Loyola University Chicago
2025–Present
"[Loyola is] Chicago's Jesuit, Catholic University - a diverse community seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith."
Working at Loyola has provided me with the opportunity to work on a variety of projects for a wide range of clients. Below is a selection of those projects.
All of the projects I have worked on have been in collaboration with, or art-directed by, the creative team: Director of Creative, Susan Schmidt; Associate Director of Creative, Joe Darrow; and Assistant Director of Creative, Michael Gawlik.
Learn more about Loyola at luc.edu and luc.edu/mission/about.
Your Rambler Journey | 2025–Present
The Creative Team was tasked with reviving, updating, and rebranding the student experience, previously known as Engage Loyola.
What started as a booklet design, grew into buttons, lapel pins, a stole, and digital assets. As of now, Your Rambler Journey is still evolving and growing.
Learn more about the Loyola student experience and visit the program’s accompanying website at www.luc.edu/ramblerjourney.
Print Ads | 2025–Present
A recurring project type is to create print ads for the various schools and programs on campus. The ads range from a full- to half-page in size and are commonly used in purchased ad space within a magazine or brochure. Unless specified, ads should follow a similar template and layout.
Quinlan Reputational Ranking Brochures | 2025 + 2026
During the fall 2025 semester, the Quinlan School of Business dean came to us wanting to do a campaign prior to the Graduate ranking season. The campaign included a mailing piece, 5 sets of digital ads, news stories, and an updated website. The Creative Team was in charge of the mailing piece and the digital ads. The entire team pitched in with the digital ads, but I was asked to help spearhead the print piece.
The dean shared a few reputational mailers from other schools he had saved as inspiration. After the initial meeting, Quinlan’s MarCom manager provided us with rough copy to help us brainstorm and use as initial placeholder text.
I presented a handful of options, including an accordion fold, an advent/door fold, a gate fold, and a pop-up option. The dean was immediately taken with the advent calendar idea. However, he asked us to hold onto the other options for later and brought back the gate fold for the undergraduate rankings piece in spring 2026. Due to the nature of the piece, we had to create the actual print piece and a fly sheet for mailing.
In the spring of 2026, we worked with Quinlan again to make the gatefold. Since this piece couldn’t be mailed as easily as the last piece, we had to design a custom tear-away embossed envelope. The Chicago lineart was created by Michael Gawlik and was adapted to mimic the skyline photo on the front of the print piece. The creative team also created another 4 sets of digital ads, with the help of Lukas Keapproth as the photographer.
Animation | 2025–Present
Before starting at Loyola, I had a very rough understanding of After Effects and how to utilize animation for graphic design. I was asked to learn by turning flat digital screens into animated ones.
For longer events like Welcome Week and Ignatian Heritage Month, creating animated daily schedules required multiple animations, sometimes upwards of 18 different versions.