Mission
My main goal is to provide you with what you need, when you need it all in one place. A one-stop, off-site graphic design, printing, web, advertising & marketing department. When I create any artwork for you it’s on file and if you need a business card or a bulletin board or anything else you get the same style, and colors you need to help build your brand. One of the many keys to creating a cohesive brand identity in the marketplace is to be consistent so your peripheral materials are more easily recognized. This also lends credibility to your product or business which in turn creates buyer confidence. My mission is simply to make your image what you really want to convey, create quality in the items in which it appears, & maintain that consistency.
Most designers aspire to work for or open their own agency and nothing is wrong with that. However, my philosophy is to be the person that answers the phone and translates that conversation into the requested product. No mix up or miscommunication between departments. Just your needs and my filling of those needs. One on one service with consistent results whether you’re starting your first business or opening you 5th retail location you can contact me for the graphic, printing, signage, web site, print ads, mailers or whatever your needs deem at the time. You’ll get it affordably, timely, & with professional service. I want to be part of your success and you part of mine.
Experience
I’ve been a graphic artist since 1996. Starting out in the screen printing industry in 1994 I spent several years as a “spot color separation” artist designing artwork for t-shirts at several of Nashville’s screen printing companies, mostly recreating (redrawing) existing designs but that needed to be redrawn to be properly printed. I also was a designer and production artist for advertising specialty items also known as SWAG to most. Everything from book bags, ink pens, lighters, mouse pads, and chocolate bars, pretty much anything you can put a logo on. I also spent some time screen printing as well during this time which helped immensely in my understanding of the the process and creating art that looked good as well as worked when it got to press.
I also spent some time creating signage like vinyl banners, digitally printed banners, convention booth prints, also worked at an architectural signage firm where we not only designed the sign artwork but fabricated the majority of the actual signs, frames & mounting for entire hospitals, colleges, malls, and corporate complexes. I would create artwork for the actual sign display and also create “shop drawings” from blueprints to fabricate the sign from a variety of materials and processes.
In addition to this I’ve worked a national photo studio color correcting & retouching portraits, and I’ve been doing Flash animation for websites and digital signage systems. I also have several web development projects of my own in the works(more on that later) and I’ve most recently had the opportunity to help a company develop some technology for shipping custom content to digital signage so that customers could edit their digital signs at will, I also create a lot of the animated digital signs too.
As of late I have been teaching myself 3D Modeling, Animation & Rendering and hope to add those as services incrementally based on my level of proficiency.
To wrap it up, it’s time to name drop. One of the most asked questions I get is “have you ever done anything I’ve seen?”. My answer is usually “probably”, but what they really want to know is “have you done any design work for anybody famous”. My work that I’ve done for some music industry clients is probably what they’re thinking of and you can find some examples of these in my Portfolio. They include; Big Machine Records(logo & business cards), Toby Keith’s “Show Dog Nashville”(logo), Trent Tomlinson(logo), Pat Coil(website & printing), Dusty Drake(logo, shirt designs, CD Cover), Mark Collie(CD Cover, Posters & Printing), Though I get a thrill out of my work being on records all over the world I get just as big of a kick out of helping a small local business start out with a good logo design and incorporate it in to a brand throughout all their peripheral materials, being a beginning part of something that will grow and have a recognizable look is one of my greatest satisfactions.
