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The White House
The White House Office of Digital Strategy approached Carolyn with the concept of creating health care comics for the Affordable Care Act. The First Lady Michelle Obama posted the athletic cartoon on her Instagram and Twitter accounts and it has received nearly 18,000 likes on Instagram. Carolyn’s #GetCovered cartoons have been covered by several news outlets including The Washington Post, CBR (Comic Book Resources), The Blaze, The Patriot Post, ComicsDC, and more.
Fortive 2018 Annual Report
Fortive is a diversified industrial company, spun off from Danaher in 2016. At the point of its independent incorporation, it immediately became a component of the S&P 500. Spread across in more than 40 countries, Fortive’s portfolio comprised over 20 global businesses that are recognized leaders in the areas of field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution.
Carolyn designed Fortive’s annual report, which includes many images and innovative chart designs and informative graphics for Fortive Business System (FBS). Production highlights include UV coated custom dot ribbon patterns.
Danaher 2018 Annual Report
Danaher is a Fortune 500 science and technology innovator helping solve complex challenges, and improving quality of life around the world. Carolyn has designed annual reports, brochures, conference materials, logos, and other support graphics as needed for Danaher.
With the annual reports, Carolyn is able to use additional production resources. The 2018 annual report features soft touch laminate, UV coating, embossing, and a circle die cut.
Graphic Design USA honored this piece with a 2019 Health + Wellness Design Award.
49ers Museum
Levi’s Stadium is the home of the new, 20,000 square-foot 49ers Museum, a first-class celebration of the 49ers past, present and future. The museum is dedicated to its values of education, innovation and heritage and is committed to serving as an exciting, engaging home for fans of all ages. Carolyn was the lead designer for the Team Wall Interactive, a search database where users can find and connect any player by name, number, college, position, state, seasons, awards, and more.
HITT Business Model
Carolyn created several custom graphics, charts, and visual iconography for HITT construction company’s internal Business Model.
Curls
Carolyn’s comic strip Curls was first published in The Commonwealth Times, the student newspaper of Virginia Commonwealth University. While earning a BFA degree in Communication Arts and Design, Carolyn began publishing Curls as a webcomic and still continues to do so. In 2010, Curls was nominated for the Friends of Lulu Kim Yale Award to recognize women in cartooning.
Black Magic Tales: Area 52
Since 2013, Carolyn has organized several of the finest cartoonists in the Washington, DC area to devote their time and talents to sketch for blood donors annually during the “Cartoonists Draw Blood” drive with American Red Cross and National Cartoonists Society. The reason is simple: it’s a great opportunity for cartoonists to serve their community while showcasing their art skills and encouraging blood donation. This event expanded our activities beyond the drive by exhibiting work in gallery shows and producing anthology books. This four page story was published in Cartoonists Draw Blood: Monsters (our second anthology) in 2018.
The next “Cartoonists Draw Blood” American Red Cross blood drive is October 26, 2019 at 8213 Linton Hall Road, Gainesville, VA from 9AM to 2PM. All blood donors receive a complimentary cartoon sketch by a Washington, DC area cartoonist.
Mine! Anthology
ComicMix contacted Carolyn to contribute a story in their Mine! Anthology and she created a comic about Fania Mindell, one of the three women who created Planned Parenthood. Fania was also a set and costume designer for Broadway theaters in New York. Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson, Gail Simone, Cliff Chiang, Trina Robbins, Mark Waid, Louise Simonson, Dean Haspiel, Shannon Wheeler, Taylor Esposito, and many other creators were involved with the project.
This book won Best Comics Anthology last year at Baltimore Comic-Con’s Ringo Awards.
District Comics
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Working with writer Joe Carabeo, Carolyn illustrated and researched their story “Spytini,” about Elizabeth Bentley and her espionage activities inside Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown.
This book won the Shel Dorf Award for Original Graphic Novel of the Year in 2013.
Clorox Ick-tionary
The Clorox Company partnered with award-winning writer, comedian, and mom, Carol Leifer, who has written for shows such as Modern Family and Seinfeld, to launch the Clorox Ick-tionary, a wiki-style dictionary of everyday ick that parents everywhere and others are all-too familiar with.
Carolyn was asked to illustrate some of the definitions in the project and devise concept sketches based on word usage. Once Carolyn’s sketches were approved, she created the final original vector illustrations to showcase the ick.