FORM + FACET

09/26/2024

Project Showcase: Jumpstart Your Genealogy - Free In Person Giveaway + Online Digital Resource 🔍✨

We’re proud to showcase a past project for the African American Genealogy Group: a free resource that was extended to their website as an online guide. The printed resource provides essential tips and tools to help individuals trace their family history. The online version of the guide as a webpage included a link to the download the digital version of the booklet.

There so many benefits to repurposing your nonprofit's content and materials in this way - from meeting your visitors where they are to optimizing your content for search engines.

Have you taken a look a handouts and promotional materials you use for giveaways to re-imagine it for your website? If you're ready to have a conversation about ways to extend your existing content - let's connect!

09/19/2024

🧱 🔨 Project Showcase: AAGG Breaking Through Brickwalls - Tabling Resources & Web Page Resource for Members

Earlier this year, I was thrilled to work with the Mentor Committee at the African American Genealogy Group to create a valuable resource for people who are stuck with a genealogy brickwalls. This free guide for members and non-members, will be available both in print and as a digital format.

This free guide from the African American Genealogy Group provides step-by-step instructions and tips to help genealogists and family history researchers overcome common research challenges and the dreaded brickwalls. It acts as a companion piece to their Member Manual which is offered with a paid membership.

The online part of this project consisted of a web page that AAGG members can use to go step by step through their research to make sure they have looked under every stone to break through their brick wall. The page includes links to downloadable worksheets and resources plus a form to contact the Mentor Committee to submit a request for help.

Looking to create engaging and informative materials for your membership and visitors at your tabling event? Let's work together!

09/12/2024

I’m so proud to showcase a past project for the African American Genealogy Group. Mentor Committee at AAGG developed a comprehensive Member Manual digital resource packed with essential tools for tracing your family history for all levels of genealogy researchers.

This project featured both a digital version with clickable tabs to take the reader to each section in the comprehensive manual. PLUS we also created a second version for print for the members who prefer touch the pages (like me!)

What's inside the Member Manual?

- Clickable Table of Contents
- Links to genealogy databases
- State historical societies and archives
- Top genealogy books
- Medical terminology
- Census forms and more

Are you a Nonprofits looking for a design and technology partner to bring your web and graphic design projects to life? Let's connect to see how we can work together!

11/23/2023

11/19/2023

I'm so excited to share the release of this recent project for the Lawnside Historical Society for the Peter Mott House!

The Underground Railroad Freedom Fighters Sticker Set features historical figures who spoke, fought and supported enslaved peoples as they fled North from slavery.

This sticker set will be sold by the Underground Railroad historical site - Peter Mott House in Lawnside, NJ.

To learn more about the Peter Mott House or to visit their museum, visit petermotthouse.org. The stickers are currently for sale in the shop if you like to pick 1 or 5!

11/17/2023

This is one of the first web projects I completed at the start of my entrepreneurial journey as a web designer. I will forever be grateful to the African American Genealogy Group of Philadelphia for the trust and support for the opportunity to work on this project.

The website, built with WordPress, features a public-facing side for visitors to learn more about AAGG and genealogy research. A separate area was developed for the organizations paid members which gives them access to surname directory, videos and other content.

To learn more about genealogy and how to research your ancestors, visit AAGG at aagg.org.

Be sure to visit formandfacet.com and check out the full case study on this project.

02/17/2023

I accidentally revitalized my design business prior to COVID lockdown so I was positioned to accept this new path the Universe opened up to me.

I feel blessed to have this opportunity and grateful that I have met so many amazing passionate entrepreneurs, creators, and lots of genealogists!

My design business and potential for opportunity changed when these two seemingly disparate areas of my life combined unexpectedly.

Very soon FORM+FACET will become GOOD+RARE Design. This newest incarnation will focus on providing web and design services for niche organizations and service providers related to genealogy, and genealogical-related organizations.

Look for it. It's coming.

04/24/2015

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03/11/2015

Hauntingly beautiful...contemporary jewelry created from the hair of cancer patients.

Designer Sybille Paulsen uses unconventional materials for all of her work, but her series “Tangible Truths” is created with one of the rarest and most unique mediums—the hair of women undergoing chemotherapy. These beautiful, elaborate pieces allow women to keep their hair and wear it in a meanin…

03/05/2015

We went back to the Brooklyn Museum for some final moments with the amazing shoes on display for the Killer Heels Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Take a look a some of our favorite shoes!

03/04/2015

Check out this fantastic company from CA who is fundraising to produce biodegradable cups embedded with seeds. We

A creative company in California called Reduce. Reuse. Grow has designed a coffee cup that is not only biodegradable, but even has seeds in its walls so that it can be planted and grown! The cups, which are currently part of a Kickstarter campaign, will have seeds embedded in their walls based on th…