Featured below are select projects from the last seven years. Due to the confidential nature of my job as a graphic designer at commercial real estate firm CBRE, I am limited in the projects I am able to share. I excel at layout design, data visualization, interactivity, presentation design, typography, and logo design.
Some of My Favs
01
Fiancé Magazine
The beginning of my modeling career, which I daily await to resume.
Fiancé Magazine has been one of my favorite projects to ever work on. My beloved wife is a cold-natured soul, and while we were engaged I made this catalog to enhance her decision-making process when she requested to wear one of my sweatshirts.
My roommate at the time, Carter Shields, took all of these photos. I designed, printed, cut, and bound the magazine myself.
02
Hellenika Brag Book
Greek-inspired ice cream shop? Sign me up!
"Brag books" are useful for retail brokers when trying to find new spaces for clients. In this instance, I made a digital microsite for a Seattle-based creamery seeking to expand locations. The most difficult part of the project was resisting the urge to down a pint of ice cream every time I opened the file.
03
Legacy Tower Brochure
An outdated piece that needed a deep breath of fresh air.
Legacy Tower has been leased by CBRE for several years and utilizes its in-house Property Marketing team for collateral and marketing materials. After several years of the same branding, the client requested an update to keep the building feeling relevant. I was tasked with creating a new branding concept and revitalizing the old brochure. Check out both files to see the difference!
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04
Education Advisory Capabilities Piece
Class is in session.
A broker uses his or her "capabilities piece" as a quick introduction to clients, usually over email. The trick is to keep the information high-level while displaying the often complex abilities of the brokers in a captivating way. Instead of sticking with a traditional PDF, I convinced several of the Dallas brokers to let me create CBRE-branded interactive microsites for them. Now everyone wants one.
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05
CBRE Trading Cards
Because...why not?
I see myself as a team morale booster, and I like to do things that surprise my team in clever, meaningful ways. That's one of the reasons I secretly designed these trading cards of my coworkers and unveiled them with great pomp and circumstance.
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06
Dallas Retail Capabilities Piece
Meet the "Retail Tone," an offshoot of CBRE's Emerald Brand.
This project required an extra level of forward thinking because the broker team specifically requested a sleek (their #1 buzzword) digital capabilities piece that could also be printed in booklet format. I worked closely with the marketing project manager and retail brokers to ensure both the messaging and design matched the desired vision.
07
End-of-Year Review LinkedIn Video
My first ever After Effects project.
2022 was an outstanding year for one of CBRE's Debt & Structured Finance groups, and they wanted my team to make a cool deliverable for them to post and share on LinkedIn. Instead of the standard static JPEG they had posted the previous few years, I took a crash course in After Effects and churned this video out in less than a day. Now, I create these kinds of videos using PowerPoint in a fraction of the time.
