After receiving my BFA in Graphic Design, I started a design and publishing company—Desired Hype Design—with my friend and former classmate in February 2012. The first issue of VIA Noke Magazine, the first visual arts magazine in the Roanoke, Virginia region, hit the stands in June of the same year. My business partner and I organized and managed every aspect of creating the magazine—designing, publishing, and distributing over 12,000 copies of the four issues we published within that next year.
In the summer of 2013 I moved to Southern California. For the two years I lived there, I worked as a full-time contract graphic designer for Young's Market Company in Tustin, California creating cocktail menus and marketing materials for national and international wine and spirit brands.
In 2015 I switched coasts, moving to the Jersey Shore. For the past five years I've worked for W&E Baum in Freehold, New Jersey designing commemorative plaques and donor walls for major hospitals, universities, businesses, synagogues, and churches across the United States and abroad.
Abstraction, typography, and texture are my true obsessions. In my spare time I enjoy creating mixed media collages and paintings inspired by abstract expressionism and pop art.