Portfolio
Web Design & Development
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Die Kreuzen
View Site
- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Content Development
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MKEpunk
View Site
- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Content Development
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The City of Bayfield, WI
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Sooper Dooper
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
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Salon Dovini
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- XHTML
- jQuery
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Rushmor Records
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
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Mystery Room Mastering
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- XHTML
- CSS
- jQuery
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Justin Perkins
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
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Halo of Flies Records
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Download Cards
- PayPal Integration
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Gilead Media
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Download Cards
- PayPal Integration
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Emblems
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- XHTML
- CSS
- jQuery
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Rust Belt Demons
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- Design & Development
- Wordpress
- XHTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- PayPal Integration
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Somerville
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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ATC 10 Year Plan
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Kit Sorenson
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Kosler CPA
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Cloud 9 Dentistry
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Mykleby DDS
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Platypus 2011 Holiday Microsite
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- Responsive Layout
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Mahler Enterprises
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- Development Only
(while employed by Platypus Advertising + Design) - Wordpress
- XHTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- Development Only
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Boheme Salon
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- Development Only
- Wordpress
- XHTML
- CSS
- jQuery
Typeface Experiments
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Bowery
Bowery was developed because there was nothing like it at the time. A young tattooist, Mario Desa, shared his flash and tattoo mags with me, which was the inspiration for this traditional tattoo handwriting.
Postscript TrueType -
Hellveticuh Black
Originally created for DIY venue, Club Karate, this was inspired by xerox flyer art. Distressed and half-toned for a screen printed look. This font has been used heavily by Victory Records and Shepherd Express.
Postscript TrueType -
Player Piano Roll
This “found” type was developed by scanning the lettering from a vintage player piano scroll which was picked up at a venture thrift store. The results was this stenciled type, reminiscent of punk bands like CRASS.
Postscript TrueType -
Senefelder
This type face was created by transferring a digital print to a slab of limestone and printed to newsprint using a lithographic printmaking process. This unique process created a organic, distressed look.
Postscript TrueType -
Rescue – Technician
This typeface was developed based stencils seen on road cases of touring bands. A few letters were initially drawn as a logo comp for a band. The type was rejected, but it now lives on in this finished typeface.
Postscript TrueType -
Rescue – Disaster
This is an alternate version of Rescue – Technician, which features rounded corners. The font family name was picked up by the band, “Rescue” (from Detroit?) which rejected the logo comp. Thanks guys, you these fonts.
Postscript TrueType
These typefaces licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Audio Production
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The Hullmen – Bar, Chords & Brunettes
Produce / Engineer / Mix
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Momentum – Herbivore
Engineered Cory von Bohlen’s guest vocals on this track.
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The Hullmen – “Here Come the Hullmen”
Produce / Engineer / Mix / Mastering
Full length album, album art
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Protestant
Produce / Engineer / Mix / Mastering
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Bored Straight
One of two tracks produced for a compilation LP:
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Poison & Hymns
Engineered / Mixed / Mastered
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Lambs Legs
Vocal Tracking / Mixing
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Stock Options – “S/T”
Engineering, mixing, bass playing
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Stock Options – “Ancient Bloom” EP
Engineering, bass playing, package design
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Remixes for United Sons of Toil
I mastered the entire remix album, but these are my contributions to the project as a remix producer.
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Remix Entry for Tetris Rap Attack! Contest
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Remixes for Carnage the Executioner
About My “Live Recording” Technique
Inspired by records like Bad Brains' Black Dots, I've been experimenting with executing live, single-day recordings, with minimal or no overdubs. Grown out of the necessity to record my own band, Stock Options (R.I.P.), I now have the ability to record up to 16 tracks at once. If you're a Milwaukee punk or hardcore band that needs a recording produced, I might be able to help you out. My availability is extremely limited.
If you do not have a mastering budget, I can supply a loud final mix for CD, cassette or vinyl duplication. (However, you really should spend the money and hire someone locally like Justin Perkins (or one of many nationally-known mastering engineers like Alan Douches or Carl Saff.)
Computer
- 15" MacBook Pro
- 2.GHz Intel Core i7
- Mac OSX Lion
- 7200rpm internal drive
- 8GB RAM
- external 22" Apple display for mixing
Mobile Rack-Mounted Hardware
- Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40
- Behringer ADA8000 UltraGain Pro-8 A/D/A converter
- Tonelux v4 500 series API lunchbox
- 4 - Classic API vp26 mic preamplifiers
- Furman Power Conditioner
Amplifiers
- 1969 Ampeg VT-22 2 x 12" combo guitar amp
- Ampeg SVT3Pro bass head
- 2 - 4x10" Warwick bass cabs
- Orange Crush 35w combo bass amp
Software
- Ableton Live 8 Suite
- Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor
- Audiofile Engineering Sample Manager
Plug-ins
- Wavemachine Labs Drumagog 5
- Celemony Melodyne 2
- Antares Auto-Tune Evo v5
- Voxengo Mixing & Mastering Plug-in Suite
- Waves Kramer Master Tape
- Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter
- iK Multimedia Ampeg SVX virtual bass amp
- iK Multimedia Amplitube 3 virtual guitar and bass amp
- + many more plugins
Microphones
- 1 - Shure SM7b
- 2 - Cascade Fat Head II ribbon mics
- 1 - Rode NT-1 condenser mic w/shock mount & wind screen
- 2 - AKG S1000C condensor mics
- 1 - Audix D6
- 1 - Audix D4
- 1 - Shure PG56
- 2 - Audix i5
- 8 - Shure SM57
- 1 - Shure Unidyne III, vintage
- 1 - DIY subkick, mounted
- 2 - DIY subkicks, unmounted
Miscellaneous
- 1 pair 10" Behringer B3031A Truth Studio Monitors
- 3 - passive DI boxes
- 1 pair Sennheiser studio headphones
- 1 wind screen
- a large suitcase full of mic cables
- various mic stands in an assortment sizes
- 2 large positionable sound baffles
- acoustical foam mounted to three walls
About Me
My creative endeavors have always been deeply influenced by my lifelong love of music and skateboarding and their respective subcultures.
I grew up absorbing DIY zines, Thrasher magazines and punk rock records. I was particularly fascinated by album artwork. I eventually formed a band with high school friends. After a few years, I chose to take a more “behind the scenes” role in the local hardcore punk scene, designing fliers for shows and laying-out demos for my friends’ bands. Some of those bands went on tour and got noticed, which in turn, gave me opportunity to work for a variety of indie labels.
After graduating from college with an Art degree, I turned an internship into a gig as a graphic designer at a small package design firm in my hometown. I cut my teeth developing package concepts for national brands such as: Windex, Edge Shave Gel, Skintimate Shave Gel and Ziploc.
Concurrent to my career as a print designer, I continued to pursue my personal studies in web design and development. After devouring the first of many books on CSS and front end development, I knew I wanted to transition front print to web design and development as a career.
I currently work for Platpus Advertising + Design in Pewaukee,WI, and I live in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee. In my spare time, I develop and help curate a digital archive of Wisconsin music called MKEpunk.com with my pal Jeremy.
From September 2010, until June 2012, I played bass in Stock Options.
Watch more videos, download releases, or find out more about the band, which is currently on indefinite hiatus. Don’t fret, a new project is underway. For those interested, you can download my 90s pop-punk band’s discography here.



















