Graphic design for award-winning DIY Nano app for iPhone and iPad. The DIY Nano App was produced in collaboration with the NISE Network to give kids and families an opportunity to explore nanoscience concepts at home through hands-on activities and videos.

"Refreshingly high production value, especially for a free app." 
 - Wired App Guide

"This ingenious, uncluttered, easy-to-use app can help kids understand how tiny things act differently."
 - Common Sense Media

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Parent's Choice Award
Silver Honor

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The Sciencenter is a hands-on science museum in Ithaca, NY. They needed an updated design for their annual report, which they had previously been handling in-house. They wanted something more professional and polished. I created a new design and provided guidance and art direction for photo shoots so that we were able to produce high-quality assets to work with.

Nano is a 400-square-foot interactive exhibition that engages museum audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Hands-on exhibits present the basics of nanoscience, introduce real world applications, and explore the societal and ethical implications of this new technology. Seventy copies of Nano are being fabricated and distributed to museums across the United States where it will ultimately engage tens of millions of people.

I worked with the exhibits team at the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Sciencenter in Ithaca to design all of the graphics as well as design and prototype the hands-on interactives. Many of the graphics feature my own photography. Knowing Nano would be installed in many different locations and types of museums, we developed a design that was flexible and adaptable for different venues. The graphics are clean, concise, simple and attractive, allowing Nano to fit in seamlessly with other exhibits at a variety of different institutions targeted to different age groups, and with varied graphic treatments and color schemes.

A new DIY app about the Science of the Sun required an engaging collection of photos to show in detail 13 hands-on activities that children can participate in to learn about the sun and its properties in a fun and comprehensive way. As the photographer for this project, I worked closely with the models to capture their enthusiasm and provided colorful prop styling to allow the photos to fit in with the overall design scheme of the app.

This printed, kid-friendly magazine about nanoscience is designed especially for middle school students. Nanooze was started in 2007 distributed and is distributed for free to classrooms across the country with a circulation of about 100,000. In addition, two regional issues focus on nanotechnology in the state of West Virginia, and have been distributed to every eighth-grader in the state.

Each issue of Nanooze features some of my own photography and illustrations that help convey the complex concepts of nanotechnology. I work closely with the editor to create a high-quality publication that is fun and unintimidating. Teachers love the product and couldn’t be more thrilled to have the free resource in their classrooms.

Nanooze is an outreach project of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and Cornell University.

I worked with a development team at the Lawrence Hall of Science to develop sensible, friendly user interfaces and graphics for several online interactive experiences that explore science concepts. 

FOSS is a research-based science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. The program is used in classrooms across the US.

This online science interactive explores the different levels of complexity in living organisms. I created the user interface and the illustrations. This interactive is part of the FOSS program.

FOSS is a research-based science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. The program is used in classrooms across the US.

I designed at set of posters and ad templates that museums can use to help promote their Nano Mini-Exhibition.

This set of posters was created in collaboration with the NISE Network. Primarily used in a science museum or research center setting, they are designed to encourage visitors to consider the complex societal and ethical questions that come up as new technologies are developed and disseminated. I designed the posters and shot the photos.