NMP works for a variety of clients. Specializing in layout and design for print and online presentation, NMP works collaboratively with clients who are experts in their fields—effectively joining their team for project development.
Contact nan@nm-publishing.com to get a quote on your one-off project or to set up NMP as an on-demand design supplier.
2025
Taste of Wisconsin
I get a kick out of seeing the TOW yard signs I worked on scattered here and there when I drive around Kenosha. The map I recreated and updated for this year will be available on the event website soon (as of July 1). I also worked on the band schedule that prints on the backside of the map for distribution at the gate. Event website: https://www.tasteofwi.com
S. Himmelstein
My work with S. Himmelstein and Company continues at a different pace. NMP has been working for Himmelstein since 2020. The early years were intense because all projects were new to NMP and it took some investment on the part of Himmelstein for NMP to build up the library of style, model photos, recreated “pretty” versions of their technical drawings, and the completed documentation they needed.
In 2025, all of these materials are still available and work is often picking up a previous version of a bulletin and adding specifications for a new model. There may be an updated photo to go along with it, but these changes are relatively quick and easy.
Some History
This was experience I developed when I was working for CRM. We worked with around 70 colleges and universities each summer to produce their Career Guides. We did not start each book from scratch every year. In the course of a single season, my Editor-in-Chief would select 7-8 schools (based on their feedback from the previous season) for a redesign. These books would take weeks of work and proofs traveling back and forth between CRM and the school.
The rest of the schools tended to be pick-ups with some minor updates—often the dates on sample resumes, copyright statement, maybe a photo or two, maybe shifting the order of the articles, and any custom information that had changed over the course of the year. These books took perhaps an hour or two.
There was much more going on in the office—cover design and advertising review and proofing. The seasons were very busy, and the off-season time was spent archiving and preparing for the next season. The workload sounds inconceivable, but because we were well organized and had a system in place, it was manageable.
Back to the Present
I employ many of the same techniques with NMP. And now I have the agility to meet the clients at their comfort zone and, more importantly, on their schedule.
This agility is the reason I say working with NMP starts with a conversation. What you do interests me, but I’m not going to learn everything about your company. Your work interests me because you have a need that may be in my wheelhouse. I want to put my experience to work for you. The conversation is where our imaginations combine to see how to move forward together to reach your goal.
The most exciting conversations I’ve had have led to long and productive relationships.
Four Seasons Garden Club
This is the back cover of the FSGC Secret Garden Walk ticket for 2025. I made it with the help of Google maps heavily edited to remove some details, and add in a few street names to make navigation a bit easier. This year’s walk has two sections—one in the SW and one the NE. The challenge was to maintain as much magnification as possible on the map while still fitting it on the 5.5×8.5-inch page.
The Garden Walk starts with the largest concentration of gardens in the SW and finishes in the NE which makes the placement of the maps (and their related numbering) initially seem incongruous until you consider this is the actual geographical arrangement with a “center section” cut out.
My initial design idea was to create two triangular sections, but the map would have needed to be reduced too much to be legible. It would have been sacrificing function for form which is not good when you’re trying to give people direction.
Round Houses of Anton Kratochvil by Colette Murphy Broadway
Colette and I met for our initial meeting about the Round Houses of Anton Kratochvil in May 2024. She had spent nearly five years researching the round houses and information about the people who owned and lived in them.
Her vision for this book was to develop it into a print publication and send it out into the world to collect more stories about these and, just maybe, other round houses built from Mr. Kratochvil’s plans.
The production on the book included many cover designs and interior proofs as the design and content were solidified over the rest of 2024. After a pause for the holidays, the book went to print early in 2025.
Copies are available on the Shop page or you can buy them directly from Colette by emailing 15centsllc@gmail.com.
Jodie Needham Fitness
Projects in the pipeline (updated 1/3/25): Harvard U, School of Public Health, Office of Diversity & Inclusion Directory (working title), Double E Workplace Solutions Workbook (working title), Jodie Needham Fitness LL&L series fliers and Journal (working title), and more.
2024
Harvard T.H. Chan SPH, OCPD Career Toolkit
First published in 2021, the Career Toolkit underwent a major revision and reorganization this year. In addition to the Accessible WCAG PDF edition, they requested a BlueToad Edition: https://www.bluetoad.com/view/nan-mellem-publishing/career-toolkit-2024
Harvard U, T.H Chan School of Public Health, OCPD Annual Report
Updated with the latest performance statistics for their office, the 2023-2024 Annual Report was completed at NMP and supplied to OCPD as an accessible PDF.
Off The Pews Summer 2024 Newsletter
Read the Summer 2024 edition of the OTP Newsletter
Read the Fall 2024 edition of the OTP Newsletter
Jodie Needham Fitness
Coach Jodie is a busy lady, and NMP is there to help her with the materials she needs to develop her business. This year she’s begun speaking engagements at businesses and asked for a branded Powerpoint template (a standard page 3 is pictured above left). She needed a “media kit” in a sheet to send to potential clients who may be interested in booking a speaking engagement. Coach Jodie’s Lift, Lunch & Learn event series continues, and so do her quarterly Client Spotlights.
Taste of Wisconsin
Last year was my first year working with the Kiwanis’ committee that heads the Taste of Wisconsin, and I was happy to collaborate with them again this year. NMP took on some additional projects for them in addition to the map and food/drink tickets.
Additional projects included: Yard signs, posters, and rack cards (pictured above) as well as logo arrangements, advertising, banners, and food/drink vouchers.
Juneteenth Post for Off The Pews
Written this week and posted on Offthepews.org yesterday in anticipation of the holiday: Juneteenth
The Office of Diversity & Inclusion, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, HEAL Conference Booklet
The HEAL Conference booklet was an online-only publications this year (last year there was a print edition as well). Production was completed just a few days before the start of the conference. There was entirely new branding for the event, including the new logo which was supplied by Harvard. Very often client work for NMP is a collaborative effort with an in-house design department. They provide key design elements (typefaces, colors, logos, etc.), and NMP fulfills the application of those elements to a specific project.
Texas A&M Aggie Career Success Handbook
The Aggie Career Success Handbook still has the same cover design as the 2022 edition, but the interior has new, updated, and rearranged content. The Career Center requested a WCAG 2.0 Accessible edition, and an updated BlueToad edition.
The Office of Diversity & Inclusion, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
February brought a flurry of activity from Erica at ODI. Twelve pieces designed in rapid succession! It was helpful that the Speakers Series was a series of five events. Please enjoy the slide show!
DoubleE Workplace Solutions, LLC
A few projects came across my desk in February from Ed for DoubleE Workplace Solutions including a marketing piece for their 6-Hour Workshop.
Off The Pews
The Winter 2024 Edition of the Off The Pews Newsletter had a very specific release date the Friday before the King Holiday. It was a particularly long edition because it also covered information about Black History Month.
S. Himmelstein & Co.
Bulletin #7867B for S. Himmelstein & Company was finalized in January. Two other multi-page brochures are in production—currently with the client for review.
Jodie Needham Fitness
Coach Jodie selects a client each quarter to feature in her Client Spotlight. This time around she wanted to feature a group.
Coach Jodie and I hit the ground running the first week of January developing her 2024 Lift, Lunch & Learn Series of programs. The individual sessions are just about finished…two to go in March.
2023
Off The Pews Fall 2023 Newsletter
S. Himmelstein & Co. – Technical Manual Installation Tips
Double E Workplace Solutions, LLC 3-Day Leadership Fundamentals Workshop Workbook
NMP worked with Double E’s team to create a 48-page workbook for an upcoming 3-day workshop. The project involved: Developing style elements to supplement the existing Double E Workplace Solutions branding (the Double E logo); developing the page design (tabs and folio treatments); recreation of select pieces of artwork and infographics to suit the page size and orientation; page layout of the workbook content; rounds of proofing as needed; and regular meetings (coordinated by Double E) and group emails to keep the team in the loop.
In addition to the notebook, there were four pieces of collateral produced—stand-alone pages for feedback, assessments, and questionnaires.
To keep printing costs in check, most of the workbook is set in grayscale with a complete set of b/w style sheets. Certain pages containing key pieces of artwork were designated for color reproduction with a complete set of CMYK style sheets.
Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Office of Career and Professional Development, Annual Report for 2022-23
NCSU, Poole College of Management Career Center
Off The Pews
Read the article:
https://www.offthepews.org/post/food-equity-and-the-2023-farm-act
Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha
What a great treat is has been to work with the Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha as they prepare for the 2023 Taste of Wisconsin (July 27-29). This is no small production, and the number of people involved and the effort to line up entertainment and vendors is impressive. NMP created the event map for the upcoming event!
Thanks so much to Ron Horner for the opportunity to work on this project. If you’ve followed NMP’s news feed, you know I attended the Kenosha Chamber of Commerce B-2-B Expo last November. Ron mentioned the possibility of NMP working with Kiwanis at that time, and it has turned out well.
The work involved recreating the map base in Illustrator. I was supplied with a flattened PDF from the previous year, but elements on the map needed to move—there will be more vendors in 2023 than there were in 2022.
The artwork went into InDesign for layout, and the band schedules have been fine-tuned over the last month.
It turns out, there was a second map needed, too, for city and county planning. It is a version of the map above.
The map above is the 6/28/23 proof, and is subject to change…just FYI in case you’re planning to attend the event. I was excited to get this posted.
Jodie Needham Fitness
In June, Coach Jodie purchased some branded resistance bands and needed an insert to include in the package. Design by NMP, printing by Econoprint Racine.
March was a busy month for Jodie! She has an April fundraiser happening now! Plank for Frank to benefit Trooper Frank’s family as he rehabilitates. It is not too late to start!
Coach Jodie is also running a Lift, Lunch & Learn Series of programs in Kenosha throughout the year. You can register for upcoming programs at https://jodieneedhamfitness.com/workshops/
NMP is also working on Member Spotlight pieces for Coach Jodie.
Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Career and Professional Development
Work on the Graduate Outcomes sheets started in January and went through a few redesigns as the information was presented in charts first, and then icons. The icons needed to be recreated to suit the current branding by Harvard’s marketing team.
View the sheets in the PDF above, or visit the Career and Professional Development page at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/career-services/graduate-employment-outcomes/
Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Annual Report for 2021-2022 (Old Edition)
Work on the Annual Report started in 2022 with edits to the front end material, and the application of Harvard’s 2023 design style elements. The information for the data sections was not available until January 2023. The tables were set directly in InDesign, and the bar and pie charts were set in Illustrator, ungrouped for styling, and imported as in-line anchored artwork. Each bar or pie chart contains metadata for ADA compliance.
See the newest edition above.
Harvard’s SPH ODI requests that all PDFs be WCAG 2.0 AA compliant. Each PDF delivered to the school is accompanied by an accessibility report confirming its status.
My work with the ODI is an on-demand business arrangement. They send me work at their convenience and are billed at the end of the month for the hours worked.
Jodie Needham Fitness Event Flyer
NMP continues to work on-demand with Coach Jodie as she needs materials to advertise upcoming programs.
Off The Pews; Faith In Action Winter 2023 Newsletter
My official work for Off The Pews (OTP) continues to be in the role of Website Administrator. That said, I also attend the Program Committee meetings and take the minutes; set and distribute the Newsletter Publishing Calendar; act as Editor and contributor for the Newsletter and other materials as needed; and liaise with OTP partners and board members to collect information for all of these functions.
OTP has an annual contract with NMP for a set number of hours of service per month. It is renegotiated once a year based on the median hours from the previous year.