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A few blog posts I wrote for the Cyclone Bicycle Supply blog during my tenure there. I also managed and wrote posts for the Facebook and Twitter feeds, performed print and web design and managed all marketing activities. Cycling Sojourner Book Guides Riders Through Oregon Cycling Sojourner, a new addition to our growing book offerings, provides compre­hensive, [...]

This post was published on Brewpublic.com on Sep 12, 2012 One of the best ways to gain an appreciation for good craft beer is to experience where its ingredients come from. Hood River, Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing has always used locally sourced ingredients, and on Monday they bussed a few dozen lucky folks out to [...]

I am currently working on a long-term contract with Cyclone Bicycle Supply, a large bike parts distributer in NW Portland. I am designing sales materials, working on the annual (500 page!) print catalog and helping out with some social media and other marketing projects. I’m excited to be working with this fun team at Cyclone!

I will be spinning some music this Friday, Oct 7, at the Press Club on SE 26th and Clinton in Portland. It will be a First Friday art show opening for Chris Haberman. I like Chris’s fun, street, illustration, almost comic inspired art that can certainly have  a dark edge to it as well. He [...]

I’m enjoying (or trying to enjoy) this lovely, warm, September we’re having here in Portland. I wonder if people still call this sort of September an Indian Summer, and if that’s even an appropriate thing to say. Until further notice, I think I’ll avoid that term and just call it … something else, like Super [...]

I love Improv Everywhere. They’re a group of artists who create spontaneous acts of theater. This brightened my spirits watching it, and I think maybe made some of the passerby and participants in this unique social experiment spirits brighter too.

Here’s an awesome example of interactive architectural projection, which is pretty much just what the name suggests. Recent technological innovations have made this type of display more feasible, and well … wow. The potential here for artistic and marketing purposes is huge. While I would want to see some more artistic, creative expressions like this, [...]

I will be DJing twice this week: Friday August 12 at the Agenda and Saturday August 13 at Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel. August 12 – The Agenda - 2366 Southeast 82nd Ave. (which I like to call by it’s pretty name, The Avenue of Roses) at Division St.  I’ll be with Brewpublic’s Angelo, aka, [...]

Simple is often better. There’s been plenty of jaw-dropping and complex street art in the past couple decades, as well as a bit of decent outdoor advertising. It’s an understatement to say that our public spaces are certainly filled with plenty of visual stimulus. The European network of artists TO SAY IT (tosay.it) grab attention [...]

I recently finished concepting and designing this poster for yet another awesome summer beer event in Beervana Portland, Oregon. This event is actually being put on by the Beervana blog and Coalition Brewing, and is an official PDX Beer Week event. The idea for the event is that “Big Flavors Come in Small Beers,” and what [...]

I could stare at maps all day. In fact, I did that for about a year while working for a transportation software company. The patterns, man made but influenced by natural surroundings, have a sort of organized chaos that inspired me. There’s order along grids, but then, whoa, what are all these curves? Aaah, I [...]

Just finished this poster for Microhopic 3. Angelo, the editor at Brewpublic, came up with this event concept, and I think it’s great: feature smaller, local breweries who may not be distributed to many pubs yet. His event 1 and 2 poster featured a microscope in a hop field, so we wanted to keep using [...]

I recently finished Kurt Vonnegut’s “Bluebeard.” Since high school, Vonnegut has been one of my favorite authors. The love affair started when my step-mother took me to a used book store in Spokane, Washington. To my mild embarrassment, she asked the sole employee, who was what I thought to be a very cool senior at the [...]