A little bit about me...

I'm a designer of graphics, doodler of fine art, lover of penguins, and enjoyer of slow walks on beaches, because running on sand is exhausting. I was extremely fortunate to have a young start with the web and, because of it, my life can thus far be best described as a series of fairly fantastic opportunities that have lead into one another.

Currently, my time is spent finishing my degree in business while pursuing a dream of law school, as well as working with amazing companies as a designer and marketing consultant. In my free time, I enjoy soaking up as much information as I can online (I'm sort of an info-junkie), playing my guitar, and working with a fantastic local charity, called CoachArt, which has allowed me the privilege of volunteering as an art and music mentor for children facing various chronic illnesses.

Some of my work...

Though much of my earlier work history revolved around information architecture, marketing, search engine optimization, and user-experience design, more recently I have been focusing on graphic design and am known mostly for my infographics, which allow me to combine my love for design with my love for research and number crunching. While I finish designing my website, you can view a selection of my recent work below. Enjoy!

Infographics

• The Economics of Pet Ownership
  Created for MyGofer.com.
• Fashion Week Salaries
  A new type of style done for Payscale.com's Fashion Week coverage.
• CEO Pay: Put Into Perspective
  Designed for Payscale.com to examine current salary descrepencies among the Fortune 50 companies.
• Salary Science
  Designed for WIRED Magazine's Jim Hopkinson to promote his book, Salary Tutor, this visualizes the relationship between salary and happiness. It successfully increased traffic to the client's site by 4,300% as it was scooped up by sites like LifeHacker.com.
• Pet-Travel Safety
  Developed for my primary client, Hipmunk.com, this infographic breaks down decades' worth of incident reports to investigate the true risk of traveling with your pet. In the end, we discover that not only is it extremely safe to fly with your pet, it is safer than going to the restroom.
• History of Baggage Fees
  A visual timeline of baggage fees within the airline industry.
• The Ultimate Baggage Fee Revenue Timeline
  This visualization encompasses nearly two decades worth of financial reports submitted by airlines and illustrates the recent surge in revenues experienced by airlines.

Print Design

• Startup Mixology 2011 Postcard
  Photoshopped landmark for an event promotion. CLICK HERE to watch a time-lapse of this postcard's creation!
• Greetings from Foggy San Francisco! Postcard
  Promotional postcard for some of Hipmunk's most loyal customers.

Illustration, Paint, and Misc.

• Pengbot
  A polymer-clay robot penguin based on a sketch of mine.
• Hipster Snake
  Pencil and ink.
• Heart Giraffe
  An attempt to cheer up a friend who really likes giraffes.
• Sunbathing Vintage Giraffe
  Ink and watercolor of a vintage giraffe relaxing at the beach.
• The Making of a Legend
  Step by step layering of Stephen Colbert's face created for a recursive style t-shirt design that several hundred people downloaded prior to 2010's Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C.
• Monopoly-style Greeting Card
  Long story.
• Revised Baggage Screening Manual
  Poking fun at Homeland Security's recent retiring of their color coded system.
• How to Make a Shark out of Clay
  A time-lapse video I did in 2007 where I create a clay shark from scratch.