I collaborated with the crew at Spork Media, a Social Media Marketing company, on the design of their logo and initial branding elements. I’m looking forward to expanding the brand across multiple mediums and possibly trying to print on wet naps, for promotional purposes.

This is a collection of the motion design, art direction and creative direction work I’ve done in the past year.

While on staff at HDMG, I lead a team of creatives in refreshing the company’s identity. Using the existing logo, we used the 20th anniversary as the launching pad for the new identity. A huge thanks to everyone at HDMG for everything.

I recently collaborated with three other designers, Molly Hein, Catherine Grothe and Christina Rimstad, to create a conceptual response to Emil Ruder’s text Typographie: A Manual of Design. Gaining inspiration from traveling suitcase exhibitions, we expanded the book into an educational toolbox that includes a poster, stamp kit, motion graphic DVD, and a series of accordian-folded pamphlets tracing the thread of Ruder’s influence throughout contemporary design.

This piece has recently received the 2010 AIGA Minnesota Student Design award.

This lifestyle brand started as a survey of one man’s consumption, and has morphed into a casual conversation about human health fundamentals. To facilitate these conversations, numerous informational graphics have been designed, examining and poking fun at one man’s gastirc intake.

The magazine insert designs are utilized as a vehicle to further the conversation of the Gut Checks motto. To supplement that motto, original copywriting was combined with communicative illustrations to advance the particular subjects.

I was able to jump in the art director chair, and hone my real estate chops for this project. I teamed up with a 3D artist, script writer and sound designers to produce a three dimensional adventure, traveling through the intricate steps of the Net Lease experience.

This typographic animation, for Nodak Auto Insurance Company, is a fast paced journey through the countless variables of the insurance buying experience.

This illustration animation was one of three spots produced for North Dakota State University’s “Imagine the Impact” campaign.

I was approached  by Motionpoems, a fantastic amalgamation of poets and animators, to produce an animation, based on poetry. I collaborated with Todd Boss, a Twin Cities poet, on an animation of his original poem “Don’t Come Home”.

This is my take on the traditional business card. The design is intended to grab the viewer’s attention, with the atypical medium, and then maintain their attention, with the multiple layers of thought that went into the overall design of the piece.

This project wouldn’t have been possible without the help and expertise of the crew at Studio on Fire. Their letterpress experts and detail oriented press operators really helped turn this into a successful piece.