There are destination people and journey people—I am the latter.

I work alongside teams as a creative partner — sometimes leading, sometimes making, keeping the work steady and clear.

I’ve been a designer and creative director since before I knew those words existed. I’ve always loved making things — drawing, building, rearranging, photographing, organizing — and I’m instinctively drawn to others who create. Makers recognize makers.

I like the long way around. Small towns. Handmade signs. Artist-built environments that feel slightly improbable and completely personal. I often arrive after the artist is gone. What’s left is the work — sometimes weathered, sometimes misunderstood, sometimes dismissed as simple or crude.

That’s exactly what draws me in.

Spending time on backroads has shaped how I think about design. When you look closely at handmade environments, you start to see the structure underneath — the logic, the persistence, the internal system holding it all together. I bring that same lens to creative work. I’m interested in what holds up. What’s intentional. What can evolve without falling apart.

I document those places so others can find them, understand where they came from — when that story can still be traced — and see them as part of a larger creative conversation. I’ve found that self-taught artists are often dismissed too quickly. I’m drawn to the ones who build simply because they need to.

I teach because I love being around people who are figuring things out. Students don’t let you hide behind jargon. They ask the real questions. Being named an AIGA Fellow in 2024 meant something because it felt like a nod from a community that values craft and curiosity.

I will always love a good stretch of a blue highway.