Photo taken by Lemia Bodden

As a kid I was always painting, sketching or sculpting – or taking care of the family’s farm animals and pets – always using my hands and eyes to explore the world. I’ve always enjoyed making things, and even more so, making things pretty.

In 2006, I moved from the Bay Area to New York City to jumpstart my career as a designer and set out on a long and winding creative road. I quickly found myself creative directing a start-up and eventually, afterwards, embracing a somewhat bohemian lifestyle as a freelancer: designing, photographing and developing ideas into engaging experiences and products!

I’ve been fortunate to have worked with a great wealth of amazing people, and actively engage the nearby communities to gather a greater understanding of how things work, and in turn, problem solving ways to improve how these things work. Past lives Paths I continue to explore include activism (social justice and environment for the betterment of the human experience), bicycling, music, and travel, each of which help to expand my skillsets and perspective on work.

To me, life is learning, and work is applying what I’ve learned to help improve others’ lives!

About this Website

This website somewhat serves as my digital playground, sharpening stone for my skills, and, a place for me to expand and refine an evolving aesthetic.

I like to write, a lot, but never really find the time to organize my thoughts properly. Let’s just say that blogging is my perpetual resolution!

Aside, through this site, you’ll see a comprehensive representation of my work – minus my earliest design projects from when I was a student designer at UC Davis from 2001-2005 (coming soon!) – and a testing ground for new web technologies.

This site was built to be viewed in modern, standards-compliant browsers (like Chrome or Firefox), as those browsers provide adequate support for CSS3 and HTML5. I’ve chosen not to support Internet Explorer 8 and earlier; though, clients should expect that any web development I commit to for them will be fully cross-compatible. For this website, browser choice may limit some visitors’ experiences, but as ux designers say, designing to accommodate everyone’s needs will only make everyone unhappy with the end product.

Credits

Designing and developing this site required a few resources around the web, including: WordPress, Nathan Staine’s bare-bones Starker’s Theme, Nick Stackenburg’s JQuery Lightview (really the most comprehensive lightbox out there, also available in script.aculo.us), Orman Clark’s Slides Carousel, Google Libraries API and JQuery. Licensed typefaces administered through @font-face include the Canadatype’s Gibson and Latinotype’s Sanchez families.

Get in Touch!

I welcome your feedback on this website, and welcome everyone to get in touch either to inquire about working with me, or to simply to introduce themselves, admirers or not. :c)