"Create for yourself a life in which you care to live."

-Me, right now.

I try to approach every day with a similar mentality: it is just as likely that I'll throw on a pot of coffee and work a 14-hour-day as it is that I'll hop in the car with a stranger and embark on a 2-week, unplanned road trip. 

I am a firm believer in the importance of a well balanced life. I was not designed to sit under florescent lights all day only to come home, exhausted from stress, and sit around watching TV. With this mentality, I have taken an initiative to make my "work" and my "play" one and the same—my career as a designer and my passion for travel and the outdoors have coalesced.  

Frequent travel as well as regular trips into the mountains with which I am surrounded have a heavy influence on my work, and I treat every trip as an opportunity to create. These mini-sabbaticals have become integral in my process, and they help me remain inspired and feeling refreshed. Below are a few field trips, big and small, that I've taken over the past few years. Take a peek into my world—a world dictated by the pursuit of balance.

Westward Roadtrip

Sometimes you think you have your life figured out, but in reality, you don't have a damn clue what the world has in store for you.

After finding my groove and getting some great, consistent freelance work I decided to take one month off—'cause that makes sense, right?—to see some of the natural beauty that the good ol' US of A has to offer.

Iceland/Europe

Burnout is real; I spent my first year in Denver working from sun up to sun down. During this time I began lettering, started my studio and made a massive amount of professional progress as well as an equal amount of mistakes.

Two months camping in the Icelandic/European wilderness proved to be a pretty fantastic reset.

West is Best

I have felt compelled to live out west ever since I visited my cousin who lived in Steamboat, CO in 2006.

I was instantly hooked when I noticed that everyone with whom my cousin surrounded himself spent their free-time climbing, snowboarding, hiking, camping, skateboarding—truly enjoying the lifestyle shaped by these beautiful mountains. Count me in.

This is album is a compilation of photos from the first one and a half years that I lived in Denver.

Southeast Asia

After two and a half years working as an in-house designer I was becoming complacent, and I decided that I needed something new.

Four and a half months backpacking through Southeast Asia was just about as "new" as you could get.