born: Springfield, MO, USA
resides: Hamilton, New Zealand
travel: extensive travel stateside [as child and adult] in the now
discontinued fuel-efficient Geo Metro; abroad: weekends/weeks to countries
neighboring Belgium
education:
Postgraduate [MA] Transmedia, Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium
BA Art [focus: Print Graphic Design] Missouri Southern State University,
Joplin, MO, USA
BA English, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, USA
employment:
Graphics/Digital Tutor, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Freelance Designer, Belgium and USA
Tellme Networks, Mountain View, CA, USA
GalvinKemper [now KGB], Cincinnati, OH, USA
Leggett & Platt, Carthage, MO, USA
I'm a print-trained graphic designer from a small Midwestern college [hole on strap of Bible belt] who ended up in a post-graduate program in Belgium after several years of bland website and logo making. I'm not really commercially minded or even overly design focused; I simply try to use my tools of trade to create output. For me personally, nothing has to be ground-shaking to be considered space/place/art worthy, in fact it can only be a nudge in the ribs, a tap on the shoulder or something in my gut that I have to spill out.
Three continents later, I'm currently exploring more formal ways of research in relation to my own arts-design practice and getting ready to revive a successful internal venture of a few years back in a new country with new influences beginning on a new birthday. [something is bound to be brewing]