Graphic Design

Intersection Reintroduction Post

KBIA's local news talk show "Intersection on KBIA" has been off the air for a while. In the fall of 2015, the show departed from its original format (hour-long call-in talk show, also available as online video), and had a revamp.

Part of my job on the show's production team was to reintroduce it on social media and invite the community to engage with us actively.

From an engagement perspective, this was an important message both for the show and its audience. A text-based Facebook post couldn't generate as much of an impact as we wanted. Reintroduction on Twitter is also tricky because this is too much information to deliver in a tweet.

To solve this problem, I created a graphic to present the message visually. On the one hand, Facebook's algorithm would bump up visual posts; on the other hand, a graphic like this could make our tweets say more with less.

Voila, problem solved.

P.S. I also designed this dashing new logo for the show. Punny, I know.

Adding Visual Element to Business Beat

This is another story that I found hard to make interesting online. A lot of times radio stories don't have visual elements, which makes it hard to create exciting and engaging online content. How can you make people interested in your show without giving away the whole thing?

Inspired by Time magazine's Briefing, I thought doing a mini visual preview for the show would be a good idea. My coworkers told me they liked this graphic. You get the idea; it's like a visual online teaser for a medium that is not traditionally visual. And it presents itself in places where people expect visual content.

Missouri helmet law is effective in saving money and preventing motorcycle rider fatalities

Sometimes graphic is simply the best way to tell a story. When I was reporting on a state helmet law change for a class assignment, my partner and I ran into a sea of data.

What is the best way to make these data interesting? Well, we decided to make a graphic. I selected a few data points and created a long graphic that shows Missouri helmet law is useful in saving money and preventing motorcycle rider fatalities.