RISE 15 Year Report

RISE is an organization that works with children of incarcerated parents in Rhode Island. To commemorate their first 15 years of impact and to set up for the following 15, RISE asked me to create a booklet style report filled with photos and infographics. Thanks to RISE for the opportunity to work together!


CLIENT: RISE (Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education)

PROJECT: 15 Year Report concept, design, and illustration

RESOURCES: Printing by TwoBolt

Working with Alli was seamless. She is an intuitive listener, an organized communicator, and had a firmly yet gentle way of keeping us on task. She not only absorbed our vision and desire for the report, but she took it to another level. The balance of sensual imagery, direct quotes and easy to access data pictures sit well in the openess and space of a clean aesthetic - giving room to absorb it all. I think we produced a powerful tool that I am confident will have a positive impact on our ability to solicit support for our work.
— Jonny Skye, Executive Director

Painted Wooden Signs

These hand-painted signs were created for Renaissance and are pretty simple to do yourself with only a few materials.

MATERIALS: 

  • wood, cut to size
  • black wood stain (optional)
  • print-outs of lettering or design
  • white chalk
  • paintbrush
  • acrylic paint

Here's what I did: 

  1. Since the wood pieces I used were from different sources and had slightly different colorings, I used a black wood stain to make all the pieces unified.
  2. I printed out the lettering to transfer to the wood by covering the back of the paper with white chalk. Then, I traced the paper printout letters with a ballpoint pen, pressing hard. This left a light chalk outline to help make the painting faster and easier.
  3. After the design was transferred, it was just a matter of painting all the letters in. I used a couple sizes of brushes and watered down my acrylic paint a tiny bit to help it flow better. 

I love how these came out and would definitely recommend trying a similar project out yourself. 

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