Danbee Kim

Some photos from the People’s Unity Platform launch rally this past Saturday taken by Alex Santos featuring our coalition members + the artwork & visual branding I created 🎨

Community leaders of grassroots movements spoke out about each of the 6 demands of this coalition: Education, Housing, Climate, Violence Prevention, Public Health & Safety, and Worker’s Rights. Ongoing campaigns in these demands include , Treatment Not Trauma, Loving & Liberatory Schools, End Sacrifice Zones, , End the Gang Database, Invest in Peacebook, Reparations for Survivors of Police Torture, Rideshare Living Wage & Safety Ordinance ⚡️

You can stay connected with the coalition updates and upcoming events over at ❤️‍🔥

Create With Yari—Equity Centered Community-Based Design ⠀
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Overjoyed to have worked on visual branding system with the incredible Yaritza Guillen and her first business! ⠀
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After years of doing equity work and community-based design, Yaritza is launching her official consultancy that will expand to different communities and organizations throughout Chicago. Yaritza values creating a bridge and an understanding between the designers, the built environment, nature, and BIPOC communities.  She wants to ensure that we are creating environments that do not impose, but instead engage people to work across differences through building trust, countering historic and systemic disparities, and unifying residents to create a vision and positive change of their own definition.⠀
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Want to learn more about Yaritza’s work? Head over to and her newest website home, www.yaritzaguillen.com

A lil preview of final brand style guidelines as we wrap up our work together next week. A lot of my clients end up creating ongoing marketing materials themselves, typically on Canva or Adobe Illustrator/Indesign. This is where the education piece comes in. The guidelines are filled with tips on how to use your logos, color palette, icons, fonts. Video recorded tutorials going over design templates are also included to give guidance as you play around with your new visual identity! Branding can feel like an intimidating investment, even if you’ve been in business for a while. I want to make sure my clients feel they’ve truly gained back when they’ve put in. ⠀
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ID: Text reads: Trauma-Informed NVC Best Practices & Usage / Photo and Palette Pairings. Image of glass jar of flowers on wood stool on soft cream background. Image of dark blue ocean and frothy waves on sky blue background. Image of glass bowl of peaches on pale pink background.

A few outtakes from a nourishing brand experience we are wrapping up this week 💐 Tamil flowers, sacred snakes, and sweet stamps weave into this business and founder’s visual story. Although it’s a primarily digital brand, I couldn’t resist playing with some physical mockups with these tags! More to come soon.