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Happy Pride Month to the artists and amazing people who inspire me! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This project didn’t even feel like a project. It felt like a way to give back to a community that welcomed me and so many others, fostered amazing relationships and friendships, and continues to grow for 20 years. And here’s to so many more!

creates a welcoming space for members of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to become rowers.

I knew nothing about the sport and grew into a medal winning rower with long-lasting friendships from this amazing crew. So when they reached out, asking for a design for a 20th Anniversary logo, it felt like I never left. Like a rowing uni, it was warm, familiar, and snug in all the right places.

This logo breaks the 20 into shapes, symbols, and colors at the core of Chicago Rowing Union. Everything is washed in the blue, white, and gray of their uniforms and oars. Angled colors cut along the 2 to match their oars. A Chicago star interspersed with the colors of the trans flag, blend city and identity. With a pride rainbow being the prominent pop of color, rising over the logo.

Thanks Chicago Rowing Union for the opportunity, the unforgettable years, and cheers to many many more! 🏳️‍🌈🚣🏳️‍⚧️

Design a beer label once: achievement unlocked
Design a beer label TWICE: I don’t even know, I’m still blown away.

It’s always been a bucket list goal ever since I started CG INK and I’m forever grateful to for the opportunity

When you’re a graphic designer, you’re hungry (or thirsty in this case?) for work. And there are some clients whose values may not align with yours and you have to wrestle with that. But Sketchbook Brewery is an amazing team to be a part of. Their taprooms are community centers and they give back to Skokie, Evanston, and surrounding neighborhoods that they call home. AND they’re strongly anti ICE, which makes this particular label all the more special. They partnered with local organizations that support immigration efforts and uplift immigrant communities, which is something I not only get behind, but proudly raise a glass to! 🍻

Look for 2026 FREEDOMISH at your local bar or beer shop, enjoy the design, and drink a toast to breweries doing good in a time of so much awfulness

This one is personal for me 💚

I’ve had the honor of designing and printing the musical programs for my kids’ school play every year (and even years they weren’t in the show)

It’s been so inspiring to see the students’ and teachers’ hard work and artistic talent to create every show. Break a leg Frozen Jr. cast a crew!

Round two with 🍻

Designing a craft beer label has been on my bucket list since I started CG Ink. Getting to do it once felt unreal. Getting the call to do it again? That’s the kind of thing that makes you sit back in your chair for a second.

This one’s for their yearly FREEDOMISH beer. Currently brewing, but here’s a peek at where it’s at so far.