5280 Home magazine is the premier home and interiors magazine for Denver and Colorado. Tips and trends, neighborhood guides, real estate market, 5280 Home has it all.

In August 2020 a derecho swept through east-central Iowa decimating more than 65 percent of the area’s tree canopy. 100,000 trees—lining streets, shade for yards and parks, 100 year old oaks—snapped, splintered, and broke. It’s difficult to explain the complete impact of that damage—environmentally, economically, communally, even psychologically. Yet, after the sirens stopped and the dust settled, the city of Cedar Rapids began the important work of regrowing.

Thus, the ReLeaf Cedar Rapids Plan, the detailed business of replacing all those lost trees. The ReLeaf Plan is less a plan (OK, yes, it contains detailed designs for thirty-eight parks and the planting of over 42,000 trees, but hang on) and more a rallying force, a point upon which to pivot, guiding the city, its institutions, non-profit organizations, landowners, and homeowners in replanting their urban canopy.

ColoradoBiz is a regional business magazine focusing on issues, people, business, and management trends that influence economic conditions in Colorado and the West.

To remain at the forefront of these trends ColoradoBiz Magazine was designed with a smart sense of space, an energetic color palette, and littered with photography and artwork that amplified feature and department messages and ideas. This gives the magazine an overall sense of intelligence, that this is the go-to magazine for all-things business in Colorado.

John Deere fashions iteslf as an industry leader, not just in farm equipment but also developing technology. “Tech at Work” collects the stories of farmers who use technology to maximize profit potential on each acre of their farm, offering a glimpse of John Deere products that go beyond the tractor — from basic precision solutions to John Deere’s robust Operations Center — helping farmers do more in less time.

It’s not a book for kids. Not really. But more a book for kids and parents with activities and chapters on allowances, earning money, smart shopping, etc. Raising Financially Aware Kids not only helps kids tell the difference between needs and wants (and that money isn’t everything) but also helps incorporate “family values” into money practices.

With such a delicate subject (money + kids) a light yet sophisticated touch was applied through the use of straightforward type intermingled with photography and whimsical illustrations.

Professional Solutions Insurance Services specializes in coverage for commercial businesses. Think: data loss, product protection, and auto coverage. Working in an over saturated field of look-alikes and status quo companies Professional Solutions wanted to stand out.

Since they specialize in commercial insurance coverage, the new collateral would work hard to reflect the hard working individuals Professional Solutions was looking to represent. Their previous collateral was flat and uninspiring. The current iteration uses black and white photography coupled with effective, powerful messages to drive home Professional Solutions’s distinction that having the right insurance can have a big impact on your business.

Encampus is an insurance agency that provides coverage for colleges and universities in the upper Midwest. They support these institutions with property, casualty, and liability coverage tailored to fit each college’s unique need.

Starting from scratch, a logo was created along with a brand look and feel, then applied across a variety of collateral pieces—stationary, brochures, website, and folder. The brand is meant to evoke a sense of security and be relevant to the unique industry.

McPherson is a small liberal arts college located in central Kansas. Their need was for a redesign of their bi-monthly magazine, My MC Magazine. Previous editions were flat in tone and lacked a certain energy required to connect with college age students. The new design was a refresh—a revolution and restart—working to excite and spark students into acting on many of the opportunities that McPherson College has on campus.

One of the largest producers of ductile iron pipe, valves, hydrants, and waterworks fittings, McWane is an infrastructure leader in North America. With a philosophy of manufacturing products that are lasting and sustainable, McWane sees itself as a beacon of excellence in service and quality as well as a steward to the environment.

The scope of work for McWane is vast. Some included trade show booth design and skinning for their upcoming Ap, the Pocket Engineer, that included panels, banners, posters, handouts, a looping video, as well as initiatives on giveaways that would drive traffic to the booth.

Modern McWane is a quarterly newsletter that delivers company news to the Ductile division of McWane.

McWane Magazine is McWane’s annual editorial piece that communicates, to all corporate employees, McWane’s news for the year, upcoming initiatives, and stories related to the industry.

Helena Acre is a comprehensive program that uses agronomic research and crop monitoring to develop a total product system for your farm, your field, and your acre. For Helena’s trade show booth at the Commodity Classic in San Antonio, the focus of the message was put on the grower’s and their success stories and how Helena Acre best serves them in yield, productivity, and return on investment.

Materials included a newsletter that was sent out a month before the show to stir interest which included individual stories and bios on growers that work with the Helena Acre program throughout the growing season. Panels and banners were designed for the trade show booth as well as a five minute video that ran on a loop.

These are logos I’ve done in the past. Some saw the light of day, some are just so good they had to be posted.

With all the factors impacting a farmer’s success—technology, equipment, seed science and selection, and so on—it helps to have a magazine in your corner. Successful Farming magazine has been serving farmers’ needs by supplying information to make money, save time, and grow their satisfaction in the farming business.

Over the years I have created several layouts for Successful Farming, operating within the caveat that my designs catch the eye, are functional, and add an element of understanding to the story that delights and entertains.

This redesign of Traditional Home magazine’s department pages was to be a hard working evolution and refresh. Working closely with Traditional Home’s Creative Director, I acted on their mandates of streamlining the page’s grid, adding effective white space to a layout crowded with text and images, and updating the design with a fresher color palette and text treatments.

Tractors, tractors, tractors, and more tractors.

A complete redesign of Successful Farming’s specialty publication, Ageless Iron Almanac.

Ageless Iron is read by people who collect, restore, repair, refurbish, and love old farm equipment—they are the agricultural equivalent of hot rod restorers and motor heads. The content ranges from profiles of recently restored tractors to tips and tricks that guide you through your own restoration. The magazine is intended for serious collectors and casual fans alike.