I design brands that feel before they explain.

Graphic Designer & Surreal Artist Decorah, Iowa Est. 2025 Available for projects

The Designer

I'm a graphic designer and surreal digital artist working where logic meets imagination — a background in computer science shapes how I structure a brand, and an instinct for the uncanny shapes how it feels.

My practice spans brand identity, art direction, and packaging design, but the thread running through all of it is restraint. I build systems first, then look for the one image or mark that justifies the whole thing existing.

Outside of client work, I make surreal digital art under arttrec — photo manipulation and dream logic pushed until it stops looking staged and starts looking remembered.

Location
United States
Education
Computer Science
Focus
Visual Communication / Computer Science
Studio
arttrec
I believe the best design speaks before you do. Every project starts with intent — a reason for every mark, every color, every pause in the layout — long before it starts with decoration.

Journey

A short, honest timeline — from a computer science classroom to a studio that makes brands and surreal art in equal measure.

2022 CS Degree Started a Computer Science degree — the systems thinking that still shapes every brand I build.
2023 Graphic Design discovery Picked up design as a side practice and never put it back down — logo work, layout, and a growing obsession with type.
2025 First brands Took on the first full brand identity projects — packaging, art direction, and systems built to hold under real use.
2026 arttrec Studio Formalized the practice as arttrec — brand identity and surreal digital art under one studio name.

What I do

  • Identity Systems

    Brand Identity

    Marks, type systems, and color logic built to hold together across every surface a brand touches.

  • Visual Direction

    Art Direction

    Setting the visual world a brand lives in — photography, layout, and mood carried through every asset.

  • Physical Design

    Packaging Design

    Structural and print design for products that need to earn a second look on a shelf or a screen.

  • Personal Practice

    Surreal Digital Art

    Photo manipulation and dream logic — the personal work that keeps the client work honest.