MINNETONKA YACHT CLUB

The

MINNETONKA YACHT CLUB

The

MINNETONKA
YACHT CLUB

The

MYC runs large-scale regattas and social events from a clubhouse on an island. Hundreds of people, days at a time, everything ferried across water.

Over two years working inside the club, much of my role centered on communication design: figuring out what people needed to know, when they needed to know it, and the clearest way to get it to them.

I built maps, signage, schedules, menus, newsletters, event materials, and other touchpoints that helped both longtime members and first-time visitors navigate the island and the events happening around them.

Communication design that
keeps the island moving

Communication design that keeps the island moving

The official cocktail mixer of THE Minnetonka Yacht Club


BOATLEG PACKAGE DESIGN

The infamous Bootleg is a classic Minnesota cocktail—somewhere between a mojito and a frozen summer staple. At MYC, most sailors pair it with Mount Gay Rum or a classic gin, so the club’s signature mixer deserved to feel like more than something behind the bar. It became its own little brand world, complete with nautical illustration, mixing instructions, and a line that felt right at home on the lake: “Mix it in the manner that floats your boat.”

BOATLEG PACKAGE DESIGN

The official cocktail mixer of THE Minnetonka Yacht Club


The official cocktail mixer of THE Minnetonka Yacht Club

The infamous Bootleg is a classic Minnesota cocktail—somewhere between a mojito and a frozen summer staple. At MYC, most sailors pair it with Mount Gay Rum or a classic gin, so the club’s signature mixer deserved to feel like more than something behind the bar. It became its own little brand world, complete with nautical illustration, mixing instructions, and a line that felt right at home on the lake: “Mix it in the manner that floats your boat.”

ILYA regatta identity

The clubhouse is hand-drawn. It’s the first thing you see coming in by boat and the thing every member pictures when they think of the club — so it became the anchor of the mark rather than a decorative background.

Built as a crest because a crest survives everything a regatta throws at it: one-color print, embroidery, tent banners, trophies, results sheets, and a sticker on a cooler.

SIGNATURE
DRINK MENUS

REGATTA
COMMUNICATION
DESIGN

Every design graphic I built had the same requirement: work unattended, at distance, in a crowd, in weather, for someone who has never been there before.

Communication designs that answers the question before anyone asks it.

Every design graphic I built had the same requirement: work unattended, at distance, in a crowd, in weather, for someone who has never been there before.

A communication design that answers the question before anyone asks it.

I used communication design to solve an operations problem

SPECIALTY
DRINK MENUS

During regatta season, the club runs on tickets, not tabs, which means the menu isn’t a list; it’s a pricing interface. Guests have to convert tickets to drinks in their heads, in line, in a crowd.

So price anchors the top of each column and every drink gets an illustration. You can point at what you want without knowing what it’s called. Behind a bar that deep in a regatta weekend, that’s the difference between a line that moves and one that doesn’t.

During regatta season, the club runs on tickets, not tabs, which means the menu isn’t a list; it’s a pricing interface. Guests have to convert tickets to drinks in their heads, in line, in a crowd.

So price anchors the top of each column and every drink gets an illustration. You can point at what you want without knowing what it’s called. Behind a bar that deep in a regatta weekend, that’s the difference between a line that moves and one that doesn’t.

SIGNATURE DRINK MENUS

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