NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARD - LEAD MOTION DESIGNER & ART DIRECTOR
In 2025 Business Insider was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for two projects that I was the lead motion designer and art director for.
View From Above’s first episode “Four Gazans Show How War Devastated Their Coastline” was nominated for the Outstanding Graphic Design – News category. I had designed and created the graphics package for that entire series and made some animations for that specific episode with fellow senior motion designer, Dorian Barranco.
True Cost’s marathon episode “The True Cost Of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals” went on to win an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage category. Being a marathon episode, it was a special project that weaved together recycled past electric car battery videos and new investigative reporting. Because it was a standalone episode, I pitched for it to have themed graphics. With a month to work on it, I designed and created some HUD-inspired animations and a graphics package for the editor to plug in. Hamzah Khan made animations for the previous electric car battery episodes, but they didn’t quite match my new graphics them. In order to keep the visual style consistent throughout the episode, I decided to replace them with my HUD-like animations.
In 2026 Business Insider was nominated for another News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage category. This was for So Expensive’s episode “Why concert tickets are so expensive – and who’s to blame,” which I was the lead motion designer and art director on. With almost 30 animations to make in 2 weeks, we enlisted a freelancer, Lancelot Lin, and the motion design fellow at the time, Poppy Houston to help me complete the project. Leading the team, I divided the work between the three of us, provided a color palette, directed them on the more paper cut-out visual style I was going with, provided images, overlay texture assets and templates, and gave feedback on all of their deliverables. The episode’s animations look so consistent in style and movement that you couldn’t even tell that three people worked on it separately.
