Art Direction

I’ve acted as an art director on many projects and publications during the last 10 years of my career. Some projects I’ve directed my own employees and others I’ve acted as project manager and assigned tasks to outside players.

Branding

My career has been dotted with dozens of logos, brand guides and usage strategies. Please have a look at my work for a few of my favorites.

Content Strategy

Weeding down content is incredibly hard. It is particularly difficult for academics, and even tougher for government agencies. I’ve been that guy for both of those sectors. I’ve worked with large and small teams to highlight the type of content that is needed for blogs for individual professors as well as large multi agency initiatives such as the Flint Water Crisis.

Graphic Design

Graphic design is where I got my start in the creative field. I have over 20 years of design experience. That’s a long enough time to see my old stuff go out of style and then come roaring back into trend, like vinyl records and duck boots.

Photography

I’ll just say it’s more than a – developing hobby – (groans welcome). I’ve been shooting photos for the majority of my career. I’m comfortable with a variety of equipment and happy to capture in any environment. Just please don’t ask me to photograph Rudy Giuliani again.

Project Management

Project management has been the name of the game for 10 years. I’ve been given projects and asked to run with them. I enjoy making videos with other members of the team.

Web Design

I’ve been a webmaster to large websites in the past, and I’m still the webmaster of this page. I’m now at home working as a part of a web team to design new sites or revamp old ones. As a great team effort, the MSU College of Education redesigned our website using my design in 2021. We’re really proud of it.

Video Production

Planning, scripting, shooting, narrating, editing, watching, eating the popcorn, picking up the awards; I’ve done it all. I’m most proud of one of my team’s projects that helped get my student employee her first ADDY award.

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