Rural Futures Deck
A card deck for generative, collective imagining, brimming with poetic inspiration.
Co-created with Hi-Vis Agency and Springboard for the Arts’ Rural Regenerator Fellows
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Tokyo Seeds
At a design residency with Japan’s national train company, I researched and pitched community engagement strategy to the company’s culture leaders.
Yes, it was a little bit like MTV’s The Real World for designers.
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End of Life Times
A community newspaper exploring death and dying, in an effort to live more fully.
For Reimagine.
Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson
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Dropbox Culture Kits
Dropbox.Design’s Culture Kits are open-source resources for the design community. I worked with the Brand team, writers, and researchers to prototype and develop engaging tools for learning and growth.
Personal Voice Workbook: for introspection, exploration, and finding your voice.
Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit: a multi-faceted tool for taking steps towards more diverse and inclusive culture at work and beyond.
Team Values Toolkit: for teams to align and establish common values.
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Research at Dropbox
As the dedicated designer for the Research Team at Dropbox, I helped user researchers transform their complex findings into clear, narrative artifacts for product teams.
I also created a tangible library of engaging tools and materials for co-creative user research workshops.
Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson
Virtual First User Journeys
Day-in-the-life maps to help employees understand their new relationships to the office.
Future-of-Work Consulting
Creative consulting on ways to nurture community and build culture for newly decentralized teams.
Illustration by Rob Moss Wilson
Company Culture Workshop
An engaging, social, and playful workshop for every single employee of a large biotech corporation, to help drive meaningful adoption of new company-culture tenets.
With IDEO
21st Century Design Skills
A mainstage presentation on the Future of Work, for Dropbox Staff Researcher Jennifer Brook.
Presented at the the Awwwards Conference
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Open Engagement
Design direction for six iterations of an annual art conference, all with an eye for flexible, living identity systems and DIY modes of production.
Complete design archive coming soon!
Jennifer Brook Identity
Visual identity and website for a brilliant multi-hyphenate design practitioner.
With Taryn Cowart and Sarah Baugh
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Presentations
Yes, I love making decks. The more complex the information, the better. The bigger the ideas, the better!
Sample slides from pitch decks, thought leadership, workshops, toolkits, All-Hands, visioning, and funding rounds.
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Lookbook
Playful visual projects for artists, musicians, creative businesses, and cultural organizations.
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Place Talks
A lecture series about location, with the Prelinger Library in San Francisco.
Co-hosted with Charlie Macquarie
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Paper Road
A multi-media research project, exploring personal and collective California narratives.
With Publication Studio San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts.
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Green River Publications
Community publications made with residents of a small, rural, desert town in Utah.
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An Incomplete History
A public history project about community publishing, presented at the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History in Inverness, California.
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Common Source
A public library installation and participatory event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, exploring the public commons.
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Plant Family
A multi-media narrative project weaving tendrils of personal loss, family history, and a changing San Francisco.
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Wild Cards
A tool for creativity, a game with no rules. For getting un-stuck and finding unexpected connections.
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Bumper Sticker Fundraising Machine
Since 2020, your sticker purchases have raised more than $17,000 for grassroots organizations working in community to repair the damages of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.
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PILES
A Substack mostly about art, design, community, and place.
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Finding Win Ng
An article for The Believer magazine about the late San Francisco artist Win Ng—whose work is beloved, but whose life remains quite mysterious despite his accolades.
For the December 2024 Art Issue.
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The Relation Between Things in a Continuum
An essay about growing up in San Francisco. Politics, power, nostalgia, myth, hyperobjects, and their interlocking tendrils.
Published by Flower Press, out of print
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Codes and Questions for Anyone Who Goes Anywhere
An essay about small towns, tourism, West Marin, and how to be a good visitor.
Published by Office of Virtue
Read it here
CYCLES
An essay about grief and the ocean.
Performed at the Headlands Center for the Arts and CENTER. Collaboration with Daniel Melo on guitar
Read it here
See a full list of articles and publications here in my CV
I approach design holistically, engaging creative strategy, research, co-creation, and visual design. I believe design is a social practice.
In my art practice, I create conditions for participation and collective experience.
When I write, I explore overlapping tendrils of place, identity, community, and inclusion.
Here’s my CV if you want to read a big list of projects I’ve done
Let’s work together!
I’m always interested in new relationships with agencies, studios, and in-house design teams. I offer holistic design support to small businesses and cultural organizations.
Contract
I’m often available for ongoing or project-based contract positions.
Full-time
I’m open to a full-time position with a purpose-driven organization; if it’s the right fit, it’s the right fit!
If you’re looking for a thoughtful, experienced, hard-working designer (and a fun, chill co-worker), I’d love to hear from you.
COMMUNICATIONGraphic design for communication artifacts: print, digital, social, (etc.) with special attention to publications and presentations. I am *an expert* in Keynote and InDesign.
LEARNING EXPERIENCES Iterative prototyping and development of toolkits and workshops, with a spotlight on spontaneity, play, introspection, and generative experiences.
RESEARCH: Complexity
NARRATIVE / CONTENT Strategy and design to help you decide WHAT you want to say and HOW you want to say it! Give me your wall of text and folder of images, and I’ll help you organize your thoughts.
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Dropbox
Figma
Wealthfront
Apple
MADO
findhelp.org
Compass
The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School
The Institute of Ecotechnics
Greenpeace
Patagonia
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bolinas Art Museum
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Headlands Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
For Freedoms
Reimagine End of Life
Point Reyes Books
TART Vinegar
Handley Cellars
Floodplain Projects
Greenhorns
Fibershed
Design Instructor
School of Art + Design, Portland State University
Design Director
Open Engagement Conference
Art Director
Portland Mercury
Graduate Fellow and Affiliate Artist
Headlands Center for the Arts
Resident Artist
Prelinger Library
Designer in Residence
East Japan Railway