About
As a kid who grew up surrounded by crayons, coloring books, building blocks, Tinker Toys, and my father’s vast workshop, I always felt like I was destined to be an artist and a maker of things. One of my earliest memories involves hearing a rhyme that my grandmother made up about all of the “pictures on the wall” that I would go on to create some day. If not literally ON the wall, at least hanging FROM a wall!
Fueled by early obsessions with comic books, stickers, album covers and band logos (all of which are still heavy influences my sensibilities today) I was well on my way to figuring out the immensely powerful role of images as story tellers. Following a brief detour studying psychology, history and video production in college, I returned to art via a job in advertising, which seemed like THE place to meld all of my influences together.
Sliding into the graphics side of the business just a few years before the arrival of our first Macs was a fortunate opportunity to learn how to do things the old fashioned way; speccing type, paste-ups and mechanicals, using an airbrush, and time spent watching color separators and printing press operators bring that work to completion. This hands-on experience was an enormous asset when computers finally put the means of production firmly into the hands of the artists ourselves.
In the subsequent years I’ve applied and further honed my skills in the sports, music, publishing, beverage, and sports-entertainment industries, but the sum of these experiences all converged perfectly in 2008 when I co-founded and art directed my own arts+culture+lifestyle magazine, which ran until 2020. The pride in what we accomplished artistically, and the creative collaborations over those eleven years is priceless.
As the latest chapter of my creative journey unfolds, I look forward to that next great creative challenge, client, and collaboration.