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I specialize in music packaging and promotional material, but I also do print and packaging work for small businesses, couples, and individuals. Whether you’re a performer, a maker, or creating a special event, I love making your vision material.
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Whether you prefer a dynamic or static site, my goal is to create a flexible, responsive home for your work. I also give clients the tools and confidence to update and maintain their own sites, including navigating hosting services and domain registrars.
If you’re looking for digital assets for social media, let’s talk about what kind of imagery and messaging will give your online presence some extra oomph.
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I make clean, unique logos that scale well across different devices. Let me know if you want to put your stamp on the world!
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I have experience with most major mapping software, and whether your project is data-driven or a representation of a personally important place, my skills can help bring it to life.
Album Art
Cartography
GPS Infrastructure: displacement and reorientation
GPS – the dominant GNSS (global navigational satellite system) developed by the US military over the latter half of the 20th century, requires not just satellites in orbit or hand-held receivers; it also depends on a lot of far-flung on-the-ground infrastructure. In 2023-2024 I was exploring the history of forced displacements and changing narratives around place on three such installations: Kwajalein (Marshall Islands), Pittuffik (Greenland), and Diego Garcia (the British Indian Ocean Territory ruled by international courts to have been separated illegally from Mauritius). In recent years there have been major developments at each of these sites. Here is a sampling of 2024 map plates from the Diego Garcia case study (click to enlarge):
Fort Ordnance: military environmental legacies
As a young person I made many visits to Fort Ord, a US military base built atop a liquefaction zone along a beautiful stretch of central California coastline. Closed during the BRAC (base realignment and closure) period at the end of the cold war, much of Fort Ord fell into the kind of ruin beloved by teenagers and photographers. The abandonment and delayed, incomplete redevelopment of the base followed naturally from decades of soil and groundwater contamination (from gasoline, carbonless copy paper, and heavy metal munitions) and the still-present danger of unexploded ordnance. I used publicly available data to map the story of Fort Ord’s land use and re-use.
Little Music Maps
The bay area’s covid careful community organizes shows with a focus on clean air and accessibility. The Grove Exchange is one in a series of events set outside and promoted mainly through word of mouth and the great old-fashioned – let’s say classic – practice of flyering. Reverse-page maps help orient attendees to the precise location of these somewhat secret shows, and my goal with these maps is to simplify the visual language while still echoing the whimsy of the front-page illustrations meant to coax people into an unusual venues.
