for the Office of Collecting & Design

36 Days of Type is an annual call for designers to explore and celebrate typography. Hosted on Instagram and created by Barcelona-based designers Nina Sans & Rafa Goicoechea, the open invitation to visual artists has a goal of showcasing interpretations of the Latin alphabet. In 2023 I designed a series of letters and numbers inspired by my love of playing card design history and used it as an opportunity to explore new perspectives on different types of cards — from poker and regional games, to tarot and fortune telling.

A cost effective outreach initiative for Villanova University students, this series of Zines was aimed at educating students on University history and showing the types of materials in their special collections. It also served as a call to action for current students to contribute their own stories and artifacts to be preserved by the library.

Our neighborhood is Halloween-obsessed. We close down the street, decorate the whole block together, and enjoy hosting one giant party for trick-or-teaters and parents (prior to the pandemic, the expected number of candy-seekers and pedestrian onlookers for the night of October 31 would easily reach the thousands). I constructed this Beetlejuice-inspired prop for our annual block party. After receiving so many questions about the prop’s construction, I decided to make an instructional guide to show people who were interested.

These simple little critters were created for a community initiative for Tessitura Network professionals in the Arts & Culture industry. Groups were formed by discipline and came together to share success stories and hurdles within their chosen fields. The pin badges for the campaign would go on to become long-term unifiers for colleagues at conferences and community gatherings.