I am a designer and artist in the Seattle area. I graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle in 1997 and have been working ever since. I'm currently an Interactive Art Director at Cypress Consulting work with clients such as AT&T Russell Investments, and Children's Hospital, but I always keep an eye out for interesting side projects and new design challenges.

Here is a selection of work that I’ve done over the years and am most proud of. It also has a few personal/side projects I had a lot of fun doing while helping friends out. Because of frog design’s non-disclosure agreement (NDA) I am not able to show a lot of the projects I have worked on at frog, but hope to be able to soon.
My wife, as an entertainer, needed a website to showcase her burlesque, modeling, producing, and singing. It also had to be a place for fans and producers looking for talent to come and get more of the latest information about her. This also made it easier for her to submit to competitions by having a URL to submit, instead of filling out forms.
This was updating the frog design free iPhone app with more features, fast response time, and a better user experience. Also there was the creation of the companion web app, that synced with your iPhone tvChatter usage. Bringing the tvChatter experience to multiple screens.
Scene 2 Act 1:<br/>Ben and friends at the Mall Scene 3 Act 2:<br/>Tony at his coffee shop Introduction Scene<br/>Melissa Windows Media Market wanted a demo to showcase future possibilities of their mobile marketing platform. They wanted to tell their story of where this platform could be taken and used by companies and their targeted customers. We created a teenager, his parent, and a business owner to show how they all could use the platform, over 8 scenes in 3 acts, as well as how each one interacts with each other and makes their lives easier when taking advantage of this platform. I helped with creating the illustrations and did the Flash animation for all the scenes, to be taken into Flash Builder to create the full demo.
Scene 1 Act 1:<br/>Ben using his phone at the train stop Scene 1 Act 1:<br/>Ben's phone Scene 1 Act 2:<br/>Melissa at Tony's coffee shop Scene 1 Act 2:<br/>Melissa's phone Scene 3 Act 2:<br/>Tony's phone
Sirena Homepage Sirena Beverage Gallery Sirena Introduction Video This site showcased the latest innovation in home-brew espresso-markers, the Starbucks Sirena Espresso Machine. Using streaming video to help consumers connect with the product through rich product storytelling and product demonstration techniques, it also expanded upon the visual style guides I created developed for the Sirena teaser campaign.

Awards:
Adobe Site of the Day: 1.16.08
The American Design Awards Monthly Design Contest: Platinum Accolade, August 2007
Sirena Homepage Sirena Project Features Details Sirena Beverage Gallery with Video Sirena Beverage Details Sirena Featured Accessories
This was a teaser for the up coming Starbucks Sirena Espresso Machine to premiered at the 2007 Food and Wine Classic in Aspen. It also gave a sneak peak before it’s 2007 holiday release, to hopefully future users. There was an email and print campaign that helped drive customers to the site. I was art director for the photo shoot, selected the music, created the video and developed the site.
Phase 1: Orange<br/>Homepage Phase 2: Raspberry<br/>Homepage Phase 3: Blueberry<br/>Homepage Let’s Meet at Starbucks was Starbucks 2007 summer campaign where users can find a Starbucks store, find an event in their area, create invites and see the latest summer beverages. Events were updated by regional stores throughout summer and beverages changed every month, which the site the change to match that beverage offering. There was also a myspace.com page that match the beverage offering.

Awards:
Adobe Site of the Day: 6.27.2007
W3 Awards: Sliver Award
The American Design Awards Monthly Design Contest: Platinum Accolade, August 2007
Phase 1: Orange<br/>Featured Beverages Phase 1: Orange<br/>Beverage Details Phase 2: Raspberry<br/>Find a Starbucks Near You Phase 2: Raspberry<br/>Create an Invite Phase 3: Blueberry<br/>Select Invite Background Phase 3: Blueberry<br/>Personalized Invite
Find Your Anwser Choose to Stand Out In the crowded royalty-free stock photography business, communicating a competitive point of difference can be very difficult. These two direct mail pieces, Find Your Answer and Choose to Stand Out, lead with photography to let customers know there is such a thing as high-quality, original royalty-free imagery, and that the answer to their creative challenges can be found at Getty Images. The piece was produced in six languages.

Awards:
2006 Graphic Design Award
Find Your Anwser Find Your Anwser - DM Backing Find Your Anwser - DM Inside Choose to Stand Out Choose to Stand Out - DM Backing Choose to Stand Out - DM Inside
Change Me - website<br/>Find Out More About Change Me Change Me - website<br/>Intro Change Me - Direct Mail Presented by Getty Images, Change Me was an open conversation that brought people together to share ideas through powerful imagery. This was a global campaign, in six languages, which spanned across web, email, multiple direct mail pieces, magazine ads, posters, banners, handouts at events, and customized invitations.

Awards:
The 2007 Seattle Show: Interactive – Silver
2006 American Graphic Design Award
2006 Inhouse Design Award: Graphic Design USA (web)
2006 Inhouse Design Award: Graphic Design USA (print)
Change Me - Postcard Change Me - Event Slideshow Change Me - Direct Mail Change Me - website<br/>Intro Change Me - website<br/>homepage
Phase 1<br/>Website Homepage Phase 2<br/>Website Homepage Phase 3<br/>Website Homepage The Next Big Idea was a worldwide competition to create a 60-second video using Getty Images content. Online voting selected the winners and their films were showcased at RES Media-sponsored events around the globe. This three-phase project spread over one year of development, updates, in six languages, and major site redesigns for each phase (including supplementary email, print and event materials). You can view the third and final phase.

Awards: 2006 Inhouse Design Award: Graphic Design USA (web)
Phase 1<br/>RES magazine advertisement Phase 1<br/>Website Homepage Phase 2<br/>magazine advertisement Phase 2<br/>Website Film Details Phase 3<br/>AIGA Event Signage Phase 3<br/>Website Website Grand-Prize Winner & Finalist List
Sydni's Wig Scott's Rooster Mask
These were illustrations I did for my wife and I, for our wedding site and invites we sent out to friends and family. A quick, fun way to show our personalities.
Business Card Postcard
The lifeblood of any good tattoo studio is word-of-mouth referrals, but some decent promotional materials don’t hurt. I designed these business cards and postcards to look as good as the work my tattoo artist has done on me and his other loyal customers.
I worked my good friend Chris Marshall (Simple Machine) to create a logo/brand for the Georgetown Music Fest. The logo was used on the site, posters, shirts, ads, banner, etc... The logo was modeled after the clock tower in Georgetown and the multiple speakers the festival requires.
Shirt Graphic Shirt Placement
This shirt was sold at a fundraiser to help my friend Cat pay for some of her ever growing medical costs from battling breast cancer.
Georgetown Music Fest 2007 Website
Georgetown Music Fest showcased 47 local Northwest bands during a sun and beer filled weekend. This site has all the who, what, where and when about he event and was a large group effort. Background illustration by Sei Ray Ho, Tyler Stout’s poster design, Sven Liden’s video creation and coding by Simple Machine. It was a tight deadline, but a great project to design.
myspace.com Evergreen Page Downloadable Wallpaper 1 Downloadable Wallpaper 2
When Starbucks wasn’t showcasing a promotion on myspace, this became the home page. Users can connect with other friends of Starbucks, leave comments and download wallpapers created with core Starbucks art.
Outdoor Banner 1 Outdoor Banner 2 Outdoor Banner 3 Window Cling
These banners and window clings were used to show Getty Images presence at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, while reinforcing their position as a premiere entertainment photographic agency. There also was signage to let the celebrities know where the Getty Images Portrait Studio was located.
This is where I got to play around with my illustration skills and a fun little last minute project. This iron-on graphic, created only using Getty Images content ,was used as an end-of-year gift to customers. This design was one of three iron-ons included in a packet with a blank shirt.
Designed and silk screened for a good friend’s bachelor party. If you don’t understand it, you weren’t there. A nice shirt to wear while wearing fake moustaches while curling.
The Sports Arena website was a central location for Getty Images to showcase their featured sporting event coverage. In 2006, the site provided highlights and links to deep coverage of the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2006 World Cup in Germany. I was responsible for the evolution of the site as each event unfolded.

Awards:
2006 Inhouse Design Award: Graphic Design USA
Event Poster 1 Event Poster 2
The Cannes 2005 – Young Creative Competition is held annually at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, to celebrate and challenge some of the best up-and-coming creative talent in the world. These two “inspirational” posters were hung throughout the competition facilities.
This site, along with its companion, hardcover book was a meaningful way to put the best images and stories of 2004 in front of Getty Images editorial customers. A reminder of the good and bad that the world experienced in that year, this site was also a look at the work of the talented photographers who were on the spot to capture it all. On top of doing the visual design, I also did all the back-end Flash development.
This shirt design was for the birthday party of my friends Marshall and Gary, which they share the same day of birth.
To announce (and show off) the best of Stone+, a new Getty Images collection, this website was created. It used creatively focused messaging and powerful imagery to illustrate what made this high-end rights-managed collection stand apart.
A self-playing, animated gallery with original music, this short trailer used broad, perhaps unexpected, conceptual applications to showcase sports imagery and film from Getty Images. With a fluid experience that’s visually engaging, the short also provides viewers with clear simple access to the content featured in the piece. Customer response was extremely positive to the trailer, which support five languages. I build the Flash video and timing with the music.

Awards:
2004 Graphic Design USA Awards for excellence in communications and graphic design
Showcasing some of the best destination imagery and film from Getty Images, this site connected with a natural urge to travel and visually compared the breath of the collection to the expanse of the Earth and its civilizations.
The stories and images of 2003 were on display in this website. Editorial customers had many options on how to view the content they needed for their jobs and were exposed to other imagery they may not have known could come from Getty. On top of doing the visual design, I also did all the back-end Flash development.

Awards:
2004 Graphic Design USA Awards for excellence in communications and graphic design
Look Beyond the Immediate showed the Getty Images customer what actually goes into a image that they might license and use. Behind-the-scenes features from the people who were there helped illustrated the art direction, creative research, and award-winning talent that makes a good idea into a great image.
To showcase some of the best footage from Image Bank Films by Getty Images, No Compromise was created. This website provided a look behind the curtain to reveal the people and planning that it took to create these unique film clips.

Awards:
2003 American Graphic Design Award