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Music taste
As long as it's good. John Coltrane is incredible,
Cody Chesnutt makes me want to dance, Eminem
for when I want to scream, Metallica for the
same, 311, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, the
Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, on and on. |
Favorite drink
Martini. Due to legal requirements,
probably water. |
Favorite quote
Beauty pagents with glamorous furs, can you
believe what they once were?
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The Samples |
Recommended Books
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand; Jitterbug Perfume,
Tom Robbins; An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore;
Life of Pi, who wrote Life of Pi? |
Specialty?
Website layout, spacing out. |
Dream Project
Designing a high profile art museum in a world
class city. |
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How did you
become a designer?
I got some markers and notebook paper together when
I was a kid. The guys at Joyengine in Boulder helped
me out with the internship opportunity.
Where are you from originally?
All around the world.
Who were
your main influences growing up?
Frank Gehry, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Bob Ross,
artistically. My family, otherwise.
Did
you go to art school/college for design or are you
self-taught?
I took some architecture classes to keep me distracted
during college, other than that, self taught.
Any advice or tips to novice designers?
hen the going gets tough, that is a positive signal
to keep charging. I bit that quote from Victor Wooten,
who should be under the music question.
What has been the most rewarding and challenging
project you have worked on?
Since March of 2006 I've been heading up a nonprofit
organization called Above Grounds. This organization
promotes an intangible idea of community, and to
come up with original artwork and a well designed
system for representing and communicating "community"
was a good challenge. In some ways, though, being
the person that writes the copy and knows the organization
better than anyone else makes my job of communicating
the message visually much easier than if I was working
for someone else.
What is your
favorite portfolio piece? Why?
"cubes" because it's just really simple,
but the visual aspect is intriguing, I think so
anyway.
What American artist inspires
you most?
Jason Theilke, because I can find things in his
work even after I've already looked at it for hours.
Also, the guys from non-format.com, but I don't
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Accordion
portfolio
To make my portfoio tangible, I created
this unfolding hand-sized peice. |
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Bloc
It's the font I always wanted to use, super
chunky. So, I cut some squares out of other
squares. |
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Casablanca
Ink on mylar. This poster shows the irony
implicit in building a 'new indegenous town.' |
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Chautauqua
Ink on mylar. My final project for an architecture
class. The poster presents a platform designed
to sit on the open space outside of Boulder. |
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Cubes
I never claimed to be a photographer, but
this was truly a sight to behold. The red
cubes were ever so slowly moving across the
sky. |
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Flat
Earth
Try to imagine thinking the earth is flat;
then somebody tells you it's round. Wouldn't
that blow your mind? I wonder what's next. |
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joyengine
logos
During my internship at joyengine, I had plenty
of time to hone my ability to create unused
logos. A shout out to the guys at joyengine
for giving me a start. |
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Zew
logos
Shameless plug here: Zew Design is where you
can get a peice. Web and graphic design. Oh,
I did these logos, a couple are in use. |
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