• Human Centered Design
• Design Thinking
• Platform Agnostic Design Solutions
On makeshift wooden tables lined with cardboard boxes were hundreds of comic books. Their covers had been removed and I had many moments alone with them as my mother gathered her haul of cigarettes. It was 1983.
When I talk to that kid, I find he is so many things that define me equally. I have been a draftsman, a model builder, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a copywriter, and an educator. They were not adjuncts to who I am – they are essential. More recently, I became a storyteller and a comic book creator. A raconteur and an artist. Yeah, comic books.
Today, my goal as an art and design educator is a refined focus on those subjects and concepts I am most passionate about, and where I have the most to offer students. These include narrative design and image creation, user experience and human-centered design, conceptualization and ideation, platform agnostic and modular design solutions, and nimbleness in visual problem solving. I am also very interested in the designer’s role as storyteller and how creativity speaks to the human condition. I look forward to sharing this journey with my students for many years to come.
• M.F.A., Graphic Design, Vermont College of Fine Arts
• B.F.A., Communication Design: Illustration, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
• User Experience & Interface (UX/UI); Web Design
• Visual Storytelling
• Data Visualization
• Digital Illustration, Vector Graphics, Image Creation
• Motion Graphics
Merrimack partnered with A Bed for Every Child, a non-profit based in Lynn, Mass., for the College’s first campus-wide, post-pandemic Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service event.
