The Philadelphia Award turned 100 in 2021, marking a century of honoring those who used their diverse talents to shape both our city and our world. The work my team did on this book makes me especially proud because it was our chance to work in a somewhat unusual format and showcase our full range of capabilities in a printed work. While I worked closely with a writer on the book contents, our design team spent hundreds of pro bono hours on photo selection, layout, and cover design. Working with researchers, we maintained a massive database of historical photographs and threw ourselves into every city archive (online and in print) to learn about these local icons.

The structure of the book and much of its first chapter were created by me (working with a designer) to be replicated in format and style throughout by other team members.