Kuoting Lian

The Best Damn Book of Retirement Secrets is a 155-page case bound book filled with wealth-building tips and tricks.

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Concept, design, and print production

The Center for Education Innovations (CEI) and UNICEF have teamed up to facilitate the scale-up of innovations in global education by identifying promising models and helping them grow. This report documents the challenges faced and strategies employed to overcome hurdles, it lays out clear recommendations for implementers, donors, policymakers and researchers who want to support innovation.

This piece utilizes a vibrant color palette and hand drawn illustrative elements inspired by children and education. Bold typography, illustrations, icons, and custom infographics were used to help make the content engaging easy to digest. The report is a 144 page + cover, perfect bound, and digitally printed book.

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Concept, design, print production, project management, and print vendor management

Results for Development Institute (R4D) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to unlock solutions to tough development challenges that prevent people in low- and middle-income countries from realizing their full potential. Deliverables included new logo and branding, style guide, collateral, report templates, etc.

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Concept, design, production, and project management

Be Good, Be Wise is a how-to booklet with 13 virtues to live by, inspired by Benjamin Franklin. This is a perfect bound book, 72 pages + cover, printed on an uncoated, subtle parchment sheet. And when paired w/ the classic Adobe Garamond Pro font, made for a classic and simple design.

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Concept, design, and print production

With every conference, comes its own set of branding, deliverable needs, and different vendors or teams to work with. Everything needed a schedule and all the moving pieces must arrive on time and within budget.

These moving puzzles were a personal favorite to work on. Deliverables often included a printed program, stand-up banners, digital marketing, video templates for presentations, name badges, way finding signage, booth materials, gift procurement, and more. Not only for the conference itself, but materials for all the exhibitors as well.

These project often required a team to work on them, and I managed assignments, reviewed work, and set schedules for project team.

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Concept, design, print and digital production, project management, vendor management, and team leader

The Center for Health Market Innovations is an organization out of Washington, D.C. that promotes programs, policies, and practices that make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to the world’s poor. The Innovator’s Handbook is an attempt to share knowledge between innovators in an open and informal way, to improve primary care. The book is a 72 page + cover, perfect bound, digitally printed piece with a 100# Cover and 70# Text.

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Concept, design, print production, project management, and print vendor management

AES is a global energy corporation that had recently moved in to 3-floors of brand new office space for their headquarters in Arlington, VA. Deliverables included glass branding walls, office frost and signage, vinyl murals, evacuation signage, digital displays, wayfinding as well as all materials needed for the ribbon cutting, i.e., commemorative pins, booklets, posters, etc.

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Design, production, project management

Open Works is a community makerspace in Baltimore, MD dedicated to making the tools, technology, and the knowledge to use them accessible to all. Deliverables include responsive web design and custom icons.

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Concept, design, and project management

Live Baltimore is a non-profit that help people find a place that they can call home in Baltimore. They wanted to start a campaign to promote city and neighborhood love and pride and urge residents to remain in the city and encourage others to consider city living. Deliverables include: logo, banner-ups, posters, fliers, bus stops, microsite, and social media materials.

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Concept, design, and production

Waldorf Station is Charles County’s first urban lifestyle development project. Deliverables included brochure, pop-up banners, series of illustrated maps, and website design.

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Concept, design, production, and print vendor management

Chaney Enterprises is one of the leading suppliers of construction materials and supplies in the Mid-Atlantic. Their headquarters moved in to a brand new office space in Gambrills, MD. Deliverables included large format vinyl murals, photographic canvas prints, signage, and vinyl timelines.

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Design, production, and project management

THE FUTURIST is a bimonthly magazine published since 1967 by the World Future Society. This illustration depicts the connections of a self-generative community and was created based on one of the feature articles, "Learning from Informal Cities, Building for Communities".

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Design