Aw, shit. You found me. I probably should have purchased a wittier domain name; but you're here now— Welcome.

I've been working in the graphic arts and design for awhile now. I'll share some pieces of the work I made, tried to make, iterations I tried to push onto clients, and opinions I've formed about the graphic arts.

In college, I drew Univers type at about 13 points for my Intro to Typography class at Cal State. That was hard. I also used Letraset® press-on type, which was also tedious, but satisfying to see dark type on a page. I do, however, tend to make a lot of typsos. That same year, my cohort of art students transitioned to typesetting via Photoshop. This corresponded with the emergence of the Grunge movement in typography. My International Style-oriented instructors frowned at the reckless application of type, but to me— it was dynamic, new, and fresh.

The instructors were predictably right. The principles that International Style espouses are rock-solid and hard to fuck up: Clarity, organization, application of a grid, and legibility are always keen adjectives to a well-designed page, screen, product.

But the late 80s (beginning with work being produced in Califonia) and stretching to the 90s was just so wildly different. It allowed for a more expressive quality to emerge from the Swiss-style. Paraphrasing David Carson— Just because it’s clear, doesn’t mean it communicates.

I think there’s merit to a wide array of solutions and styles, and the solutions should be content-driven. The grunge aesthetic, while not always appropriate, brought with it a rich, dense, painterly-composition to page-layouts that when applied-well, is just really beautiful.

These days, grunge just communicates ‘90s’ and is hard to read. Conundrum.

Anyway, this site represents the areas of design I've spent time with: Print, web, publication, advertising, and other allied-areas of visual practice. Some are the final design as they went out into the world, some are unused-iterations, others are personal endeavours.

Built with HTML, CSS, and a dash of Javascript; Works and
concepts completed between the 20th and 21st centuries.