Web
Identity
DESIGN IS COOL Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been drawing or doing something with visual art. Whether it was crayons, play dough, pencils, or Legos; creative play was a part of my growing up. My parents were great. They continuosly encouraged my creativity and encouraged me to keep at it.
During high school, I took art every year. By my senior year, I knew I wanted to get into a career that was creative, but I also knew being a starving artist was not for me. One day, my brother told me about a friend of his who was a graphic designer. I thought that sounded cool and remembered all the fun the two guys from the ’80s show “Thirty Something” seem to have (and they seemed to get paid too). So I went to their design studio to check it out and I got hooked. The environment, the work, the tools; I wanted to be a graphic designer.
In college, I entered the design program at the University of Memphis and began taking steps towards achieving my goal. About the same time a new thing called the Internet and something called Flash came about and my world was changed. Interactive design was it. I was drawn to the left-brain / right brain of interactive design and seemed to catch on to it pretty well.
After graduation and during my first job as an art director for the Rutland Group, I began doing more and more web design and development. Over the years, I have moved further into the web design and development area, but still maintain skills in print and indentity development. I will always be a graphic designer; regardless of the medium.
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity."
Plato