Art direction and layout design for Barron’s Guide To Wealth publication.

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“How to Invest $100,000 Now” where top financial advisors share guidance on achieving lasting prosperity. Keeping the three illustrations as a narrative set, our adventurer goes on one journey throughout with different financial paths to follow. Our feature story art includes nods to our Barron’s writers and the areas they recommend. Illustrations by: Louis Otis

“How to Invest for the Year Ahead” where investors learn what they have to do by the end of the year deadline and also looking towards the future for success in 2024. I leaned into the theme of to do list post-its, alarms, reminder visuals to demonstrate a sense of urgency. Illustrations by: Nathalie Lees

A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive edited by Bob Mankoff. Two volume, slip-cased collection of 10 decades of New Yorker cartoons. Case, Cover and interior layout design.

Design Kristen Ren
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal
Credit Eight and a Half

Logo, collateral and motion graphics for StoryCorps, a national project to inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.

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Design & Lettering Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Design direction and layouts for Penta, a quarterly magazine under Barron’s Group. The magazine focuses on luxury lifestyle, collecting, philanthropy and investing targeting families with assets of $5 million and up. Distribution of 360K plus.

Photo Editors include: Sarina Finkelstein, Halie Chavez, Alis Atwell, Sam Kelly

Logo, package design and hand drawn typography created for the Locker Family Recipes’ four flavors of frozen kugel. 

Design & Lettering Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Editorial design for Mansion Global glossy magazine, winner of a National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) 2021. Received Gold award for Best Design in the Home or Shelter magazine division.

Graphic packaging, opening titles and end credits, for 2018 HBO Family documentary “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm.” A short film about the Holocaust framed by a conversation between a great grandson and his grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor. Featuring Emmy winning animation by Jeff Scher.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Art Direction Bonnie Siegler
Directed and produced by Emmy winner Amy Schatz
Credit Eight and a Half

Design, story generation, art direction and production management for Reside, a Sotheby’s International Realty brand magazine. The publication focuses on arts, culture, travel, style and inspirational homes.

Legacy website for David Rowland, industrial designer and inventor most known for the 40/4 chair. Website includes scrolling biographical timeline, design philosophy, 40/4 chair information and testimonials. 

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Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Site Engineering  GoodFolk
Credit Eight and a Half

Art direction and design for select features, special editions, and layouts for the print weekly, Newsweek Magazine. 

Layout Design Kristen Ren
Credit Newsweek
Creative Direction Dirk Barnett

Logo design, collateral and website for Venture Crush, a programming and community building event for tech companies and start-ups created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler and led by Ed Zimmerman. 

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Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Site Engineering Mediapolis
Credit Eight and a Half

Beauty and lifestyle book for supermodel and mogul Christie Brinkley. Published by Grand Central Life & Style

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Cover Design Bonnie Siegler
Credit Eight and a Half

Logo, identity and collateral for the Climate Museum, whose mission is to educate visitors, arm them with simple solutions and foster discussion. The museum will be the first of its kind in the US, finding its home in New York City.

Read all about it in the New York Times
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Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Unique title cards and end credits created for each Classical Baby Lullaby animation. Type uses existing HBO Kids Classical Baby branding and integrates with each opening frame.

Design Kristen Ren
Directed and produced by Emmy winner Amy Schatz
Edited by Tom Patterson
Credit Eight and a Half 

Logo design for Versify and imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt led by Newbery Medalist and educator Kwame Alexander. This imprint’s mission is to make powerful prose, novels and nonfiction accessible and celebrate the lives of all children and empower them to create a better world.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Video from Versify
Credit Eight and a Half

Encyclopedic resource book for learning the role color plays in the everyday.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Creative Direction Andrew James Capelli
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal
Credit Eight and a Half

Created holiday graphic title treatment for Will & Grace's Christmas special. Credit title cards with custom modified type for NBC's revival of the show. 

KoMut Entertainment
Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Logo and app skin for Gro a Scotts Miracle-Gro product.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Editorial layouts, production management and story idea generation for Mansion Global: Experience Luxury, a quarterly newsprint publication showcasing the finest homes and the latest trends in luxury living. This publication taps into The Wall Street Journal’s high net-worth subscribers and reaches 120K plus distribution.

Website redesign for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. 

Discover more about FLLW's life through the interactive timeline, find the nearest house or building to you with the GPS markers and take a virtual tour around Taliesin West with the graphic map. 

Site Engineering Mediapolis
Credit Eight and a Half 

Logo and branding for the MFA of St. Petersburg, Florida.

To commemorate Saint Ann's School's 50th Anniversary, an "unofficial history" book was gifted to each alum and current student.

Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Custom lettering graphic created for a Sonoma County and Northern California fundraising effort as they recover from wildfire damage. A variety of shirts and sweatshirts were sold and 100% of the profits were donated to the Redwood Credit Union North Bay Fire Relief Fund.

Design Kristen Ren
Fundraiser organized by Elu Creative

Created BRIC’s 40th anniversary logo and companion brochure for fundraising purposes using the existing identity.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Art direction and graphics packaging for documentary film about election integrity the how your votes are counted. 

Executive Producer Katie Couric
Written and Directed by Jason Grant Smith
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival, 2016
Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Credit Eight and a Half

Invitation suite for the 16th Annual Brooklyn Public Library Gala. 

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Light photography by Jeff Scher
Credit Eight and a Half

Interior layout design for What Would Virginia Woolf Do? by Nina Lorez Collins.

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Cover painting by Jeff Scher
Credit Eight and a Half

Branding materials, signage, collateral, custom tile mural and website created for 8 Slices pizza restaurant. 

Collateral Design Kristen Ren
Logo Design Bonnie Siegler
Credit Eight and a Half

Website design for the Boston based venture capital firm Spark Capital. 

Design Kristen Ren
Art Direction Bonnie Siegler
Photographs by Charles Ommanney
Credit Eight and a Half

Book design for Candy Chang's painted walls project. Published by St. Martin's Griffin

Credit Eight and a Half
Creative Direction Jessica Bloom & Bonnie Siegler

Branded holiday collateral for Vinfolio, an online resource for fine wine collectors. 

Graphic Design Kristen Ren
Creative Direction Jessica Bloom
Credit Eight and a Half

Home decorating and design book for the HGTV stars Robert and Cortney Novogratz. Published by Artisan

Interior Design Kristen Ren
Art Direction & Cover Design Andrew James Capelli
Credit Eight and a Half
 

Various market reports created with Mansion Global Custom Studios for the real-estate space.

Invitation suite for Traci & Adam Blank. Suite includes announcement, response card, envelope, program, table games and favor packaging. 

Small batch of handmade everything bagel spice sent as Valentine's day gifts.