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• PERFECT NOTEBOOK: This classic, 6”x9” notebook is the perfect place for all your emerging, imaginative ideas! Perfect for journaling or a sketchbook you carry with you everywhere. Perfect for note-taking, whether you’re in a classroom, symposium, or just need a place to jot all your ideas. It’s also small enough and big enough, at the same time; it's basically the perfect size to be carried in the palm of your hand while retaining your ideas for your next best-seller or exhibition. Did I mention it’s also a perfect gift? Especially if you know an artist or a writer who collects notebooks with wild abandon.
• LINED PAGES: This notebook comes with 100 lined pages for you to create your magic. Dive in. Jot it down. Use pencil or pen or paints. By all means: write, scribble, jot, paint outside the lines I've provided for you. These pages are meant for all your mark-making and letter-penning. Don’t hold back. Use them up. Fill them up. Every single page.
• DURABLE COVER: Although paper-based, this cover is durable but flexible, so it can be handled and tossed around and still retain its binding. You’ll want to feel the cover, too: it’s soft, textural coating makes picking it up or opening it up an enjoyable experience, every time you’re ready to jot down your ideas.
• COVER DESIGN: The design and illustrations you'll find on this notebook's covers comes from art or illustrations or designs of my original making! The cover on this notebook comes from an exhibition I had in Salt Lake City in October 2024. Who knows: maybe I'll develop a series of notebooks just from that show! Stay tuned for more silly, modern, contemporary, artistic cover designs!
Photos from the opening
KTTYCT is one of the furry BST FRNDS I debuted in a recent showing at FICE Gallery in Salt Lake City. The original piece was created with acrylic paint on wood panel.
The limited edition prints are giclée prints measuring 12” x 18”.
>> Concept, creative direction, design (cover and guts), editing, marketing, promotion, publishing
3,651 YEARS LIVED is a global collection of poetry and prose reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it includes a global chorus of voices young and old, hopeful and exhausted, joyous and grieving, together reflecting a wide range of human responses to a crisis that united us even as it kept us apart.
The collection has two covers to choose from—Original (b/w) and Quiet (pink)—and is available for purchase and review on Amazon.
>> Creative direction, photography, design, styling, project management
The Utah Domestic Violence Coalition hired me to spearhead their first public awareness campaign. I, like the general populace, had no idea the organization existed, much less the staggering facts they were intent on sharing with the state, its populace, and lawmakers.
Victims/Survivors typically feel ashamed about speaking up against their abuser or their horrifying experiences. Because of the fragile-but-urgent needs of the abused, I was particularly mindful of the design of this campaign; I wanted to ensure the victims/survivors were afforded the dignity they deserve.
The galvanizing epicenter of the creative direction was the purple hand markings. The intentional symbolism speaks to a number of points of abuse: being silenced, being physically handled, strangulation. We chose to employ paint (purple is the nationally recognized color signifying domestic abuse awareness) on the otherwise everyday appearance of the models in hopes the viewer sees this could happen to anyone.
>> Concept, creative direction, executive direction, publishing, design, illustration, public speaking, team training, event planning, promotions, marketing, crowdfunding, fundraising
I founded this 501c3 organization to turn children living in extraordinary circumstances (rare diseases and life-threatening illnesses) into published children's book authors. Each title
The avian characters used in each book are made entirely from punctuation marks and called The Jolly Troop. Each Red Fred Project author aids in the character design of their unique character.
The books are a tangible achievement for a populace limited on how and when and what they can share with the world, due to their health restrictions. The books also serve as teaching tools, legacy objects, and literacy tools. The organization has published 30 titles from children across the United States.
You can explore the project and its children and books over on the organization’s website, here.
>> Writing, publishing, promotions, YA fantasy
The never-before-told mythological adolescence of the boy-thief, Nikolas, who would one day be called Santa Claus.
Jacqui Oakley: Cover Illustration
Spencer Charles: Typeface & Cover Design
>> Design
I assisted Mirko Ilic in creating this piece during the Occupy Wall Street movement. It was also selected as part of the TDC 58 (Type Director’s Club’s) exhibit that opened 15 May 2012 at Ecole de Communication Visuelle in Paris. The exhibition presented 2012's professional and student competition winners from around the world, showcasing outstanding typography.
You can see more of Mirko's remarkable work here.
>> Creative direction, art direction (photography), branding, stationery, menu, website design, signage, social media design
Table X is a modern American restaurant in Salt Lake City, situated at the base of the Wasatch Mountains. They source their ingredients directly from local farms or from their own garden.
I worked alongside the entire creative team (chefs, architects, and interior designer) from concept to completion.
Architecture by Parallel Lines
Interior Design by Andrea Beecher (Meld)
Photography by Holly Tuckett
>> Design, illustration, product design
Designs for pillowcases featuring my avian, typographical characters, The Jolly Troop.
>> Concept, styling, photography, copy, promotions
(Listen to the audio file to hear my short essay on this project.)
The project was open to anyone. Each participant was required to (1) wear a shirt they still had in their possession from a previous relationship—gifted to them by their ex (at the time), (2) play “their song” through A/V speakers where the shoot took place, while I photographed them, and (3) write a letter to their ex directly following the shoot.
>> Concept, creative direction, design, install
I created this time-lapse of installing my piece "IT is possible” as The Leonardo’s artist-in-residence. The installation took over 13 days with many voluteers.
For materials, I from finding the willows, to cutting the willows, to driving with me to get the willows, to making the scaffolding, to installing the scaffolding, to helping me weave, to helping me look at it and move each branch just so.
These images were shot every 30 minutes over the course of 13 days. This gif repeats 3 times. If you'd like to view it another 3 times, refresh the page.
Thanks to all that helped out with this! It was a wonderful time. If you're visiting Salt Lake City, you can see it March thru September at The Leonardo.
A branding project for a commercial properties firm, including logo and website design.
It's been a couple of years but I still think about it. Like, a lot.
Ride to End AIDS.
I remember when I was contacted. A photographer friend, based in Los Angeles, wasn't able to do it, so he passed my name along. Marc Cartwright: I can't thank you enough for passing it along.
The truth was, I didn't know what I was getting into, even though it *sounded* interesting and wonderful and challenging and I was told it would be that and more from the press corp team leaders wrangling us bunch of creatives together.
You see, I didn't know anyone with AIDS. Wait. Let me say that again: the only people I knew with AIDS was a long-time friend of my parents (who I never met) who would disappear and resurface after years of being away. The last time he did, he called my dad and told him he was dying and that he didn't have any family that would be with him. He wondered if my dad could come hold his hand while he died. My dad held his hand.
My parents had loved this guy like a son. He was gay, too. I think that fact scared them—especially when I came out to them a decade ago. That connection—being gay and having AIDS—has some tenuous strands connected to it.
The others I know with AIDS I'm ashamed to say I don't recall their names. They are children. Slum-born. In the middle of Nairobi. Orphans, most of them. They contracted AIDS because their uncles raped them, or the police, or some Joe that told them that sleeping with them would cure them.
So, you see, I have no idea what AIDS really is and who it impacts. My exposure to it is/was limited. But after these 7 days of riding in a car with 3 others and documenting thousands riding to end AIDS, I'm a changed person. I'd encourage you to support and watch this incredible event unfold this year, too. Visit their site here.
If you know me, you know I have a relationship with birds. Lots and lots of birds.
I've been making images with them for years, and just recently, discovered Society6. They put your art on stuff. And I have to say: I've been very pleased with the results. Check out my work here.
I should let you know, too: every purchase here helps me continue finding ways to work with children with critical illnesses across the country. I want to make 50 books with 50 children in 50 states. I call it the Red Fred Project (click here and check it out!).
