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MY WORK
The work I have shown you above is just a small part that I am particularly proud of. I didn't want to make this page super long and tedious so if you are curious to see more, feel free to reach out.
ABOUT ME
I’m a designer with 20 years of experience in brand, product design, and creative direction. I have an international reputation for creating warm, smart, and effective design for a variety of companies in technology and publishing. Among these is Abstract (acq. Adobe), which I co-founded in 2014. I’m head of brand at Modern Treasury.
I also write and speak about design. Several of my essays and lectures are assigned in design classrooms around the world and act as foundational texts in the web design industry, including Everything Easy is Hard Again, The Web’s Grain, and What Screens Want. In 2012, I wrote, illustrated, and published The Shape of Design.
WRITING
2018
Everything Easy is Hard Again
Presented at Awwwards Conference in Berlin, Germany
A talk about longevity in technology: can a person have 20 years of experience or five years, repeated four times?
2015
The Web’s Grain
Presented at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand
Is there deeper understanding in using a browser’s built-in affordances to guide web design decisions?
2013
What Screens Want
Presented at Build in Belfast, N. Ireland
Digital’s medium is the screen. What’s does it mean to natively design for this canvas?
2012
The Shape of Design
Purchase at Amazon or BuyOlympia (Support Indie!)
A little philosophical handbook about design and making things for others that focuses on the Why questions.
WOrk Experience
2022-Now
Head of Brand at Modern Treasury
NYC/SF & Remote
Establishing the creative vision and visual tone for the fintech unicorn. Ship-steering, team-building, and strategic design swash-buckling.
2020-2022
Creative Director at Fictive Kin
New York, NY & Remote
Setting creative vision, providing design leadership, establishing process, and managing client relationships, while participating as an IC at a leading digital agency whose clients include Sweetgreen, Ogilvy, National Geographic, TripAdvisor, and Samsung.
2017-2020
Self-employed Designer
New York, NY
Design and consulting for early stage startups and established leaders at the intersection of brand and digital product. Clients included: Etsy, Meetup, Kaplan, Abstract, and many YC startups.
2014-2017
Co-founder at Abstract
New York, NY & Remote
The traditional set of founder responsibilities: setting vision, creating product definition, fundraising, and company leadership. Lead design across brand and product, and helped define the company’s go-to-market approach.
2001–2014
Self-employed Designer
Portland, OR & New York, NY
Product design, web design, publication design, branding, and illustration. Clients include: Nike, Microsoft, NPR, Adobe, Facebook, WIRED, Bloomberg Businessweek, O’Reilly Media, The Atlantic, and Justin Bieber (sorta).