Graphic Design

• Promotional materials (brochures, posters, fliers, ads)
• Event materials (invitations, programs, posters)
• Fundraising materials (case statements, direct mail, invitations)
• Newsletters (for print and translation to Web)
• Annual reports
• Books

Selected examples:

Brochures



Brochure of walking tours and historic sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commissioned by the Historic Cambridge Collaborative (Longfellow NHS, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Harvard University, MIT, Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge Historical Society).



Rack card for the Ipswich Historical Society and Museums. (Bonnie designed this and many other pieces while serving as the executive director of the Society.)



Brochure (and map) of sites in Cambridge relating to George Washington and his taking command of the Continental Army in 1775.



Brochure (and map) of sites in Salem, Mass., relating to the navigator Nathaniel Bowditch; commissioned by a collaborative of organizations including Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Historic Salem, Inc., The House of the Seven Gables, Salem State College, and the City of Salem.



Spring 2007 continuing education courses brochure for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston.




Recruitment brochure for Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government's Director's Council.




Summer festival brochure/poster for Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge.




Brochure for the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Fundraising and campaign materials



Case statement for the Ipswich Historical Society's capital campaign.



Two in a series of capital campaign event invitations and collateral materials for the Harvard Divinity School's "Foundation for the Future."



Event invitation for the Cambridge Historical Society's 100th anniversary celebration.



Invitation for The Salem Partnership's 2005 Annual Dinner.

Books



Fall 2008: Bonnie Hurd Smith wrote and designed Boston Women & The Law, a walking trail of historic sites in downtown Boston about Boston women's legal history. Bonnie ws hired to complete the project by New England Law|Boston (formerly the New England School of Law) during its Centennial year.




The 2007 guidebook of the
Boston Women's Heritage Trail.



2003: Commissioned by the Emerson Bicentennial Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston,
The Living Legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a companion piece to the exhibit of the same name that Bonnie Hurd Smith wrote and designed for 200th anniversary of Emerson's birth.



Guidebook of the Boston Harbor Islands (National Park Service) for kids, researched and written by students from the Odyssey School, South Boston High School.



The Robinsons Under Sail was a privately funded project for the Crane and Bezamat families of Ipswich, Mass.



Bonnie Hurd Smith wrote and designed this book on the eighteenth-century essayist
Judith Sargent Murray, which features her portrait by John Singleton Copley.

Newsletters



"In Trust" is the newsletter of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy in Boston.

Posters


Poster for the Ipswich Historical Society's 2006 exhibit Arthur Wesley Dow of Ipswich. (Bonnie designed this and many other pieces while serving as the executive director of the Society.)



The Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society commissioned Bonnie to design a set of four posters to promote their new book, Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936. This poster, titled "Call to Reform," highlighted the contributions of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Robinson, and Susan B. Anthony.



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