Murals & Public Art

Henking Elementary School, Connect, Discover, Explore & Relax (2026)
53rd & 55th St Viaduct, Time Takes So Take Time (2025)
Homewood Brewing Company, Time is a Canvas (2024)
Private Residence, Less is More / More or Less (2024)
Facility Foundation, Trust Yourself (2024)
Houston Botanic Garden, Pride & Promise: Christmas Tree (2022)
City of Chicago, 20th Anniversary 9/11 Memorial (2021)
Western Illinois Museum, What You Feed Will Grow (2021 – Present)
The Railyards Boulder, Bring Unity to Our Community (2021 – Present)
The Railyards Boulder, Make Our Neighborhood Neighborly (2021 – Present)
The Railyards Boulder, Be Human for All of Humanity (2021 – Present)
Chicago Botanic Garden, Pride & Promise: Christmas Tree (2020 ­– 2021)
Navy Pier, Postcards to Chicago (2020 – Present)
Weber Shandwick, The Future Is Not What It Used to Be (2020 – Present)
Weber Shandwick, The Best Ideas Travel (2019 – Present)
Weber Shandwick, Make Things That Change Things (2019 – Present)
Threadless, Time Changes Everything (2019 – Present)
Soho House Chicago, Make & Take Time (2019)
Green Street Lofts, Free is Something to Believe In (2018 – 2022)
Design Museum, Ride Like the Wind (2018 – 2019)
Lincoln Square Residence, Keep Moving (2018 – Present)
Cards Against Humanity, Less is More (2018 – Present)
Gary Indiana, Things Take A Long Time (2018 – Present)

Boards & Committees

Alt Space Chicago, Auxiliary Board Member (2025 – Present)
Mobile Makers, Design Summit Advisory Committee (2023 – 2024)
City of Chicago, Individual Artists Program, Jury Member (2021 – 2023)
City of Chicago, Public Art, Light and Infrastructure, Jury Member (2021)
City of Chicago, Cultural Advisory Council (2020 – 2025)
The New Bauhaus Film, City as Lab, Advisory Committee (2019)
Designing a Better Chicago, Advisory Committee (2019 – Present)
ASU, Design Excellence, Jury Member (2016)
The Arts Club of Chicago, Membership Committee (2016 – Present)
AIGA National, Communicating Design’s Influence, Committee (2014)
AIGA Chicago, Centennial Committee Lead (2013 – 2014)
Society of Typographic Arts, Archive Advisor (2013 – 2014)
AIGA Chicago, Design for Good Committee (2013)
Design Museum, Board of Directors (2012 – Present)
Design Museum, Board of Directors (Chair) (2012 – 2019)

Teaching & Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Design Thinking & Design Issues (2014 – 2019)
ASU, Advanced Media & Motion Graphics + Interaction Design (2009 – 2010)
ASU, Bachelor of Science in Design, Cum Laude (2004 – 2009)

Honors & Awards

Newcity, Design 50: Who Shapes Chicago (2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015)
Society of Typographic Arts, 100 (2019, 2018)
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Colonel (2017 – Present)
The Newberry Library, Tanner Woodford Papers (2015 – Present)
Design Museum of Chicago, Institutional Archive & Collection (2014 – Present)
Chicago Design Archive, Digital & Physical Archive (2012 – Present)
USAID CIDI, Design Competition, 1st Place Print, 2nd Place Motion (2009)
US Patent Office, Multiple, Independent UI’s For a Single A/V Device (2008)

Exhibitions

Harold Washington Library Center, In the Margins of Time (2026 – 2027)
Artist Replete, Wordplay (2024)
Design Museum, Free & Open Chicago (2022 – 2023)
You Are Beautiful, Kind Words (2022–2023)
Design Museum, The Correct Time (2022)
Chicago Bulls × All Star Press, The Art of the Game (2022)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Great Ideas of Humanity (2022)
Evanston Art Center, 2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial (2021)
Bergart Pop-up Exhibition, Art Listing (2020)
Anderson University, Great Ideas of Humanity (2019)
The Fields, This Is All Too Fragile, solo exhibition (2019)
Blackbox Gallery, Nosalgia… ish: Redirected Thrift Store Finds (2019)
Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago Characters, Merchandise Mart (2018)
Tock, The Shape of Things to Come (2018 ­­– 2023)
Design Museum, Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container (2018)
Lost Arts, Great Ideas of Humanity at Lost Arts (2017)
Business of Design Week, Hong Kong, Great Ideas of Humanity (2016)
50,000feet, Great Ideas of Humanity (2016)
Typeforce 7, Iterative.Work: Volume 1.2 (2016)
Threadless, The Shape of Things to Come (2015 ­­– 2018)
Block 37 Pedway, The Shape of Things to Come (2015)
Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, A Clock for Identity Designers (2014)
University of Michigan, Visualizing Data: A Clock for Identity Designers (2014)
Phoenix Design Week, Phoenix Poster Design Project (2009)
ASU, Step Gallery, Photography Showcase (2007)
Wet Paint Artist Supply, Presented by Adult Swim (2007)

Talks & Workshops

Chicago Humanities, Interview: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (2026)
Society of Typographic Arts, Transitions Conference (2026)
Dett Elementary School, Artist in Residence (2023 – 2024)
NeoCon: Positivity in Public Art with You Are Beautiful (2023)
Chicago Public Schools: Risograph Workshop (2023)
Institute of Design, Moderator: 85 Years of Making the Future (2022)
Evanston Art Center, Keynote: Designing a New Museum (2021)
Michigan State University, Visiting Scholar Lecture (2021)
ASU, Keynote: VCD Poster Show (2021)
Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Keynote: Meet the Makers (2020)
Central Elementary School, Artist in Residence (2020)
Loyola New Orleans Design Department, Talk: Designing a New Museum (2019)
The Newberry Library, Workshop: Chicago Style, Typography and the City (2018)
Adler Planetarium, Lecture: Artefacts XXIII, Relevance of Collections (2018)
Bend Design Conference, Talk: Here’s to Adventure, Designing a New Museum (2017)
Bend Design Conference, Workshop: Longhand, Writing Letters (2017)
SAIC, Talk: Design Thinking for Social Change (2016)
Lake FX Expo + Summit Panel Moderator: Working with Sponsors (2016)
EXPO Chicago/Dialogues, Panel: Design Criticism & Its Discourse (2015)
SEGD Conference, Moderator (2015)

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