July’s highlights included graduating from the Top Shelf Retail program, designing some new collections, reading more than usual, and seeing wholesale orders begin to pick back up…

Introducing the eighteenth business journal blog post of the monthly Business Journal series. June’s highlights included launching Disability Pride, submitting my ACDBE application, attending the AMAC Conference, and visiting my family in Colorado…

The week of June 7th - we held a fun NCAA-style competition over on Instagram to help determine what designs to turn into stickers and other merchandise. All designs were hand-lettered and illustrated by Chelsie Tamms and community a variety of topics related to disability pride and ableism. Check out the results and winning designs…

The disabled community has been under-served and underrepresented for too long, often fighting to be seen and recognized. Through the Disability Pride Collection, Lettering Works aims to promote acceptance over awareness, while empowering those of the disabled community to unapologetically be who they are, take up space, and dismantle ableism…

Introducing the seventeenth business journal blog post of the monthly Business Journal series. May’s highlights included branding work for a variety of small businesses, taking a week-long staycation and exploring Chicago, and seeing my work for the first time at the Chicago History Museum.

Introducing the sixteenth business journal blog post of the monthly Business Journal series. April’s highlights included launching an event rebrand with the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, graduating from the GovCon-Airports Program, leading a successful webinar on pricing with confidence, and becoming fully vaccinated…

The Women Business Development Center’s GovCon-Airports Program helps small businesses and concessionaires who currently have contracts at Chicago’s airports, and businesses seeking to do business with the airports. Over 15 businesses were represented in the recent cohort, which consisted of weekly, three-hour sessions for eight weeks…

Introducing the fifteenth business journal blog post of the monthly Business Journal series. March’s highlights included relaunching Cool Beans, working with the National Kidney Foundation, wrapping up Self-Made Artist Academy’s first cohort, and participating in GovCon-Airports program…

Introducing the fourteenth business journal blog post of the monthly Business Journal series. Februarys’s highlights included launching Self-Made Artist Academy and two additional mini courses, hosting a handful of webinars, presenting to some classes, and taking a short vacation…

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