As part of my senior exhibition, I created a brand system for Queer Expression St. Petersburg, a grassroots organization dedicated to queer and trans-inclusive programming that emphasizes creative movement, inner-child healing, and community building. The identity included sub-brands for the Futurity Pop-up Market and the inaugural RISE Pride Week. I also led free community zine-making workshops, using design as a platform for dialogue, reflection, and tangible expression of organizational values.
Notably, I designed an instagram carousel post communicating the urgency of raising funds before the new year, and through that post uploaded to instagram we were able to meet our goal of $2,600 in monthly Patreon contributions. Now St. Pete's only active community center has its rent covered by the community.
This installation explores how graphic design can facilitate community building and collective reflection within queer spaces. Inspired by the question “What would you change?”, I collaborated with Queer Expression St. Pete to create a community zine and installation centered on shared values like connection, humility, and imagination.
Through collage workshops, risograph printing, and collective assembly nights, participants transformed abstract values into tangible forms of care and expression. The final zine unfolds from a house, symbolizing the QE Nest, into a crown, representing the power of community. The accompanying projection and posters extend this theme, celebrating design as both a tool for collaboration and a record of queer futurity in St. Petersburg, Florida.