A house style for a literary press
We’ve had the honor of serving Hawthorne Books since before the northwest literary house had a business license. There’s not a lot of money in independent publishing: we’ve... More
Accumulation
Bob Dozono has spent his career trying not to become famous. Since the early 1970s, he has lived in Portland, Oregon, teaching, making work, exhibiting only at a co-operative... More
Blanket Stories: Almanac
Although Marie Watt identifies as a Native American artist – on grounds that she is both Native American (Seneca) and an artist – her work seeks to form relationships... More
Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons
I edited, designed and produced a 16-page publication to accompany the sculptor Marie Watt’s installation Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons, which was included in the Portland... More
Red Letter Days
Red Letter Days, edited by Beverly Warren-Leigh, was our first large-scale foray into historical text design. The two-volume set, which contains every extant letter Ms.... More
Oregon Humanities magazine
Oregon Humanities is a very useful organization: a regional non-profit committed to helping people improve their lives through education and application of the humanities; in... More
Northwest Film Center circulars
Pro-bono city. Every month, the Northwest Film Center put up a new series of films, and every month they’d publish one of these to advertise them. We’d wager that almost... More
Access: Oregon
The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife hired me to create a guidebook to state recreation areas offering access to the disabled. Veteran copywriter George Taylor and I... More
Cadillac brand development
If you click the disclosure triangle below, you’ll be treated to a long, seamy story regarding my involvement with a 2009 rebrand of General Motors’ premium marque. For the... More
Marie Watt: Lodge
Lodge is a survey, covering the American/Haudenosaunee artist Marie Watt’s work from 1995 to the present. It was commissioned by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem,... More
The Shimmering Land
A story about the nature of modern work, and the romantic rural hallucination afflicting many city dwellers. Formally, the book was an experiment in reduction: we wanted to... More
Gardenburger 1996 annual report
I produced several annual reports for Gardenburger; this is my favorite. In 1996, the company shifted its marketing effort from food service to the retail channel. This was a... More
A full-featured website for a regional theatre company
Portland Center Stage had a popular blog, and was savvy with social media. It had used those tools to create a close relationship with its audience. But their online ticket... More
Lincoln “Feel Smarter” print campaign
Print work developed to accompany Lincoln’s broadcast campaign featuring Mad Men star John Slattery, and a good example of the integrated creative/production environment I... More
The tools of corporate marketing, détourned.
Portland, Oregon, as of this writing, is the Canterbury of earnest, literate indie rock, but actually has a more interesting and long-standing jazz and soul culture. In 2006,... More
Oregon Humanities web development
The brand developed for Oregon Humanities by Jelly Helm’s studio was powerful for campaigning, but by his own admission did not address the longer-content issues the... More
Fios corporate brochure
In 2007, Fios clarified its market position to offering expertise in readiness and response: a direct reversal of the industry position that discovery is something that... More
Fios brand development
Fios was a pioneer and industry leader in the field of electronic discovery, a type of legal research concerned with the processing and cataloging of electronic evidence for... More
Showtime Extreme on-air identity
The first step in any project is drinking the kool-aid. While we do try whenever possible to work on behalf of products and services that we would ourselves use, this is,... More
Apartment Living
A meditation on the intimacies and isolation involved in apartment living, Sleep, Food, Laundry was conceived as a closed edition of five copies, three of which were given as... More
Smith & Fong website
All bamboo products are not created equal. Although the material itself is rapidly renewable, a bamboo forest is still a forest – an ecosystem – and demand for... More
Marie Watt Studio identity
Artists are in business. Any working artist will admit this; it’s others who insist that art, like religion, must somehow be separate from worldly concerns. And while the... More
Portland Brewing 1996 Annual Report
Portland Brewing had a lousy 1995 – largely due to a hypersaturated craft beer market – but management felt that they had made good decisions and were... More
Hawthorne Books cover design
Books – unlike most of the rest my work – are meant to last, which is part of why I enjoy working on them. And while I have never been obsessed by covers (my interest is... More
Black & Company brand development
A 40-year-old investment bank, specializing in regional business and industry, hoped to rebrand itself from a smaller member of the Lehman Bros. category into a nimbler,... More
Forest Park Conservancy brand development
For twenty years, the Friends of Forest Park communicated like many non-profits: word-of-mouth, augmented by a hodgepodge of in-kind donations and powered by the staff’s... More
Half-Life
Although initially hired as a mere designer, I ended up acting as producer, editor, confessor and doula to a catalogue raisonné of Barbara Tetenbaum’s books, published by... More
Admonitions useful to a spiritual life, Nos. 11 & 16
The first part of an experiment. A few years back, I made a number of so-called artist’s books (of which see elsewhere). During that time, I befriended the book artist... More
The Audience Network Identity
We didn’t win this one. In the wake of our repackaging of Comedy Central, DirecTV asked us to have a look at their Channel 101, which they planned to turn into an original... More
Excellent Gentlemen music packaging
I don’t tend to do much music packaging. But I’m plugged into the Portland music community: here, music is rolled into the rest of the creative fraternity, and I had a... More
