About

     

 

 

 

 

With a foundation in fine arts, I use my creativity and skills to create designs that are imaginative, outside of the box, and completely unique. The majority of my work starts out hand drawn and then digitized. I strive for originality and a distinct style.       

My Journey into graphic design began at a young age when I discovered a love of drawing. I stuck with it all throughout K-12th grade and decided to go to art school after. I attended college at the Art Institute of Colorado for a few years and decided it wasn't for me and that I wanted to do it my own way. I started doing art shows, graffiti and commissioned murals which showed me a new side of the art scene that I was not used to being around. 

In that time I also was obsessed with skateboarding, 60's counter culture, and music. Specifically psychedelic rock and roll. Those passions lead me to such artists as Rick Griffin, Ralph Steadman, Jim Phillips, Wes Wilson, and Stanley Mouse. The concert posters and album art from that era are still some of my favorite works of art ever and I admire and am inspired the most by those artists. 

Having been involved in the music and skateboarding scene has given me an authentic understanding of both cultures and how they intertwine with each other. I owe most of the graphic jobs I've done to both scenes. 

The most important thing to me about design is originality. I feel like in today's pop culture there isn't enough of it. From movies to fashion and music it seems like we are sometimes on a re-run of someone else's original idea. I strive to always present an original concept that wasn't stolen or generated by an artificial intelligence.

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