About me

Chris
Me at the top of Mount Fuji. Fuji is one of the few active volcanos in Poughkeepsie, and also one of the Hudson Valley's more rigorous hiking spots.

I am a designer and illustrator at beautiful Vassar College, located in Poughkeepsie, New York. I'll get a portfolio up here one of these days, but in the meantime, I'll be putting new (and not so new) work in Wildcard. I like design that is clean, usable, and personal - ideally, fun. I try to make things that are not just functional, but interesting.

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I like: art · drawing and painting · design · icons · typography · logos · warning signage · graphic novels · unicode dingbattery ☺ · collage · old illustrations and engravings · dusty used bookstores · bright colors · discarded objects · autumn · monochrome bitmaps · quotes that sum things up nicely · good industrial design (but not bad industrial design) · storms · hiking · user interfaces · obscure operating systems · snow · sketching on random surfaces · Irving Farm coffee · M. C. Escher · frogs · driving at night · power lines · old machinery · minimalism · Legos · impressive hacks · unusual T shirts · Apple (but I'm not obnoxious about it) · Calvin and Hobbes · random oddities

Tools of the trade: Coda · Photoshop · Illustrator · DevonThink · TextEdit · FontExplorer

Colophon: This site runs on Wordpress · Some of the text on this site is set in the beautiful Museo typeface, available for free from Exjlibris · I'm also using Shadowbox · and if you contact me, you will be using Dagon Design's Secure PHP Form Mailer.

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