The cover photograph of Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his autobiography, the New York Times best-selling Shortest Way Home, in collaboration with W.W. Norton & Company’s Liveright imprint and art director Steve Attardo.
Name and brand identity for Colfax Corner, a 202,000-square-foot redevelopment led by the University of Notre Dame and Ancora restoring the historic South Bend Tribune building and adding an adjoining research and office facility.
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Brand design and website for Increment, a female-founded startup building labor-resilience infrastructure for industrial workers.
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A short film about Ms. Adeline Wigfall-Jones, who has been cutting hair on West Washington Street in South Bend, Indiana since 1976. Produced for Corner Store in collaboration with director Chuck Fry and filmmaker Ryan Blaske.
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A week-long campaign of short films telling the stories of four small business owners who received assistance from the City of South Bend during the pandemic. Produced for the City in collaboration with director Chuck Fry and filmmaker Ryan Blaske.
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A 12-page broadsheet comprising eight photographs from Jacob's first trip to Butte in August 2024, pieces of street-side conversations, and borrowed words from filmmaker Wim Wenders and Butte’s unofficial poet laureate, Ed Lahey.
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A large-scale installation featuring a rope map of South Bend’s west side populated with photos captured during two days of neighborhood bicycle rides. West, Home was built as part of The Birdsell Project’s summer residency in the basement of a former power plant.
An ephemeral project presenting under-utilized spaces as proving grounds for new projects focused on art, business, food, and gathering in collaboration with Helen Bauer, Dustin Mix, Maria Gibbs.
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The name and artwork for a podcast about re-imagining the church for our current moment, hosted by Mike Goldsworthy.
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An evening of stories about South Bend's people, ingenuity, and progress; told to those gathered on a former Studebaker factory floor. Hosted as a collaboration between West.SB and South Bend City Church.
A series of weekly teaching films and seasonal meditative films including A South Bend Christmas Eve, Speak What Is True: A Guided Prayer for Lent, and Daybreak at the Morris.
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An hour-long television special made to celebrate Juneteenth in South Bend. Produced in collaboration with Dr. Marvin V. Curtis, the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, director Chuck Fry, and filmmaker Ryan Blaske.
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A mural on the north face of Madison Oyster Bar in downtown South Bend painted in support of Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. Produced in collaboration with Helen Bauer and John Garry.
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A 139-year-old factory in South Bend, Indiana, becoming a home for artists and entrepreneurs.
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