Before machines talked, the work did.

Direct mail campaigns for the Spice House

Seasonal catalogues and mailers promoting essential and rare spice varietals and proprietary rubs and blends.

Infographic design · U.S. Cellular

Turning philanthropy reports, survey results, and advocacy into data stories people actually read.

VH1 · Broadcast design for “Behind the Music”

Received Silver award from Broadcast Designers Association.

Showtime Next · Broadcast design · 2001

Channel identity for Showtime's Next. The theme, “Cute Fluffy Animals,” sent plush stand-ins out into the real world — and took me to Hong Kong and Las Vegas to shoot the footage.

Other cuts

Packaging, editorial, type, broadcast, journey mapping, art, presentations, and environmental graphics. Different cuts of the same animal.

Mark Shale · Seasonal catalogue design, direct mail.

CocoTea · CD packaging · Motown Records. Art direction, design & typeface design.

COVID triage journey map · Healthcare experience design under pressure.

Divine · Font design · My handwriting, turned into a typeface with the late Frank Heine. Available through [T-26] Digital Type Foundry.

Leadership conference presentation · 2026 · Designed for the EVP & Chief Strategy and Growth Officer — presenting the year's strategic imperatives to VP-and-above market leaders.

Leadership conference presentation · 2026 · Designed for the President & CEO, addressing market leaders including the C-suite.

“Daily Dose of Truth” · Broadcast design for anti-smoking campaign.

Leica Biosystems · Product brochure.

U.S. Cellular · Internal comms · 2019 · GIF animation used in email to associates celebrating the year's charitable giving.

Kaiju · Font design · A modernization of woodblock type used for posters in the early 1900s.

Spex · Website · 2008 · Art direction for the eyewear retailer's site, as Marketing Director and Designer.

INTERNAL TALK

VP Design Review: Conversation Design

Introducing conversation design as a discipline to our leadership group: what it is, why it isn't just copywriting, and how research, product, engineering, and legal each use the standards. This is where the vocabulary that later became the design system standards was first road-tested.

WORKSHOP SERIES

Storytelling for Results

A workshop series on structuring narratives that move stakeholders. Our first participants included product managers, with the goal of improving product storytelling for the broader organization.

WEBINAR RECAP

Community of Practice: UX Storytelling

A webinar recap on UX storytelling, distilled and re-presented for the team: how narrative structure turns research into something stakeholders remember, and act on.

WEBINAR RECAP

Community of Practice: Human-Centered AI

A webinar recap on human-centered AI, distilled and re-presented for the team: keeping people — their context, trust, and judgment — at the center as AI enters the design process.

TEAM PRESENTATION

Conversation Design: The Experience

A presentation to our Experience and Research Design team on the conversation design experience: how the practice works day to day, and what it takes to design a conversation people trust.

THE SIDE HUSTLE · AFTER HOURS

F2 · Glass design collaboration · 2001–2008

What began as an after-hours obsession grew into a second practice. A glassblowing collaboration with my late husband Peter, who taught me the craft. Together we designed and made lighting, sculpture, and vessels — earning press, selling to collectors, and reaching retailers in Chicago, LA, and Houston — from F2 Lab, the gallery we built in Chicago's West Loop as part of the city's arts community.