Espresso & croissant.
A self-propelled designer and artist/painter that observes and explores everything.
Paints skate decks for fun.
Loves analog tech, electrics, keyboards, type design, and board sports.
Projects
Pulled in by Blackmouth Design to design, source earth friendly materials, find suppliers, work with 3d modeler, present concepts to Adidas team, work to produce and assemble on accelerated timeline.
Nationwide stores.
Exhibitions
Shared skate deck art show supporting local charitable projects including community skate parks.
18 custom-painted skate decks in a solo display for 60 days.
Shared skate deck Art Benefit show supporting local park initiatives for neighborhood kids and families. 100% of proceeds donated.
First shared install of my 8 debut art decks in an art space with Location Skate Shop along with other deck artists from the Pacific Northwest.
Speaking
A web typography educational symposium at Emily-Carr University of Art & Design with several well-known industry speakers.
Gave a short talk about the pitfalls of web typography technology and methods to avoid them.
Features
Featured section on my skate deck art and background.
Book by Matt Berger, featuring callout by Nick Offerman.
Work Experience
Design and development agency, collaborating with others to work on projects for the UN, Truthout, and several smaller web projects, as well as industrial and technical design and drawing for large retail firms such as Adidas, Nordstrom, T-Mobile.
Frequently work in production shops crafting physical solutions for retail projects.
Have designed several airstream conversions, for Adidas and T-Mobile, along with mobile display pop up shops.
The Cream Co web site is used to sell my fine artwork.
Design for the famous Newsvine, integrated its tech into other sister sites.
A collaborative design agency with skills including brand design, web design & development, print design, and package design.
A little less formal in later years, as an agency but was still involved for several years with type education via TypeCon, including conference talks.
Education
Took all classes for an Associates degree in Science, Philisophy, & Literature.
Straight out of HS I took a certificate program in computer drafting and design, tinkered with electrical department, too, then realized that I tended to draw pictures on top of my class-leading architectural drawings. Hmm. Art!