Profiles
My interest in design
was born during my youth in a city lovingly known as "The Heart of the Inland Empire." That moniker is the result, as I was taught in fifth grade, of not only the city's centrality to the region, but also it's geographic shape. My home town is a sort of blocky, shape-shifting, ever-incorporating valentine made mostly of sage, concrete, and ponderosa pine. That's right: Spokane, Washington is where it all happened. It was there that I began to play with computers as well. From using Print Shop on my Parents' Apple IIe, to my first digital drawings with Aldus Freehand on their Mac several years later, It was the beginning of something great. I owe a lot of my ability to the availability of those tools, so thanks Mom and Dad for the chance.
These days,
I spend a lot of time at A List Apart. I also troll the internet for fonts. Not very exciting unless you dig typography I guess, but I enjoy it. At Say This Say That we love design. We won't force content into a framework that doesn't suit it. We admire the beauty of negative space. You'll see the difference in the work that we do.
thanks for reading,
Micah
Qualifications
I gear my design toward simplicity and elegance. I love animation, and relish any opportunity to do animation work. I code standards-compliant xhtml and css. I also work in Flash.
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite
Hand-coding
Education
Sept. 2002-June 04
The Evergreen State College
Bachelor of Arts Degree, June 2004 Academic Focus: Art, Graphic Design & Animation
Experience
Feb. 2007-July 2007
Project Manager » Focus Design Studios
Oversaw and expedited the design process
Designed and coded websites
Search Engine Optimization
March 2005-Jan. 2007
Mobile Game Artist » Real Networks
Designed and produced graphics for video-games on mobile devices
Created games with sensibilities toward scalability and device limitations
Created new games and translated PC titles to the mobile platform
July 2004-March 2005
Flash Artist » Real Networks
Designed web ads and layout graphics for GameHouse.com
Contributed to the site redesign and transition to a table-free layout
Produced Flash ads on the GameHouse home page
Created preload Flash animation currently featured on GameHouse.com
Sept. 2003-June 2004
Animation & Film Internship » The Evergreen State College
Lab support for film, animation and digital video editing labs
Produced animations, both traditional and computer generated
Created the 2004 T-shirt design for the Evergreen Electronic Media Staff
Art Director for the 2004 Evergreen Student Music CD