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creative outlets
Many of my creative outlets and activities reflect my own design style. It is my hope that this digital portfolio website is a representation of the design style, themes, and elements I use in my work. I loved creating this website and intend to continuously update content to accurately depict the person and designer I have become.
I realize much of the content below has seemingly little to do with actual design work, but I feel it is important to understand the designer himself as well as the work he has done. This little bunch of personal projects, hobbies, and activities fuel and inspire much of my creative work. The same stylistic signature I incorporate into these creative outlets influences my life and my design work.
music
music
I really love music. Listening to music; playing music; writing music; watching live music performance. I always joke around that I would drop everything to tour the world with a rock band. Music has heavily influenced my life from an early age, and it fuels my life and work now. I especially love the mixing of light and music – each song / genre / artist has a different way of expressing music through light. I find the best shows and designs have acoustics, setting, and light balanced with and complementing the music. Similarly, quality building design is a result of balancing the various systems and using light to complement the space and architecture.
photography
photography
I have become interested and invested in photography over the past few years. While I still lack some of the equipment needed to pursue this hobby further, I have learned a lot in recent years about cameras, exposure, framing, and effects. Capturing light as the human eye sees it in nature and architecture can be quite difficult, but I enjoy the challenge and continuously improving my photography skills.
sketching
sketching
Between software programs like Photoshop and Bluebeam, sketching has become less and less prevalent in modern day design. However, that doesn't make it any less important a tool. It took me a while to understand that drawing "light" is essentially not drawing light at all but rather the darkness around it. Perhaps not an overly novel thought, but it was through sketching that I understood more about the nature and behavior of light and shadows in a way that Photoshop beam angle gradients can't explain.
activities
activities
I have only recently started taking pictures and videos of myself performing jumps and tricks on bikes / snowboards. Since doing so, I have realized the importance of examining and improving my own method and style. I find this to be true not only in my activities, but also my design work and the work of others. As an added bonus, I end up with some really cool content to share with my friends!
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