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EXPERIENCE
Freelance, 2000 – 2011
Eleven years of freelance illustration, interactive design, and art direction for companies including Visa, Google, Adobe, Microsoft, HBO, Amazon, and a great deal of smaller firms and venues.
Echo Team, 4/2010 – 2/2011
Art Director, designer and illustrator for Facebook game Crazy Boat, launched in March 2011.
Squonk Studios, 4/2007 – 8/2010
Creative Director and partner in interactive agency, for local as well as national B2B clients.
Venables, Bell, & Partners, 11/ 2007 – 8/2008
Production artist and designer at internationally-recognized advertising agency for such clients as HBO, Barclay’s PG&E, Sansa, and ConAgra.
Blue Flavor, 10/ 2006 – 10/2007
Illustrator and designer for Seattle-based marketing and branding firm, for such clients as Live Mocha, The Platform, and Leaflets.
Blue Frog Mobile, Inc., 1/2006 – 9/2006
Design Director for dynamic mobile content company. Print design, illustration, and concepts. Managed national print campaign, as well as all internal and external print collateral.
Nickelodeon Studios, 2001
Background layout and prop artist for popular television show “Hey, Arnold!”
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, LA, CA, 1996 – 2000
Bachelor of Arts degree on Full Scholarship in Cinema-Television Production program, with an emphasis in Animation and a minor in Studio Art.
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999
Eastern European Film and Animation
PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS
RobotsandMonsters.org 2007-2011
Creator, charitable foundation trading art for donations
The Ninth Letter 2011
Contributor, Literary Journal, There’s No One There art posters
Moga Mobo 2010 – 2011
Contributor, German comic anthologies
[Good Work] 2005 -2011
Creator, blog on design, media, and art.
The Basic Virus 2005-2007
Creator, online web-comic
365, Manifest Graphics 2002
Creator, Graphic novel
APPEARANCES
South by Southwest Festival, Austin, Texas, 2010
Featured panelist on the Interactive Panel, Indirect Collaboration: Collective Creativity on the Web
Seoul Int’l Cartoon and Animation Festival, South Korea, 2007
Featured Lecturer on mobile comics and storytelling potential. Author of talk, entitled A Question of Intimacy: Comics and the Mobile Medium
San Diego Comic-Con, San Diego, 2006
Panelist, Digital Comics in the Mobile Age
EXHIBITIONS
Bear + Bird Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2011
Superpunch Tarot Deck
Storefront for Art + Architecture, New York, NY 2010
Quarantine
Space Gallery, San Francsico, CA 2008
Deck/Shoes
Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Seoul, S. Korea, 2007
Alternative Press Expo, San Francisco, CA 2007
San Diego Comic-Con, San Diego, CA 2006
Sunset Art Space, Seattle, WA 2006
New Northwest Rock Poster Design
Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle WA 2005
New Works: New Seattle Artists
Bumbershoot, Seattle ,WA 2005
Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005
Urban Dwellers
Emerald City Comic-Con, Seattle, WA 2004
Bemis Group Show, Seattle, WA 2003
Bluebottle Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2003
Pressure: Poster Works
AWARDS
TeeFury.Com Annual Awards 2009
Winner, Tee Shirt Designer of The Year, “Paranoia 1 Tee Shirt”
The Greatest Story Never Told 2007
Winner, comic animation, “Waters Red”
Communication Arts Awards 2004
Illustration finalist