Hey there,
I started as a guy who designed graphics for skateboard decks and tee shirts and now my I spend my time visualizing brands’ digital campaigns, websites, identities, strategies, and general online presence.
I have worked freelance and collaborated with countless brands, and a few in-house, one of which I helped build the foundation and another you may have heard of. I’m now working as an Art Director at Aya Healthcare, the leading staffing agency in the healthcare industry.
Download my resume here.
“Nice guy, tries hard, great in the room.”
THINGS I DO
Design: Product, Interface, Identity, Creative and Art Direction, Content Creation, Visual Systems
Vision: Storytelling, Briefing, Editorial, Research, Storyboarding, Concepting (why is that not a real word).
Why: I do what I do because ever since I learned what graphic design was (Photoshop 101 in my junior year of high school) I was intent on making a career out of putting words and meaning to photos and videos.
I love to work with brands who not only claim to be authentic, but are smart enough to actually operate authentically. I’m compassionate, honest, and always think a step ahead. And I know the difference between an apostrophe and the abbreviation for a foot: a ' is not an ’.
OTHER STUFF
→ My family is from Alaska but I grew up in Southern California, and haven’t found a reason to leave, yet.
→ I spent the majority of my free time in my childhood and teens skateboarding, drawing tech packs for sneakers, and playing hockey.
→ I created a print magazine about the culture and essence of hockey. Yes, being a digital design professional based in California who makes a print magazine about a somewhat niche sport is odd, but I like to hold books, booklets, magazines, posters and other things made from paper. And it turns out there are cultists who agree, and buy it.
→ Possibly related to my thing with printed stuff, I own a Risograph RN2030ui digital duplicator with five color drums (Japanese digital screen printer with no squeegee). Huge pain, but everything that goes through it it looks killer.
→ I grew up with dogs, but due to a technicality I now have two twin cats. They’re cool though.
→ I have about 500 vinyl records. Fleetwood Mac is objectively the best band of all time.