Channing Ritter

Product & visual design direction

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  • Contributing to the open source WordPress project

    Contributing to the open source WordPress project

    I’m a full-time sponsored contributor on the open source WordPress project and a Design Director at Automattic, where I co-lead the open source design team. My team and I regularly contribute to the UX/UI of the product as individual contributors, and I often play a role on the design side of major WordPress releases. The…

  • WordPress: Releases & brand-building

    WordPress: Releases & brand-building

    Most of my work on the WordPress project is as an individual contributor — but I’ve also been involved with figuring out how to tell the unique story of each of the past few major WordPress releases to the world. The first release I worked on was Josephine, creating the release’s album cover art (a WordPress release…

  • Google Primer: Product design & brand relaunch

    Google Primer: Product design & brand relaunch

    Google Primer is a free mobile app for quirky interactive business and marketing lessons that can be done on the go. As Design Lead on the Primer team, I successfully lobbied for a fully accessible redesign of the app so that users of any and all abilities can navigate, understand, and use Primer successfully. The…

  • Google Primer: Desktop & mobile website design

    Google Primer: Desktop & mobile website design

    Google Primer is a free mobile app for quirky interactive business lessons that can be done on the go. As Design Lead, I oversaw the design of an accessible new version of Primer’s website, and worked with the talented London-based artist Owen Gildersleeve to create a new universe of cut paper scenes that helped bring…

  • Black Box: Imagining a smart personal hard drive

    Black Box: Imagining a smart personal hard drive

    Black Box is a speculative unit of personal hardware created to house all the tiny pieces that compromise the “big data” picture of your life — an all encompassing vessel holding a lifetime of transactions, conversations, likes, secrets, and habits. What do you do with a lifetime of data? To further explore this question, I…

  • The National Trust UK: #NTHouseproud campaign

    The National Trust UK: #NTHouseproud campaign

    The National Trust of England is a historical preservation society that maintains places of national significance all over the United Kingdom, keeping the country’s most treasured castles, estates, coastlines, nature reserves, and gardens open — and easily accessible — to the public. As part of a new effort to capture a younger and more urban…

  • The Wexner Center for the Arts: Promotional design

    The Wexner Center for the Arts: Promotional design

    I designed a series of promotional print pieces for upcoming exhibitions and events at The Wexner Center for the Arts, one of Columbus Ohio’s most innovative contemporary art spaces. Contributors: Chris Jones

  • Boston Book Festival: Commemorative merchandise

    Boston Book Festival: Commemorative merchandise

    I designed merchandise and other promotional materials for the 2014 and 2015 installations of Boston’s annual literary festival. Commemorative posters are available for purchase in the BBF online store. Contributors: Lana Z Porter

  • The Neuberger Museum of Art: ‘Plastic’ Exhibition Guide

    The Neuberger Museum of Art: ‘Plastic’ Exhibition Guide

    Exhibition guide design for Plastic: Art in an Era of Material Innovation at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Contributors: Grace Converse

  • 24 Hours of Lost Causes: Generative design book series

    24 Hours of Lost Causes: Generative design book series

    LOST CAUSE INC is a self-initiated project that catalogues the near-moments of activism on social media. This series of books was created by collecting tweets using the hashtags #angry, #problems, and #stop in a database. Then, the books were generated one by one from the data using Basil JS. Each book in the series tells…