I lead organizations from ambition to future state—defining distinctive creative vision and guiding teams to build resonant brands at scale. Nice to see you.
Selected work from 20 years of shaping brands, narrative strategy, campaigns, visual identity and design systems for cultural orgs and corporations.
PORTFOLIO
I am a design-forward creative leader dedicated to cultivating conversation, shared vision, and rigorous practice. I lead teams in building the foundations and expressions that shape brands.
I help people see what others don’t.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIPINFO
Currently Brand Creative Director for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. I lead a team of brand creatives, UX designers and copywriters, alongside agency partnerships.
In three years I've built the company's first centralized creative function — from five people to twenty-five — extending Brand's reach and influence across every part of the business.
I founded and ran EA Projects from 2008–2023, a design practice rooted in cultural production.
The studio partnered with clients including Princeton Architectural Press, Yale University, the Environmental Defense Fund, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Audi, Urban Outfitters, Clinique, and others. Working across creative and editorial direction, we designed highly crafted brands, books, exhibition catalogues, visual identities, and digital experiences.
See select works from the EA Projects archive here.
WORKSHOPSWWTAWWTAL:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Looking*
Or Language.
Or Learning.
Or Listening.
— is an ongoing workshop format.
WWTAWWTAL workshops guide teams, stakeholders, executives and clients to articulate vision, develop strategy, navigate challenges, and imagine what’s possible.
Despite an emphasis on the more visual aspects within our discipline, I’ve observed that creative function and dysfunction are often rooted in language, subjectivity, and the absence of practice. By learning to use our voices both individually and collectively, we are better able to share and respond to ideas.
Elevating creative and design literacy sit at the heart of WWTAWWTAL. Actively participating in building a common language helps us connect, understand other perspectives, and collectively define problems worth solving.
I have designed and facilitated sessions for the last decade for organizations and schools, including Columbia University, The School of Visual Arts, The Wall Street Journal, Environmental Defense Fund, and for various clients in art and architecture.
*The name WWTAWWTAL is inspired in Haruki Murakami’s book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — basically a meditation on noticing.
MY TEAMS CALL ME
Creative director. Design leader. Culture builder.
PRESS & RECOGNITIONAIGA
The Clios
Creative Review
D&AD
Digiday
The Drum
International News Media Awards (INMA)
The New York Times
Print
Dwell Magazine
INDUSTRIESArt
Architecture
Automotive
Education
Environment
Fashion
Healthcare
Media
Publishing
Real Estate Development
Retail
Sustainability
CLIENTS & ORGS/ Architecture & Design
Van Alen Institute for Public Architecture
Princeton Architectural Press
Studio Gang Architects, Chicago
CDR Studio, New York
Donald Kaufman Color, New York
SCAPE, New York
/ Corporations
Audi
Barron’s
Dow Jones
MarketWatch
Nokia
The Wall Street Journal
Urban Outfitters
/ Cultural & Academic Institutions
The Getty Museum
The Bronx Museum for the Arts
The National Gallery of Art
Columbia University
Princeton University
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
University of Florida, School of Art & Art History
Yale University Press
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Kunstraum Dornbirn Gallery, Austria
UCLA
Cal Tech
/ Public Institutions & Non-Profit Orgs
Environmental Defense Fund
City of Chicago
Ford Calumet Environmental Center, Chicago
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
select projects
