brand & visual designer
Creative director and multidisciplinary designer with 20+ years of experience building brand, visual, and digital experiences for nonprofits, agencies, and cultural organizations. Experienced in art direction, storytelling, visual systems, UI/UX, and experiential thinking, with a strong interest in the intersection of design, communication, performance, and human experience.
EXPERIENCE
(references proudly furnished upon request)
ABOUT
Rootid Nonprofit Communications | remote
Design Director April 2020 - current
Freelance Visual Design and Art Direction
Art Director, Visual Designer
January 2002 - current
Comrade | Oakland, CA
Senior Art Director, 2012 -2013
Publicis | San Franciso, CA
Senior Interactive Art Director
2004 - 2005
EVB | San Franciso, CA
Art Director/Visual Designer
Sept 2000 - 2002
Nettmedia/Nettwerk Records | New York, NY
Art Director/Visual Designer
May 1998 - 2000
frog design | San Franciso, CA
Interactive Designer
August 1996 - May 1998
E Greetings | San Franciso, CA
Interactive and Print Designer
June 1995 - July 1996
TEACHING
Unversity of California, Davis
Design Department, Undergraduate
Instructor/Lecturer
Design 152B: Visual Communications; Messaging Campaigns
Instructor for Design 133b Internet and Interactivity, the first
internet design class in the UC Davis design department.
San Francisco State University
Multimedia Studies Program
Instructor/Lecturer
Information Design for the Web
Academy of Art
Guest Speaker
Usability directed study for Interactive Design
EDUCATION
The New School
Certificate, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice in Design, 2022
Parsons School of Design
M.F.A. Design and Technology, May 2000
University of California, Davis
B.S. Visual Communications, Environmental Design Dept. 1995
Outside of working on brands and digital experiences, I can usually be found training circus arts, traveling, cooking, overthinking typography, or tending to an expanding cast of rescued animals.