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-I'm never happier than when
I'm working on something

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that is related to music.

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I do plenty of design work
outside of music, and I'm not

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sure if that has to do
with my childhood or what.

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I just have a strong
relationship to music.

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I'm a local graphic designer.

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I've worked at The Rocket, and
I've worked at Sub Pop Records.

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My role at Sub Pop Records
is VP of creative.

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I work on album covers,
I work on advertising.

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My technique, it's a mix
of digital and analog.

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So I will cut up things, I
will draw out type and images

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and then scan it in and then
mess with it in the computer.

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Kind of a messy collage style.

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I don't really know
exactly what I'm gonna do

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until I kind of get into it.

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And so the process itself
kind of helps dictate

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where I'm going.

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I have kind of a sketch in
my head, but that process

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of collaging, the happy
accidents along the way, are,

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I would consider, my style.

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Each row is separate from
this, so you don't need to

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line that up with that at all.

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Do this Sonic Guild poster next.

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Maybe a little closer,
but yeah, there you go.

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Perfect. I tend to
be more inspired

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by what's around me.

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There was a period of time when
I was first making posters

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that anything that I sort
of saw on the ground,

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I'd pick up.

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Xerox, really big.

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A Band-Aid was really
compelling to me.

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It was a bloody Band-Aid
that I turned into

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an Afghan Whigs poster.

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So for me, almost
anything is inspiring.

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I did art my whole life,
ever since I was little.

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I was grounded a lot as a
child, so I spent a lot

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of time in my room.

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So I did a lot of art.

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I made my own album covers,
I made my own T-shirts,

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I made my own cassette tapes.

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I started designing
posters in 1986

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for my first band,
The Funeral Party.

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About halfway through college,
probably my junior year,

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I took a graphic arts
class, and it was in that

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class that I realized that
everything was designed,

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and I had this epiphany.

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And so everything after
that was all art classes,

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And that's kind of how
I finished out college.

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♪♪

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I worked at The Rocket
from 1990 to 1994.

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The Rocket was a local
music publication.

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So I was kind of
a junior designer

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for the first two years, and
I became the art director.

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And so I was art
director for a year.

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My dream.

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It was my dream, you know?

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Like that's what I dreamed
of doing in college.

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And here I was, I
had to pinch myself.

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We're at the Sub Pop
waterfront space

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that we are currently
trying to open right now.

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I'm orchestrating the
hanging of some artwork

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that we had from
our headquarters.

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I did this one when
Mudhoney played on top

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of the Space Needle.

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In 1994, the owners at
Sub Pop reached out to me

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because they wanted to
start an art department,

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and they asked me to
be the art director.

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So on a daily basis,
I work on records.

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So I spend most of my
time working on album

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covers, talking to bands.

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Working with bands
is some of the most

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gratifying work that I do.

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They are incredibly
creative people themselves,

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and so I often take a back
seat to some of the work

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that comes in from them.

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And it's a real joy to
have their artwork come in

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and get to work on it and
get to work on it with them.

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I love to collaborate, and
so it's a great process.

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Pigeonhead, Mudhoney,
Postal Service,

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Nirvana, Beach House.

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I mean, I could name a million.

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I've got an upcoming
exhibit at Sparklebarn.

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It's a gallery in Ballard.

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There's gonna be a
lot of new posters

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that I've done in
the last few years.

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For the most part, it's just
gonna be a retrospective

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of everything that I've
done since I started

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doing graphic design.

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Come by and see some things
you've seen a million times.

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You know?

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I'll have film posters,
I'll have rock posters,

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I'll have album covers,
I'll have CD covers,

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I'll have ephemera.

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You would be amenable to that?

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Just junk I had in my storage
unit and threw it out.

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When people see my work,
I want them to experience

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somebody who's experimenting
with graphic design

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in a way that maybe some
other people aren't.

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I want them to feel inspired,
but mostly I just want people

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to have a really good time.

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♪♪

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The best advice for
young people is

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just go do what you wanna do.

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Like that's what I did, is I
just started making posters.

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Just stick with it, do the
thing that you wanna do,

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And it will happen.

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♪♪