I am best known as a graphic designer who has an uncanny ability for revitalizing brands, creating breakthrough visual communication, and telling culturally provocative stories in ways that don’t look or feel like advertising — at the speed and scale of global advertising. I got my first taste of this working for Brian Collins at the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy where I redesigned the One Club identity and cut my teeth on campaigns for IBM, Motorola and AT&T. I left to start my first studio in Los Angeles with designer Conny Purtill, producing books like Beautiful Losers and exhibitions like Nike’s Genealogy of Speed. Later, I freelanced for W+K Portland in the Dan Wieden days, made my way to Boston to work for Robert Wong and Pete Favat at Arnold, returned to Los Angeles to make crazy work for MGM Resorts and Kia Motors at DavidAngelo&Goliath, then landed in Boulder to work on the Pizza Turnaround campaign for Domino’s under Rob Reilly, Andrew Keller and Jeff Benjamin at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. I left my Executive Design Director job at CP+B to start my first agency, Made, with ad legend Dave Schiff, creative technologist Scott Prindle, and funder/mentor Alex Bogusky. I have also worked in-house as CCO for global phone accessory startup Popsockets where I helped build out an in-house creative agency and content studio.

Over the last 25+ years, my work has been recognized by the ANDY, ADDY, AIGA 365, AIGA 50 Covers, Art Directors Club, the California Design Biennial, Cannes, Clio, Dieline, fwa, London International, One Show, One Show Design and One Show Interactive awards. My work and the agencies I’ve started have been featured in The New York Times, AdAge, Adweek, The Drum, Metropolis, Eye Magazine, as well as numerous design anthologies. I have been a visiting design instructor at the UCLA Dept. of Architecture, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). I studied international affairs and economics as an undergraduate at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and later found my way into the Graphic Design MFA program at CalArts.

Based in Boulder, Colorado, I love being a Little League dad, collaborating with plants in the garden, cooking delicious things for my friends and family, being immersed in contemporary art and architecture, and running and hiking pretty much everywhere.