Portfolio

A small taste of the work I'm most proud of: short film documentary, interview series, skit series, twelve magazine issues, and assorted design projects.

Project 1
Deaf Community: New England
(short documentary)

RESEARCHER / INTERVIEWER / ASSISTANT EDITOR

One of my favorite projects. Six states, 50+ interviews, countless stories.

View the short documentary.

Project 2
Deaf Community: SoCal Stories
(interview series)

RESEARCHER / INTERVIEWER / ASSISTANT EDITOR

Being from California, this project was personal and a chance to dig into the stories of immigration and Deaf Hollywood in my home state.

View the interview series.

Project 3
Which VRS Caller Are You?
(short video series)

CREATIVE DIRECTOR / PROJECT LEAD / EDITOR

I took full creative control and went all in: 8 video skits, an Instagram filter, and a webpage of assorted VRS caller personas. One of Convo’s most successful campaigns, and easily the most fun.

View the playlist.

A fanned-out display of colorful NADmag magazine covers, showing several of the twelve print issues

Project 4
NADmag
(12 print issues)

VISUAL DESIGNER

My first job out of college: National Association of the Deaf brought me in to revamp their brand from the ground up, and the bimonthly NADmag became my favorite outlet for it: twelve issues of layout and publication design.

Project 5
National Deaf Therapy
(online commercial)

DIRECTOR

My first project directing, and the one that convinced me I wanted to keep working with actors and getting their best work out of them.

View the online commercial.

Project 6
A Week in the Life of Ian Sanborn
(online commercial)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / SCREENWRITER

The first time I wrote a video script from scratch and assisted with directing, and I'm proud of how it turned out.

View the online commercial.


Creative Work
Assorted Design Projects

VISUAL DESIGN / ILLUSTRATION

TrueBiz ASL: A logo built to show the vibrancy of ASL right in the hands themselves.

DeafScoop: A clean, crisp design meant to feel like online chatter in visual form.

National Association of the Deaf: A postcard promoting NAD's two conferences that year, pairing state silhouettes with the NAD logo and a color palette that keeps both events distinct yet part of one story.

“It Gets Better” poster: I created this poster for the “It Gets Better” campaign for a client who wanted to surprise her brother with it.

Logo for TrueBiz ASL, the wordmark paired with two illustrated hands in a colorful patchwork pattern

Logo for True Biz ASL, an online ASL course

Logo for DeafScoop, the wordmark in blue and gray with decorative quotation mark graphics behind it

Logo for Deaf Scoop, a news aggregator site

Postcard for National Association of the Deaf's 2015-2016 conferences, a geometric color-block design with state outlines for Alabama and Arizona and the conference dates

Postcard for National Association of the Deaf’s 2015-2016 conferences

Spread of pages from the National Association of the Deaf's 2013 annual report, showing the cover, infographics, and photos laid out across nine pages
Poster for the 'It Gets Better' campaign, a blue-toned illustration of a man signing 'better' with bold text reading 'It Gets Better in American Sign Language

2013 Annual Report for National Association of the Deaf

Poster design for the “It Gets Better” campaign