I build brands: identity, website, and everything between. And I ship them live.
Ten years of it: bars, campus organizations, a screen-printing shop, and my own five-year lifestyle brand. Most recently, a brand and design system for a promotions company, and a live site for a painting and remodeling company. I work best as the one creative lead a small team trusts to own the brand and make it real.
The work
Where I am now is easiest to see in the work itself.
Right now
- Building
- This site, and Everen, a workshop-facilitation web app I’m building on the side.
- Based
- Chicago. Open to remote across the US.
- Open to
- A founding or brand designer seat on a small team that wants a creative lead, and select brand engagements with founders who need one built and shipped.
I came to brand the long way. I wanted to design since I was a kid tracing images and splicing video-game sprites, but the formal doors kept closing, art school and then advertising, so I built my own. Fraternity t-shirt chair, then posters for the campus bars, then my own lifestyle brand. Each detour handed me a skill the last one didn’t: an audience, a deadline, how a brand earns loyalty. They all added up to this.
I spent years fascinated by why someone becomes an “Apple person” or a “Nike person,” then realized I’m a Polo-and-Guinness person, loyal to the same handful of things since college. The movies I rewatch are heists and time-loops and whodunits; I like a story that pays off something it set up an hour earlier. It’s probably why I build brands the way I do.
Building something that needs a brand, and someone to ship it?
I work two ways. A full-time seat as founding designer, brand designer, or creative lead, on a small team where brand decides outcomes. Or a focused engagement, if you’re a founder who needs a brand built and shipped, not just designed. Either way, reach out.