Overview & Challenge
MicroPAVER was a pavement management software developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. I designed the manual cover for early versions of the software. It was a top seller for APWA.
Audience
APWA and Public Works members, specifically those working in the pavement sector.
Overview & Challenge
As Senior Designer at APWA, it was my responsibility to design much of the material associated with our complete organization rebrand. This included the cover and interior spread design of our national magazine, the APWA Reporter. The masthead color was designed to be changed with each issue, based on what photograph was used.
Audience
APWA and Public Works members and staff.
Overview & Challenge
As part of the yearly APWA Conference, I was able to design promotional materials for the conference dinner entertainment. When the conference was in Kansas City, the entertainment was a well-known jazz artist named Angela Hagenbach. I designed this jazz-album inspired promotional poster that was displayed at the conference.
Audience
American Public Works conference attendees.
Approach
I heavily researched jazz musicians and their album art from many different decades. I wanted a low-lit, smoky jazz bar feel for the poster,
Overview & Challenge
This illustration was included in an article for the APWA Reporter magazine, showcasing the various covered bridges throughout the United States.
Audience
Subscribers of the APWA Reporter magazine.
Approach
I researched covered bridges from across the world and created this digital illustration using Corel Painter. It is not a specific bridge but rather a creative interpretation based on my research.
Overview & Challenge
In order to educate children to how important public works was to the functioning of society, I created a comic book highlighting the official APWA mascot, P.W. Paws. It was a challenge to create a comic book that would be engaging and attention-keeping for children and in doing so, I created these two fun illustrative mazes.
Audience
Children ages 4-10 to learn more about public works.
Overview & Challenge
As Senior Designer, I was heavily involved in the complete organization rebranding of the American Public Works Association (APWA). As part of the rebranding, we were tasked to update the original logo to be more modern while still maintaining visual recognition with the legacy logo. The logo was designed to be used with and without the new tagline.
The new logo was widely accepted and liked, but the biggest challenge was getting all 64 national chapters to begin utilizing the logo educating “non-creative” people to follow our branding guidelines.
Audience
All national and international chapters of the American Public Works Association.
Original Logo
original apwa logo
Overview & Challenge
Many of APWA’s partners needed good public works themed clipart that they could utilize in their local newsletters and other promotional material. I created two dozen public works-related black and white digital clipart to be sold through the APWA online store.
Audience
American Public Works Chapter employees.
Overview & Challenge
At APWA, one of my largest duties was to design a multitude of publications that included very complex, technical data. It was important to me to not only design the publications so that the technical data could be easily found and digested, but also make the design itself modern and appealing.
Audience
APWA and Public Works members and staff.
This was a publication (both cover and interior layout) that I designed for the American Public Works Association’s Essays in Public Works History series.