I designed and illustrated this map for a new Christmas light event that will be held annually at Windrush Botanic Gardens in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
For this project, I challenged myself to design and draw extremely high-quality illustrations that plainly displayed necessary identification features without sacrificing beauty and composition. The project started as five separate compositions that each featured one species. I then designed a new background where each illustration could be combined into a single composition that would serve as a more comprehensive identification tool.
The administration at Burden was sufficiently pleased with the Louisiana Lights illustration that I created for them (see above) that they asked me to create a summertime, daylight version of the Louisiana Lights map that would showcase the entirety of Windrush Gardens.
This required me to learn the details of forest carbon sequestration in Louisiana from a written report on the topic, and then create an infographic that featured a general introduction to the topic alongside several figures and graphics that I had to create based on statistics featured in the original report. This project was a fun challenge since it required the combination of such a variety of skills.
Here are some examples of recent graphic design projects. On projects like this, I sometimes have only a few requirements around which to build a design, allowing me to focus more purely on aesthetics. But more often, I have to find a way to clearly communicate a complicated list of requirements that could easily result in a convoluted, ineffective image if not done carefully. That is typically the case when working with scientific and technical subject matter, as the requirements often include various and granular information. One particularly complicated example that I've shown here was chosen as the cover art for an ACS scientific journal entitled Energy & Fuels.
