Victory CityCreative Director, Designer and Creative Spark
Jan. 2007Portland, Oregon AreaCreative Director, Designer, and Art Director
Deliver elegant, elite solutions to most challenging design problems of today and tomorrow. Services include brand identity, iconography, logo marks, typography, digital design, UX, catalog design, advertising, typography, font design, vision decks, branded environments, and environmental design - Giving talks, presentations and holding workshops. Corporate clients include Adobe, adidas, Bridgetech, Burgerville, Danner Boots, Fort George Brewery, Jantzen, Jive Software, Keen Footwear, Newsweek, Nike, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Select Oils, Starbucks, and Quicksilver. Agency clients include AKQA, Big Giant, Kamp Grizzly, Liquid Agency, Plazm Media, Roundhouse, and Wieden+Kennedy.
• Established reputation as clutch creative problem solver by applying transferable creative knowledge to solve abstract, nuanced, deep, and specialized challenges, often in areas of zero-expertise.
• Delivered penetrating results by leveraging critical thinking and commitment to curiosity with desire for deep understanding to drive thousands of hours of creative exploration.
• Redesigned iconic Danner Boots Logo and created versatile design system that centered around product innovation, which increased production efficiency.
• Designed 100+ identity marks currently in use.
• Conceptualized and produced 20+ proprietary corporate font families for some of the world’s most prominent brands.