballots and a U.S. map

Voter infographics

2022 / social

Many voters simply don't know the ballot options available to them, and official sources often overcomplicate things. For these #TeamTurnout resources, I prioritized short, accessible, and accurate messages. (Read the full case study here.)

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An infographic with icons and topline impact numbers for the year 2022

Infographics for social

2022–23 / social

Infographics served three ways: an "our year in numbers" post distilling key metrics for the midterms, a classic quote post for the Instagram grid, and a simplified elections calendar designed for easy saving and sharing.

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Paintbrushes and tubes of paint

Art student explainers

2014–15 / social, illustration

This tongue-in-cheek quiz linked prospective art students to the appropriate page of the class catalog.

This infographic explains all the tiny bits of info on the tubes of paint you see at any art supply store.

This Pinterest-sized infographic breaks down everything about paintbrushes artists and art students should know about.

A detail from the infographic comparing candidate's stances on gun violence

NRA-backed incumbents infographic

2018 / social

This compare-and-contrast infographic for GoodWerk, decked out in anti-gun-violence orange, spotlighted Illinois incumbents backed by the NRA and their pro-gun-safety opponents.

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Just for fun

Including Everything that wasn't work for hire, like pet projects and arts & crafts. Back to top 

Mockups of Slumbre ads with taglines Drift Off and Cozy Mode

Slumbre

2023 / Branding

The first of three quick brand identities I put together based on common (misspelled) words. I drew the letters in the wordmark by hand, with adjustments in Illustrator. The animations were prototyped in Figma before being fleshed out in After Effects.

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Detail from the Froot Punch brand summary showing the red and yellow colors

Froot Punch

2023 / Branding

Quick brand exercise #2, for a fictional dessert takeout restaurant. This was driven mostly by the juicy red-yellow color combination and took off from there.

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Three beer labels from Botanikal mocked up on bottles: Dandy-Lager, Florale 2023, and Seeded Rye

Botanikal Brewing

2023 / Branding

Quick brand exercise #3, inspired by the craft beer industry's copious merch design opportunities — and a book of vintage type.

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Detail from a photograph showing Diesel Fried Chicken reflected in a puddle

Four views on a drive

2015 / Photography

Four views on the drive from El Paso to Marfa, Texas.

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A stop sign edited to read “Oops, Sorry”

Street signs, edited

2023 / Photography, retouching

The first two entries in a possibly continuing series featuring street signs in my area, convincingly edited with new messages.

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A soft, six-sided die made with canvas

Embroidered die

2023 / fiber art

My first attempt at a soft sculpture: a simple six-inch, six-sided die with carefully embroidered pips and filled with lentils for some heft. Banned in Vegas.

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Abstract animation with petal-like structures flashing around a spinning Earth

Animated sketch

2021 / gif

This started as some doodles in a sketchbook before I scanned those drawings and threw them in Photoshop for a quick animation.

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