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The "Maritime Beacon" Everyone has a photo of the Breakwater Lighthouse, so instead of another pretty picture, I treated it like a navigational chart. The kind of blueprint the original designers might have used to build it.
The "Invasive" Since the zebra mussel is the undeniable villain of the ecosystem, I decided to give it the "know your enemy" treatment, turning a sharp, invasive nuisance into a surprisingly intricate, vintage-looking biology specimen.
The "Rat's Nest" If you look up in the Old North End you see a chaotic tangle of power lines and dangling sneakers rather than sky, so I captured that gritty texture to create a graphic that feels like an actual reminder of Btown.
"Retro Tech" Inspired by the 90s fleece era, this design simplifies the sunset over the Adirondacks into pure geometry and neon accents, looking like a vintage badge you’d find on a piece of gear that’s been in your trunk for twenty years.
The "Editor-in-Chief" I illustrated the newsletter's mascot, the black Lab (Roxy and Phoebe!) to create a character that feels both trustworthy, and like she’s been delivering the local news since 1955 with those studious glasses on.
The "Stick Season" Palette While tourists chase the green summers and orange autumns, this design honors the honest, slate-gray reality of the months between, matched to the view out your window during Vermont's infamous cold, mud season.
The "Crossing" The Lake Champlain ferry is a daily ritual for so many of us, and I wanted this to feel like something the deckhands would actually wear. Something nautical, industrial, and quietly proud.
The "Pit Memorial” Taking the classic collegiate aesthetic and applying it to Burlington’s most famous hole in the ground, this varsity-style memorial commemorates the decade spent waiting for a rebuild from the ashes of Church St’s old mall.
The "Flynn Ave Monolith" The world’s tallest filing cabinet is a piece of local lore that defies explanation, so I gave it the abstract wireframe treatment it deserves. While the real cabinet has many more levels, I feel like this representation hits the right notes.
The "Heavy Maple" The maple creemee is basically our state religion, but most shirts treat it like a joke. I wanted to give it the reverence of a vintage culinary brand.
The “Grid of BTV” From the Whale Tails to the flannel, this design arranges the visual vocabulary of the city into a clean grid, distilling the "Burlington Starter Pack" down to its most recognizable icons.
The "Champtanystropheus" I wanted to strip away the cartoon mascot vibe entirely and treat Champ like a prehistoric biology specimen, creating a shirt for true believers that feels less like a souvenir and more like a page ripped from an old field journal.
The "Scientific Etching" While Champ gets the press, the Sturgeon is the actual prehistoric dinosaur swimming in Lake Champlain (living as old as 150 years), so I designed this as a heritage piece that turns a muddy lake dweller into a fine-line natural history etching.
The "Church & Cherry" (Commuter) Channeling the bold, blocky aesthetic, I turned the daily commute through the Church & Cherry intersection into a piece of stark modernist art that elevates a routine bike ride into a heroic act of transit.
The "Lake Glass" On those rare, windless evenings, Champlain goes completely still and the sunset warps across tiny ripples like molten glass. I wanted to capture that abstract moment, cropped so tight you don't immediately know it's water, just color and texture.