The Washington Post

Design work while serving as a news designer from 2021-2022 focusing on print and digital for the national desk, and later on in 2023 as a Special Sections Visual Editor focusing on large, themed digital packages across desks.

The New Space Age

Led the creative strategy as the Special Sections Visual Editor for The New Space Age, a series on the resurgence of space travel and exploration. For this project, I served as the project editor, designer for print and digital, art director for internal and external illustrators, photo editor and team lead across multiple departments like graphics, video, social and promotion. As the editor, I also pitched and shaped stories to ensure coverage that reached a diverse audience.

Start here: The New Space Age home

Cocktails

This special section provides tools and expertise to make craft cocktails at home, with a mix of recipes and tips. For this project, I shaped the overall visual aesthetic for a series published from summer to fall. I worked with designers and photo stylists to source materials and art direct photoshoots.

Can’t decide on a cocktail? Give our drink generator a shake.
I pitched, conceptualized and designed an interactive story tool that engages readers to discover a new cocktail by physically shaking their phone, a first for The Washington Post. Give the generator a shake.

Odds Against

This special section examines the impact of legalized gambling in sports, through news coverage, accountability journalism and advice for navigating this new landscape. I helped launch this section by serving as the lead designer, art director, photo editor and project manager. I established basic templates to use for recurring columns, produced weekly original photo illustrations and hired freelancer photojournalists to bring this new line of coverage to life.

Dogs & psychology

This special section dives into the field of canine cognition to learn more about how dogs think and interact with the world.

Art direction: I served as the lead designer responsible for the print cover art direction and photo shoot, color palette, illustrator curation, and project managing print and digital.

Print: This was a 12-page special section published on August 19, 2021, ahead of of National Dog Day on August 26.
See the full section here.

Digital & mobile: Worked on 7 stories for the section, including a photo essay, art directed illustrations and original photo illustrations.

La Navidad

In this ultimate personal project, I wrote, art directed, designed, and conceptualized across platforms for Celebrating Navidad, a roadmap of my family’s traditional Christmas with recipes from my upbringing. From this one story idea, I adapted the story to reach audience in various ways, from creating a comic for Instagram, designing the Lily Lines newsletter and creating a Spotify playlist. In this project, I worked on new ways to tell a single story with words, sound, taste and illustrations that evoked nostalgia. Read the story

Oscars ballot

The Oscars aired late in 2021, but viewers could still predict winners ahead of 93rd annual Academy Awards. I was responsible for illustration/animation art direction and digital design concept. Readers can vote by clicking on a nominee, and compare their answers with other voters and movie critic Ann Hornaday’s pick. Each commissioned spot illustration represents a nominee in the bet picture category. Read the story

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