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AREAS OF FOCUS:

• Immersive Experience Direction
• Creative Direction & Visual Strategy
• Brand Systems & Identity
• Editorial & Experiential Storytelling
• Photo & Campaign Art Direction
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

The strongest brands aren't built one touchpoint at a time. They're experienced as a whole.
 

I've spent more than twenty years helping brands find and express a distinct point of view through creative direction, art direction, and immersive experiences. Whether shaping a campaign, building a visual identity, directing photography, or designing an environment, I'm interested in how every detail contributes to a cohesive experience.
 

I'm drawn to the earliest stages of the creative process, when ideas exist more as instinct than strategy. My role is to give those instincts shape, translating them into visual language, environments, and experiences that feel intentional, emotionally resonant, and unmistakably their own.
 

My work lives at the intersection of editorial thinking, brand building, and experiential design. I move fluidly between image and environment, product and place, always considering how people encounter, remember, and connect with a brand over time. Atmosphere, narrative, materiality, and restraint are as important to me as aesthetics.
 

Throughout my career, I've collaborated with global brands across fashion, beauty, entertainment, retail, and hospitality. Long-term creative partnerships, including my work with Gwen Stefani, reinforced the importance of trust, authorship, and consistency, and taught me how to maintain a clear creative vision across disciplines, teams, and scale.
 

More recently, through Taste Poetic, I've expanded that philosophy into food and hospitality, exploring how shared experiences can become another expression of a brand's identity.
 

I believe the most memorable brands aren't simply seen. They're felt. Every touchpoint should contribute to the same story, the same atmosphere, and the same distinct point of view.

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SELECTED COLLABORATIONS

• Galleria Edina • Odele Beauty • Gwen Stefani • Backstreet Boys • Target • Coty
• Interscope Records • Marion Parke • Mattel • Nickelodeon

Highlights from a long-term creative collaboration:

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