Portfolio :: Merge Design & Interactive

Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Gift Cards and Promotional Offer Cards

Designed the overall Michael Anthony brand to integrate with the Aveda brand look and feel. Here, gift cards and promotional offer cards use strong textural imagery that allude to the MA/Aveda experience.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Gift Cards and Promotional Offer Cards

Additional gift card samples.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Gift Cards and Promotional Offer Cards

Additional promotional card samples.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Price Guide/Service Brochure

Designed the price guide/service brochure, elevating the Michael Anthony brand to align with the Aveda experience through imagery, typography, and print production choices.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Price Guide/Service Brochure

Accordian-style brochure is rich with vibrant imagery on the exterior panels, with clean, simple typographic treatments on the interior panels.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: Price Guide/Service Brochure

Additional panels of brochure show elegant, understated design elements that link the Michael Anthony brand with the Aveda brand.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: MAX Promotional Cards

Designed the MAX (Michael Anthony Xperience) promotional program, which included a referral system for garnering increased repeat and new business.
Michael Anthony Salon Spa: MAX Promotional Cards

MAX promo cards were given out to all clients to encourage repeat visits and to incentivize them to bring in friends/family. Enticing, vibrant imagery conveys the MA/Aveda experience, while type is clean and simple.
SXC Health Solutions: InformedRX® Corporate Brochure

Redesigned the overall branding of the InformedRX® product offering. Key materials included the InformedRX® brochure, the primary marketing piece.
SXC Health Solutions: InformedRX® Corporate Brochure

Gate-fold style brochure opens from the center to reveal interior panels. Charts and info graphics were reworked to be easy to understand. Pops of color like the lime green re-energized the product in a market typically known for being stale and bland.
SXC Health Solutions: InformedRX® Sell Sheets & Case Studies

Redesigned the overall branding of the InformedRX® product offering, including a series of sell sheets and case studies used to educate and inform potential clients on the InformedRX® offering.
Cantigny Park: Wedding Brochure

Designed high-end brochure for Cantigny Park's wedding space offering.
Cantigny Park: Wedding Brochure

Design incorporates lush, vibrant photography and elegant typographic treatments.
Cantigny Park: Wedding Brochure

Design highlights the beauty of the Cantigny's space, while the copywriting gives just the right amount of detail on the grounds and overall package offering.
InnerWorkings: Annual Reports

Designed InnerWorkings' annual report for the past several years, working to visually communicate the company's message and yearly mission along with annual performance data in an engaging manner.

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InnerWorkings: Annual Reports

Designs often incorporate some sort of fold out or specialty print production technique to help IW stand out…since they are a print fulfillment company, they strive to showcase the quality of their printed pieces.

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InnerWorkings: Annual Reports

Each year, the annual report takes on a new theme. While the overall brand stays consistent, we visually communicate the unique theme through photography, graphic styles and typography.

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InnerWorkings: Corporate Capabilities Book

Designed hard- and soft-cover corporate capabilities books, showcasing the InnerWorkings offering through lively imagery and bold typography.

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InnerWorkings: Corporate Capabilities Book

The books convey information in unique ways… a checklist, for example, takes on its own energy though color and movement thanks to the surrounding visuals.

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InnerWorkings: Corporate Capabilities Book

Book spreads incorporate impactful imagery with plenty of open space, helping the flow and overall read of the book.

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InnerWorkings: Corporate Brochures

Designed gate-fold style corporate brochure to highlight the company's capabilities and service offering.

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InnerWorkings: Corporate Brochures

Additional shot of gate-fold brochure.

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InnerWorkings: Fact Sheets

Designed engaging fact sheets that use bold, unexpected type treatments and graphics to convey data.

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FTI Consulting: Recruitment Brochure/Folder

Designed overall recruitment campaign, including the primary brochures/folders that house various informative pieces. Campaign also included postcards, print ads, handouts, and more for use on campus (not shown).
FTI Consulting: Recruitment Brochure/Folder

Additional recruitment brochure.
FTI Consulting: Recruitment Print Ads

Designed various print ads for recruitment initiatives for use in business publications.
FTI Consulting: Real Estate Brochure

Designed brochure for the Real Estate division of the company, introducing the specific offerings of the group.
ACH Foods: Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast Check Lane Sales Kit

Designed and developed complete sales kit to be used by grocery store check lane clerks, educating and empowering them to become brand ambassadors for the new Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast product.
ACH Foods: Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast Check Lane Sales Kit

Educational sales kit included information on product facts, selling tips, recipe "spinner" selector, shirt pins, product samples and more. Entire kit was shrink wrapped to a 12" circle (pizza shape).
Echo Global Logistics: Brochures

Designed numerous brochures for internal corporate communications as well as for various external sales initiatives.

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Echo Global Logistics: Sales Materials

Designed folder and numerous sell sheets to be used by the Echo sales force.

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Echo Global Logistics: Trade Publication Advertising

Developed overall branding which pushed Echo outside the typical "look and feel" of its industry, while conveying its power and expertise. Print ad designs are vibrant and energetic, staying true to the Echo brand while breaking through the clutter.

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Premier Properties: Luxury Listing Book

Designed the distinguished listing book for Premier Properties, Southwest Florida's most prestigious real estate firm for luxury properties.
Premier Properties: Luxury Listing Book

Additional book spread sample, showing multiple listings.
Premier Properties: Newspaper Listings

Designed template for which all Premier Properties' properties would be listed in weekly newspapers.
McCormick Freedom Museum: Special Events Brochure

Designed brochure for the McCormick Freedom Museum's special event space on Michigan Avenue, showcasing the versatility and uniqueness of the space.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Special Events Brochure

The overall flow of the brochure combined full-bleed, striking imagery with more detailed content pages, creating appropriate pacing.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Special Events Brochure

Additional sample spreads of brochure.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Designed and developed complete nationwide program for the Freedom in Libraries campaign, an initiative to educate and empower citizens to exercise their First Amendment freedoms that the library. Campaign included an extensive Library Kit (posters, flyers, shelf danglers, table tents, promotional giveaways, etc.), resource guides, interactive website and more.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Designed various posters and flyers for the campaign for use by librarians, teachers and administrators.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Designed coordinating shelf danglers, table tents, bookmarks and more for use onsite at various libraries nationwide.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Additional poster designs.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Additional poster designs.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Freedom in Libraries Campaign

Onsite library photos, showing materials in action.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Lesson Plans

Designed numerous lesson plans, promoting various "hot topic" discussions for the classroom. Lesson plans were designed with a detailed lesson plan with worksheets on one side, and a full-size poster for the classroom on the reverse.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Lesson Plans

Individual pages from lesson plan are easily used by teachers in the classroom.

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McCormick Freedom Museum: Lesson Plans

Design includes full-size poster on back of lesson plan for use within the classroom.

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DePaul University CPE: Program Brochures and Course Guides

Redesigned the overall look and feel of all DePaul CPE brochures and course guide materials across various departments.
DePaul University CPE: Program Brochures and Course Guides

Additional Course Guide spread example.
DePaul University CPE: Program Brochures and Course Guides

Designs include registration forms for all offered courses.
DePaul University CPE: Program Brochures and Course Guides

Designed trifold style brochures for smaller programs, as well as print ads, banner ads, postcards and more (not shown).
Towers Perrin-ISR: Workplace Safety Brochure

Designed key brochure on workplace safety, communicating how Towers Perrin-ISR's services can help companies achieve maximum workplace safety and therefore minimize safety related expenses in a branded, visually engaging manner.
Towers Perrin-ISR: Workplace Safety Brochure

Design combines compelling workplace imagery, charts/graphs, and text content in an easily consumable manner.
Towers Perrin-ISR: Best Practices Brochures

Designed numerous brochures on various best practice areas. Brochures maintain brand consistency, while also standing out on their own.
Towers Perrin-ISR: Folders and Sell Sheets

Designed corporate brochures and various sell sheets for wide range of uses, external and internal.
Towers Perrin-ISR: Internal HR Materials

Designed various internal HR print materials, including brochures, sell sheets, and other informational handouts.
Walgreens: Chronic Medication Patient Retention Program- Direct Mail

Designed direct mail package that included important information for patients on chronic medication plans. Various mailers were sent out at different touch point to encourage prescription refill and long term use, as well as to educate the patient on their specific medications.
Walgreens: Chronic Medication Patient Retention Program- Direct Mail

Trifold mailer piece specifically targeted the patient recipient through imagery and text.
Walgreens: Chronic Medication Patient Retention Program- Direct Mail

Interior panel sample: typography is friendly and inviting, open and honest.
Walgreens: Chronic Medication Patient Retention Program- Direct Mail

Interior panel sample: imagery is approachable while text targets the specific recipient.
Village of Hoffman Estates: Community Welcome Brochure/Folder

Designed welcome brochure/folder that serves as primary source of information for all Village services and resources.
Village of Hoffman Estates: Community Welcome Brochure/Folder

Clean, easy-to-navigate layout allows for easy access of all information related to the Village.
Cahootie Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed entire Cahootie brand, beginning with logo and flushing through to all brand packaging and materials. The Cahootie game has multiple line extensions – here we show two popular versions, Wishes & Dreams and Truth or Dare.
Cahootie Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed actual game pieces, as well as instructions booklet, stickers, and more (not shown).
Cahootie Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed sell sheets for wholesale/retail sales efforts.
Kubit2Me Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed entire Kubit2Me brand (winner of numerous awards), beginning with logo and flushing through to all brand packaging and materials. The Kubit2Me game has multiple line extensions – here we show the Truth or Dare version.
Kubit2Me Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed the Now You're Talkin' game extension, including primary packaging, bonus supplemental box, game cards, instructions, stickers and more.
Kubit2Me Inc.: Game Product Packaging

Designed the Lil' Scholars game extension, including primary packaging, bonus supplemental box, game cards, instructions, stickers and more.