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I went to the today for the American Indian Heritage Festival and was pleasantly surprised to see the Pauli Murray exhibit was still up. I designed this exhibit over a decade ago (during sleepless nights when the twins were infants) and it has traveled so many places: and now the NC Museum of History. I feel grateful that I’ve been able to play a small part in sharing about the life force that is Pauli Murray. Being a part of that work changed the way I think about the world.

My favorite part of putting up this exhibit was always wandering around and hearing people marvel about Pauli’s life story. It was always incredible to hear how many people from different walks of life were impacted by then. I feel a bit sad that this is likely the last time it will be displayed but those rooms of people will continue on.

If you happened to be in downtown Raleigh, I imagine it will be there until the end of the year. Stop by and check it out.

Earth day is every day. 💛💛💛

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We love all types of design challenges, but we really shine when we are working on long-form page layouts like cookbooks, technical reports, and facilitation guides.⁠
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In 2019, we collaborated with Croatan Institute to design Soil Wealth: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture across Asset Classes. This project presented several design challenges.⁠
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The first was that we had to get a better understanding of the material. Previous to this project, we did not have a very clear understanding about impact investing. After reading the report, meeting with the client to discuss the goal of the project, and doing some additional research, we had a better grasp on the material.⁠
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The second challenge was that the content was very dense and multi-layered. We want the reader to be able to subtly recognize patterns so we assigned a color to each asset class and developed a simple iconography to represent the different stages of development for each project included in the report.⁠
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The last and most difficult challenge was to create graphics for each asset class that quickly and clearly compared sustainable versus regenerative assets.⁠
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The final result is a comprehensive and easy-to-navigate report.⁠
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