Beth Vande Griend

Beth Vande Griend

Designer in Chicago, she/her

About

I'm a Senior Designer living, working, and running around Chicago.

Work Experience

2022 — 2024
2021 — 2022
2020 — 2021
Chicago, IL
2017 — 2020
Chicago, IL

Side Projects

Ongoing

Distant is a vibrant, vulnerable digital community that inspires easy-going exchange. Visit our website to join ✦

Projects

2023

Backed by decades of experience, Future Partners is a creative insights firm shaping winning strategies for travel, tourism, and hospitality leaders.

2023

Can I Show You Something? is a quarterly showcase of the unique ways Distant Community members utilize specific digital tools.

Our third installment of CISYS explores how creatives use Notion: a productivity and note-taking web application that offers organizational tools, including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, bookmarking, and more.

2022

Shaping new futures—from the inner workings of the human genome to the outer edges of the universe. A joint venture between leading real estate developers Beacon Capital Partners and Trammell Crow Co., Hyde Park Labs is a state-of-the-art science venture campus initiated by the University of Chicago.

2022

The Edge Effect is a phenomenon describing the exponential enrichment that takes place when different ecosystems overlap with one another. When applied to innovation, these interactions provide the potential to share value, create access, and inspire new ideas.

Dialogue, proximity, interface, objects, environment, community— whether physical or digital, any exchange can bring opportunity. In these moments of interaction, we can deepen our understanding, expand our perspective, and advance our practice.

2022

Transportation accounts for nearly a third of our country’s carbon footprint. In the face of a rapidly warming world, Slé believes that a brighter future starts with the way we move. The app helps people make intentional choices to get from A to B by bringing transparency and connection to our mobility patterns—whether we’re driving a car, taking the train, or riding a bike.

2022

Backed by a team of medical experts and leading technologists, Commure is creating the tools for a healthcare ecosystem that puts people first—starting with software. After raising over $500 million of Series D funding, Commure approached Landscape to build an evolved brand identity that unites health innovators around open collaboration.

2022

Can I Show You Something? is a quarterly showcase of the unique ways Distant Community members utilize specific digital tools.

Our inaugural event was about all things Are.na, “a place to save content, create collections over time and connect ideas. Privately or with other people.”

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