Skibos Tattoo

Skibo’s Tattoo has been tattooing and piercing the front range area of Wyoming and Colorado since 1982. Today, the company operates out of two locations in Wyoming and Colorado, employing many talented tattoo artists and body piercers. I have been a friend and patron of the shop for years, so I was…

USAA iPhone App + Deposit@Mobile

World-class banking just crawled all up in your pocket! In July of 2007 I was recruited by USAA in San Antonio, Texas, as a contract designer during the closing months of a massive web redesign campaign. Six months into my contract USAA made a full-timer out of me and I…

Synthesis, Part 1: Living Systems

What is the difference between you and I? Where do I end and you begin? Identity of self is a fundamental characteristic of any living system. Let’s put this in the context of a single-cell organism: the simplest form of life on Earth. A cell floating in a watery…

CoolHunting in Cambridge

Synthesis, Part 3: Ecology of Collapse

“If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes finding the solution.” — Albert Einstein

The most important part of solving a problem is to first define it. Parts 1 and 2 touched on the…

Arc Attacks Graphic Art

This site was built for the Arc Attacks, a sci-fi, steam punk influenced four man crew from Austin, Texas, during Knowbility’s AIR-Interactive competition at SXSW. I was a member of the USAA team for this contest, as well as the previous AIR Rally in San Antonio in November, 2007.

Century Media Interactive Promo Apps

I joined Century Media Record’s campaign for world domination as a hired gun for IME-Tech, a then LA-based IT firm that was contracted to keep the label online. I have been a long-time heavy music aficionado, so I nearly messed myself when the position was offered.

Capra to Margolin, and Back Again

I have considered myself a systems thinker for as long as I can remember. Believing that everything happens according to a great universal order makes this frenzied modern life a little easier to reason with. We live on a planet that, for the past three billion years…

Synthesis, Part 2: We Need to Talk

Based on our previous understanding of a living system, social networks require two things to sustain themselves: identity and communication. Individuals within the network will coordinate rules of behavior, social norms, beliefs, and abstract concepts, through the…