About

 

I’m a Creative Director. I’ve spent the past two decades helping build inspiring brands like Apple, Nest, Square, & Google.

 

I received an MS in H.C.I. from DePaul University with no intention of ever limiting myself to a single creative discipline. I focus on taking a multi-disciplinary approach to craft meaningful brand experiences.

I'm known to be quite calm, observant, quick to sketch ideas on black sticky notes, never seen eating yet always seen sipping espresso, and resolute on my quest to help teams build unique creative expressions.

 

Approach

 

I’m inspired by emerging art, fashion, nature, sub-cultures, and music. These inspirations imbibe the creativity to have a soulful resonance with the audience while thinking through the end-to-end experiences and being strategically sound. I focus on creating with purpose, guiding the creative always to be forward-thinking, and keeping the creative simple yet poetic.

What we create defines whom we are while leaving our mark on the world. We have an ethical responsibility to ensure we're making things to move humanity forward. We must ask if our creative has a valid reason to exist, which requires us to think things through courageously. Since the most creative thing we can do on earth is make it a little better.

We must be focused on creating groundbreaking work and avoid imitating what’s popular or been done. We first start by absorbing culture, being educated in history, and having a sound understanding of the audience. Next, we crossfade our perspectives to craft creative that shapes the future being while informed by the past, like jazz improvisation.

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. The most complicated part of the creative process is distilling the work to its essence. If we take simplicity too far, our work will feel sterile and lack distinction. We have to simplify with the consonance of Leonard Koren's aphorism, "Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry." Keep it simple yet poetic.

 
 

“If you should rise from nowhere, up to somewhere, from being no one up to being someone, be sure to keep repeating to yourself you owe it to an arbitrary god whose mercy to you rather than to others won’t bear to critical examination. Stay unassuming.” – Robert Frost