Loved and Welcomed 2020

PIECE Studio decided to create a project to help make students and faculty at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa to understand the power of love, acceptance, tolerance and equality. The Loved and Welcomed initiative took inspiration from Valentine Day cards an from Secret Santa’s. Both cards and gift are anonymous and the not knowing […]


The Seeds of Brexit 2020

PIECE Studio created a series the “Seeds of Brexit” posters as a response to the results of the Brexit vote to remove the UK out of Europe. Images of Formula One race car drivers  are combined with quotes from either UK Politicians or UK Musicians from roughly the same time period. The juxtaposition of the […]


ZEBRA Design Symposium 2013

PIECE Studio created the promotional poster and developed the theme and structure for a World Design On-Line Symposium called ZEBRA. The symposium embraced socioeconomic, cultural, environmental and political topics from the design perspective. PIECE Studio identified international experts to explore issues and give context about design and community engagement in design education and design practice. In […]


PROJECT M Exhibition 2010

PIECE Studio created the inaugural PROTECT M Exhibition at the BI Worldwide Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition showcased the results of the PROJECT M project held in Minneapolis, 2010. PROJECT M participants and advisors spent fourteen days in the Whittier Community and produced mats that had WELCOME HOME screen-printed on them and were distributed throughout […]


Narcissism Exhibition 2010

PIECE Studio produced all promotional material, signage and exhibition catalogue for the Narcissism of Minor Differences exhibition held at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The poster images document the physical transformation a Native American after being removed from his tribe, family and culture, against his will, and placed in a school for away from […]


Maryland Society for Sight 2007

PIECE Studio was contacted by the Maryland Society for Sight (MSS) to assist them in a funding event and a promotional/awareness campaign. PIECE Studio developed a photo novella that was printed on newsprint that told the history of MSS and asked for people to engage and assist with this worthy organization. PIECE Studio Collaborated with Alissa […]


Love Champaign 2011

http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/making_the_case_to_love_champaign/ PIECE Studio was asked to run a community engagement workshop in the graphic design department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign because the communities of Urbana and Champaign, that surround the institution were disconnected and isolated from each other. Urbana is where the University is located and the disconnect is because Urbana is seen as […]


Jubilee Arts, Baltimore 2007

PIECE Studio developed the identifier, environmental signage and all promotional items for The Marcus Harris Building: Jubilee Arts Centre, Baltimore Maryland. Jubilee Arts are part of Newborne Holistic Ministries. and the Jubilee Arts project was the third project that PIECE Studio had developed, in partnership with Newborne Holistic Ministries. The design-system was then applied to […]


Johns Hopkins University: Social Conference 2008

PIECE Studio partnered with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health and Maryland Institute College of Art developed a social design and public health speaker series at Bloomberg’s location in East Baltimore. PIECE Studio worked with both institutions to create all promotional material and participated in the development of selecting speakers. The promotional posters were designed by […]


Hero Blitz 2006

PIECE Studio was awarded a SAPPI Fine Papers Ideas That Matter Award. This was the second SAPPI Ideas That Matter award that PIECE Studio had won. The PIECE Studio team partnered with the Center for Design Practice (MICA). PIECE Studio travelled to Greensboro, Alabama to work with Pam Dorr at HERO located in Greensboro, Hale County, […]