Animated gifs, social media, logos, and infographics! Because it's easier to add a few examples here than to constantly update my portfolio.
Design Updates!
Diverse Interests
Bring It On, Babylon
Designs for print magazine and optimized for digital viewing. Bring it ancient city style with contemporary commentary on ancient texts.
So you want to oppose fascism…
Fascists have radicalized me. And they should radicalize you too.
Egherman Does Design
A few examples of work done for clients who wanted clarity, joy, theatricality, sobriety or some combination thereof. Good for what ails you.
Coaching Through Transitions
This is the place I am moored to. It holds the landscape that grips my soul and contains all that is me: the Jewish me, the American me, the optimistic and happy me, the pessimist me, and the me who is rooted in justice. This is where I was nurtured...
How Can Our Networks Heal from Abuses of Power?
“The good news is that people are more loyal to sex than to taboo play.”
Love will tear us apart … or not
With all the forces trying to tear us apart, including our own personal idiosyncrasies, it is a testament to our incredible hardheadedness that Kamran and I have remained together.
“Trickster Crumb”
One day I woke up to discover that the imp in my story is a quantum being. It just occurred to me in a dream. The imp doesn’t travel in time. The imp is not measurable at times. When the imp is not measurable, strange things happen. Time changes shape. The imp divides into many.... Continue Reading →
“Dina, it’s time we moved to America.”
My grandmother was six and was in the market with her good friend, also six, when strangers attacked the shtetl where she was born. They set angry pigs loose in the streets, killing her friend right in front of her. My grandmother was unharmed. When she returned home, her mother looked at her and said: “Dina, it’s time we moved to America.”
Tradition! Tradition! Who Has the Right to Ritual
The requirement for a hide used for the Torah is that it come from a kosher animal, not that it be ritually slaughtered. Dozens of hides are needed to create just one Torah. And kosher hunting is quite a challenge given the fact that the animal, hunted or not, needs to be ritually slaughtered in order for the meat to be considered kosher.
The Rhythm of Tragedy
There is a rhythm to tragedy—especially Jewish tragedy—that feels comic. It begins with a set-up and ends with a punchline.
Using Personas to Gain Understanding and Focus
How Can Global Voices Use Personas to Move Forward? View this on Medium, please... Global Voices is asking its community to engage in defining its future path. Are we a community? Are we news? Are we media? All of the three? Something we have not yet imagined? The community council brings together a range of people... Continue Reading →
Big announcement: I am writing a novel
I always wanted to be a writer, but I hated writing. So why am I writing a novel now? What changed?
Who Has the Right to Ritual
Who has the right to ritual, to define what is and what isn't appropriate or appropriated, to declare themselves as a member of the tribe? Mourning the more than 33,000 Jews executed at Babi Yar isn’t the only reason I am collecting recordings of Kaddish. I am also trying to claim tradition and ritual and... Continue Reading →
Prayers for Mourning
Kaddish Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for mourners. It's said every day for eleven months after the death of a family member. After that it is repeated yearly on the anniversary of the death. It marks a completion. Its meaning is unimportant. The sound of the words, spoken in ancient Aramaic, is what is important.... Continue Reading →