Brandtatorship
New endeavors come with great risk. My friends, many of you know already, but on Jan 18th I left my job as the Creative Director of the digital company StormFrog to form my own advertising agency [...]
It’s Just An Opinion
That’s all it is. An opinion. My opinion. But it’s mine and no one else’s. My own take on a subject. It’s a collection of life experiences encapsulated into a series of [...]
Love at Three Sights
When I was younger I never believed in love at first sight. My life in advertising as an Art Director had trained me to never buy into the movie or television romances exploited by the [...]
Play Defense
Play Defense. That’s what Mike May told me in Memphis, Tennessee minutes before going in to meet my client for the first time. (The picture on the left is from one of our trips, drawn in [...]
A Designer’s SuperBowl Pick
I am rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Superbowl XLV. They are not my favorite team. I have never lived in Pittsburgh and I have no connection to the Steelers at all. I do however, admire [...]
World Cup Soccer and a Flag Geek
I have been called a flag geek once or twice in my day. I was drawn to the design and bright colors as a child while looking through encyclopedias that can be found in the “wood floor [...]
NASCAR Texas Hold ’em
Since when did Texas Hold ‘Em poker become NASCAR? Every once in awhile I’ll catch the occasional WSOP tournament segment on ESPN and I started to notice a trend. Just recently I [...]
The Strategy of Basketball
I loved to play basketball when I was younger. Though I wasn’t very good at it. My size and skill earned me the nickname “handicap” but I still enjoyed to play. Some of my [...]
Product placement is the biggest loser.
Unless you are The Biggest Loser. NBC’s hit reality show The Biggest Loser does more than entertain America while contestants sweat away pounds. The show is a model for appropriate product [...]
