experience

2000-present
The Creative Common Good™ Founder / Design Director
Lead on projects that are predominantly centered around individual or small scale branding projects, portfolio sites, or business collateral. Clients include Peggy Sirota, BCBG, Gaiam, CC Genesis, FourStar Development Group, Raleigh Bicycles, Conversive, Lawernce Azzerad Design, Michaela Scherrer, Marla Rutherford, and many, many more.

2005-present
Chadwick Studio Senior Designer
Working for designer Don Chadwick, involved in the development of contract furniture projects from concept, material selection, form refinement through to the presentation renderings and models. Clients include Herman Miller, Knoll, OXO, and Boeing.

2004
Richard Holbrook - Pasadena, CA Brand Analysis / Industrial Designer (Contractor)
Lead on the Brand Image Analysis for Gunlocke (a contract office furniture company) that helped lead to the creation of 3 long term, royalty based design contracts for Richard Holbrook. Lead designer on GLS, a side chair concept project whose goal was to supply Gunlocke with a set of four distinct chair designs (that shared a common kit of parts) that would reinvigorate their failing chair line. Gunlocke optioned the line of chairs for a 2005 debut at Neo-Con.

2004
Rios Clementi Hale Studios - Los Angeles, CA Graphic / Interactive Designer (Contractor)
Design development and usability studies created in conjunction with Frank Clementi and Matt Richards.
RCH Studios, with 20 prolific years of cross-disciplinary work, was posed with the challenge of how to create a portfolio site that would show how their projects defy strict categorization.

2002
Madeinspace / April Greiman - Los Angeles, CA Graphic / Interactive Designer
Collaborative works including: a new web identity for SCI-Arc (in conjunction with Eric Owen Moss, Ming Fung, Chris Genik, and Michael Rotundi), a new logo and resultant motion identity system for Samitaur Constructs, "AG" signature pens for ACME Pen Company and a good deal of new components to the (previous) madeinspace.la web site.

1999-2000
workshop / Tim Cozzens - Chicago, IL Design and Fabrication
Workshop/Tim Cozzens is a custom woodworking studio operated by master woodworker Tim Cozzens.
Job description ranged from rough cutting timber to finish sanding, including nearly all stages of building in between.

1998
Climbing Magazine - Carbondale, CO Editorial Staff / Intern
Proofing and editing drafts of contributing editor’s submissions, compiling articles for upcoming publications, and compiling and editing "Letters to the Editor.

education

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
BS, Environmental Design, awarded with Distinction

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Interior Architecture Program / Grad Seminar

University of Montana, Missoula, MT
BA, Comparative Literature / Theory

exhibitions

The Neoteric Conjunctive - New Architecture and Environmental Design Los Angeles, CA Sept - Oct 2004
Japanese American Cultural Center, George J. Doizaki Gallery

Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan, Italy 2004
Nomad Lamp shown in the Salone Satellite

2 x 8 : Groundworks, A + D MuseumLos Angeles Feb - April 2004
A showcase of LA's top design / archtecture students as deemed by areas 10 schools.

ACADIA Conference (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) Pomona, CA 2002
awards

Takafuji International Art Award
Awarded for students exhibiting outstanding talent in the field of environmental art.
Received award in Tokyo, Japan

ACCD Product Development Grant
$5000 towards the development of a light.

Full scholarship to Art Center College of Design
A merit based scholarship awarded for performance and presentation of work.

Winner of the 2002 Design Charrette AIA-LA Interiors Committee
The charrette was termed "Think DMV Think" - rethinking the DMV.

Citation for Design AIA-PF "Out of the Box"
Chosen from an international field of entrants.