Skye is a designer and creative director.
Here is some of my work that I’m especially proud of.
This is a selection of commercial and editorial web design, branding, and data visualization projects that I designed and/or creative directed between 2019 and 2024. I love to work with awesome creatives and lead businesses, non-profits, and newsrooms to create compelling content and visual stories.
The Hill’s 2024 Election Center
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Lead Designer
Web / UX design
Data visualizations
Branding
Graphic design
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As the Lead Designer for Decision Desk HQ, I led the design for a collaboration with The Hill for the 2024 Elections. This Election Center includes extensive polling, predictions, and results for the 2024 primary and general elections.
The Bark Shoppe
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Freelance web and branding designer
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Redesigned the pet grooming website
Refreshed the brand's fonts and colors
Redesigned product labels
Integrated a new booking system
Oversaw Shopify development
Glaad HIV Stigma Report
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Freelance report designer
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Designed the HIV stigma report including the cover illustration and custom data graphics.
Insider Digital Covers
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Cover design
Photo selection
Digital story design
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In 2022 Insider launched its first digital cover series with Serena Williams on the cover. The project continued with different celebrities and include both the cover design and an accompanying visual story.
The New Monarchy
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Creative direction
Web design
Project management
Data graphics editing
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The New Monarchy explores Mark Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires' negative impact on the islands of Hawaii as they buy and build massive estates on native land. This project is driven by the visuals and includes drone footage, scrolly maps, and data-driven graphics to tell the story in a compelling way.
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Recognition of Excellence SND Awards, 2022
TikTok's Power of Resurrection
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Creative direction
Data graphics editing
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This story was designed and developed by one of my direct reports at Insider, Taylor Tyson. I guided her through the data analysis, storytelling, and art direction of the project.
Red, White, and Gray
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Creative direction
Data graphics editing
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Red, White, and Gray deep-dives on the aging of the US government. Consistent and compelling art and engaging charts connect all of the stories in the package.
Bain Capital Ventures
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Freelance graphic designer
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Design event branding, blog graphics, data visualizations, and presentation design for the venture capital firm's internal marketing and comms team
Conflicted Congress
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Creative direction
Web design
Project management
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The Conflicted Congress project reveals the depths of lawmakers’ conflicts-of-interest through a highly visual and data-driven mini-site that allows readers to analyze their state's level of corruption through a grade system.
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Best Data Visualization Shorty Awards, 2022
Best Editorial Package Digiday Awards, 2022
Billionaire’s Row
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Creative direction
Web design
Project management
Ceros and Shorthand development
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Billionaire's Row explores The Bishops Avenue, a street of 66 mansions worth a combined $620 million through a visual essay with mapping and gifs.
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Graphic Design USA Awards, 2021
Deaths in the Family
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Creative direction,
Data graphics editing
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Insider created the most detailed database of transgender homicides in the US over the past five years. This project shines a lot on the trends in this heartbreaking violence, while humanizing the victims, showing their faces, and telling their stories.
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Hillman Foundation Sydney Award Winner, 2022
Inside the Post-Roe Future
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Creative direction
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The First 13 series visualizes how the overturn of Roe v. Wade will impact the country, specifically focusing on the 13 states with trigger laws. This photo-based narrative is one of the stories in this package that bring
New York Institute of Pet Grooming
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Freelance web and branding designer
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Designed the pet grooming school's first website
Integrated Thinkific learning platform
Developed a style guide for the brand
Oversaw Shopify development
LGBTQ Animated Kids Shows
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Creative direction
Web design
Project management
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This first-of-its-kind database depicts how many LGBTQ characters there are in kids shows through a sortable and filterable grid as well as charts and graphs.
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Asme Finalist, 2022
Master your Money
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Creative direction
Web design
Project management
Ceros development
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Master your Money is an ongoing finance guide targeted toward millennials. The project included a custom site, interactive quizzes, and downloadable reports.
Refugee's Journey
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Creative direction
Story and data graphics editing
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This story was designed and written by one of my direct reports at Insider, Shayanne Gal. I guided her through the storytelling, web design, and art direction of the project.
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Illustrator Tara Anand won a Society of Illustrators Silver Medal for this project
Warehouse Nation
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Creative direction
Data graphics editing
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The Warehouse Nation package explores how the rise of warehouses and warehouse work has changed the US and its citizens. The stories are told through data-driven graphics, animations and illustrations, and original and sourced photography.
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SABEW Best in Business in the Explanatory category, 2022
Climate Action 30
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Creative direction
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The Climate Action 30 list presents the top global leaders working toward climate solutions.