When You Need
To Make
Presentations
For four years at Mach49, I designed the decks Fortune 500 teams used to pitch new ventures. Millions of dollars moved or didn't based on how well thirty slides told the story.
Pitch deck design, investor presentations, master slide systems, presentation templates for distributed teams, executive briefings, conference talks.
If you have a pitch coming and money on the line, I can build you a deck that holds a room. I can also build the template system behind it, so your team can keep making good ones without me.
Mr. Worldwide
I have created successful decks and templates for clients all over the world. No matter what time zone you're in, I'll bring your vision to life and help you tell your story to accomplish your goal as fast as possible. Most of the presentations I have designed are under heavy NDA if you would like to see more in-depth samples then please contact me below.
At Mach49, I led the company-wide rebrand: new standards, a full asset library migration, hundreds of templates rebuilt on deadline. Client work never slowed down while it happened, so nothing was allowed to break.
Complete brand systems, logo design, typography and color systems, brand guidelines, template libraries.
Logo Examples
Logo and Identity Exploration
Most portfolios show the final logo. This is what the middle looks like. This client went through four rounds. The first explored concepts around their platform goals and community values. Then the brief changed underneath us, so round two pivoted to geometric letterforms and isometric marks. Round three pushed the new direction, testing the symbol at different angles and scales. The final round delivered the complete package: logo files, color system, type specs, and variations for every application.
Round 1: Explore
Round 2: Pivot
Round 3: Iterate
Final Round: Delivery
Making Brands Work at Enterprise Scale
Mach49's 2024 rebrand defined the logo, fonts, and colors. It didn't define how any of that survives a 200-presentation library full of data tables, technical diagrams, and dense content. I built the layer in between: layout frameworks, content standards, and working templates that non-designers could build with while staying on brand. Everything worked in both Keynote, PowerPoint, and Google Slides. The goal was a project manager could finish a complex deck without calling a designer for every slide.
Tri Beer Apparel
Most triathlons end with water and medals. Wildflower ends with beer. I designed cycling jerseys and cheer squad apparel for a team that races 8 miles through Lake San Antonio, then heads straight to the Thirst Quenching Station at the finish line. The gear is deliberately ridiculous, but it still had to function as actual athletic apparel. It needed to look good on the bike and at the bar.
When You Need
Ink That
Print and Editorial
From 2017 to 2020, I was Art Director at The Commonwealth Club of California, one of the oldest and largest public affairs forums in the country. The magazine reaches more than 100,000 members a month, and for three years it was mine to design.
Magazine design, editorial layouts, cover art direction, business cards, marketing swag, large format posters, banners and backdrops, casual and competition sports uniforms, challenge coins, interactive printed invitations, print vendor sourcing and relationships, design systems editorial teams can run on their own.
If it needs to be printed, I can design it, spec it, and match you with a vendor that fits your budget and your deadline.
The Commonwealth Magazine
110 The Embarcadero Building Rental Guide
When The Commonwealth Club opened its new waterfront headquarters in 2017, it needed a rental guide to market the space for conferences, weddings, and private events. I shot all the interior and exterior photography, redrew the architectural blueprints, and designed the brochure for the 24,000-square-foot LEED Gold building, from its two auditoriums to the rooftop garden.
Printed Marketing Materials
As Art Director, I produced a steady stream of printed and digital marketing for every department at the Club, usually several projects at once, for stakeholders with very different tastes. This is a small selection of what made it off the press.
When You Need
Content That
Video Production
and Motion Graphics
In January 2021, AC Transit needed COVID vaccine education videos for more than 2,000 transit workers, most of whom had zero interest in watching training videos. My job was to make the series they wouldn't skip.
Educational video series, training content, motion graphics, interview production, process documentation videos.
I can produce video that people watch all the way through: shot, edited, and delivered start to finish.
When You Need
Software That
Digital and UX
Straight out of art school, I joined a software engineering and consulting firm designing UI and UX for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Finance, healthcare, automotive, transportation, iOS, Android, web dashboards, back-end tools. If it had a screen, I designed for it.
UI and UX design for iOS and Android apps, web dashboards, enterprise software, icon systems, product design systems, website design.
I can design your app, dashboard, or website so it's fun, easy to use, and works the first time someone touches it. If your current product feels harder to use than it should, I can fix that too.
Vice Log
We all have our vices. My Grandma used to say, "Everything in moderation." But keeping moderation in check requires knowing the numbers. This app was created to give you an honest look at how daily habits add up over weeks, years, and lifetimes, measuring the real impact on your body, bank account, and mind. Originally designed as a cigarette counter, it now tracks anything: drinks, nicotine, snacks, social media posts, or whatever else you want to log. Your vices are your business. All of your data stays local. No online databases, no telemetry, no tracking. And it will finally tell you the age-old question of just how many hot dogs you actually eat.
Vacation Tracker
Asking for a week off shouldn't take three weeks of working up the nerve, but for a lot of people it does. You're not sure how many days you really have, who else is out, or whether now is a bad time to ask. Vacation Tracker answers all of that before anyone asks. George sees exactly what he has and how it adds up. Liz, his manager, sees who can cover before she says yes, and her yes sets up his calendar, his away message and the handover. It even knows the leave laws where each person works. And behind every balance is a pixel-art scene of where you'd rather be, because the whole point is getting to take time off and relax. This application is based on past outdated work and expanded and redesigned using modern tools.
Atlas BAS System
Ask anyone who runs an office building and they'll tell you the complaint they hear most is that it's too hot or too cold. Often the first person to notice is at a desk on floor 14, and the people who can fix it find out last, one phone call at a time. Atlas is a console concept for the building automation systems (BAS) that run office towers. When something breaks, everyone who needs to know sees it in the same second, in their own words: the operator, the chief engineer, the technician and the tenants. It sets itself up from the building's own point list, prices every fault with the math shown, and can rewind the building to the minute things went wrong. Somebody has to hold the building up. Atlas makes sure everyone knows who. This application is based on past outdated work and expanded and redesigned using modern tools.
Swoop
A mobile app for giving and getting free stuff without the hassle of Craigslist. Photograph the item, add a line of description, post it in seconds. Built-in chat keeps pickup logistics out of your inbox, and proximity matching favors neighbors within walking distance. I designed the full product, from flows to final UI.
The Girl Project
This is a pitch from July 2015 for a redesign of thegirlproject.com, moving The Girl Project away from a dated Drupal site. The Girl Project is a fund set up by Glamour to help fund girls’ secondary education around the world. Glamour runs a very high profile Women of the Year award event in late October and TGP was a component of that show.
The Emerson Icon System
When a designer gets hired to create a logo system and then delivers all of their icons as 16px pngs and then ghosts their client when they ask for the icons in editable vector format, someone else needs to step in and fix it. I came in and recreated everything from scratch. 300 icons for an industrial statistical-process-control platform, delivered in 23 days. CUSUM charts, stepwise regression, Gantt dependencies, zero-duration scheduling, etc. A lot of icons for a ton of functions, all legible and non pixelated at any size.
When You Need
Moments
Photography
I started shooting at fifteen and never stopped. That's over twenty years behind a camera, and I'm still finding new things to point it at.
Event, portrait, architectural, real estate, 360° virtual tours, editorial, product, concert, landscape, automotive, cinemagraphs, timelapse.
Whatever you need photographed, I've probably shot something like it. Let me know what you need captured.
Now You Know What I Do. What Can I Make For You?
I love making all types of visual art and I love helping people solve problems. I can do more than six categories of things. If what you need doesn't fall into any of these categories, then just pick your favorite spinny head and write me a thing.
Contact me
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