About
I am a graphic designer native to the Los Angeles area. I spent most of my life as a musician and singer-songwriter and, yes, as a bartender and waiter—oh yeah, welcome to L.A. I have always had a love of design and photography, particularly in advertising applications. I had planned to pursue that path right out of high school, but I kept getting suckered back into the mid ’70s and ’80s Los Angeles rock ’n’ roll scene.
In the ’90s, my career interests slowly began to shift from music to graphic arts. Then a series of events in 2000 afforded me the chance to pursue a career in design. I buckled down and spent three years studying graphic and multimedia design—yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks! I emerged from my studies as a well-rounded designer and have now been working in print professionally for five years.
I am proficient in Adobe’s Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash platforms as well as QuarkXpress and a variety of other graphic programs and applications. I will always be a bit of a print junky—I love the way type works on a page as well as its tangibility and tactile feeling in the hand. That said, with advances in Flash and CSS opening doors to actualizing print sensibilities on the screen, Web design has become increasingly attractive to me.