A good year

Rounded out with an art show in my Kenilworth neighborhood. Small sketches.

Mail series for a bank's female clientele

One of a string of mailers--this one falling at Thanksgiving--that reminds women customers that Carolina Alliance Bank holds them in "high consciousness" and wants, sincerely, to maintain both rapport and dialogue. Thanks to partner Connie Aridas for bringing me into this ongoing project.

A new site for a Knoxville fulfillment house that, among other things, handled over a hundred million sweepstakes entries this year alone.

I appreciate the chance to work with Mark Bastin of JDM Strategies (Asheville) and Wade Ewers, president of Ritway (Knoxville). It's a rare opportunity to work on a site this complex (about 40 main sections) and with a group of people of such genuine integrity, good spirit and warmth.

The Crossnore School: Weaving a tale of lives changed and miracles in the offing.

A wonderful opportunity to re-position this historical and profoundly successful place as both an esteemed boarding school and a healing, caring environment for children in need. I am in deep gratitude to Dr. Phyllis Crain for the amazing chance to tell this story well and my very aware, very conscious partner, Connie Aridas, who brings a sensitive hand to the design of pieces aimed at donors and stakeholders as well as parents and educational consultants.

An illustrated history of HandMade in America's artfully collaborative Small Town Program

A composite of 15 years of impassioned work, often triggered and inspired by HandMade leadership, brought to life by countless volunteers in some of Western North Carolina's smallest places. An essay (falling across twenty pages) that practically unfolds on its own because of the tremendous energy and devotion of participants, many of whom I interviewed over a two-month period to form the nucleus of this textured story. Connie Aridas orchestrated the design, as she said, "keeping the flavor of small towns" visually throughout, and Judi Jetson at HandMade provided the initiative and support. Many thanks to everyone who read this piece, spoke with me in person or by phone, and helped render a process and a history that I believe can and will be helpful to small towns basically anywhere in the world.

A new mark for Western North Carolina Alliance, the grand pere of conservancy organizations in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains

Many thanks to Julie Mayfield, executive director, for the opportunity, and to partner Connie Aridas for her great perseverance over the nine months it took to give birth. There is an official birthing document, a stylebook, which we put together to help the organization in spot color applications and in usage contexts from newsletters to web postings to signage to stationery.