Before I was a designer, I was a bookmaker. I began designing sketchbooks at seven years of age in my closet in Fairbanks, Alaska. I would collect paper, recycled and otherwise, from my Dad’s geodex organizer for my booklets. I would sit in my studio, or closet rather, and layout my book. Surrounded by an array of sheets in crèmes, tans, yellows and whites I would measure, color coordinate, trim and bind the sheets via the stapler method. Every little sketch booklet of reconstituted paper was a precious relic.

I still collect paper, but I’ve since found myself surrounded by its virtual self: the pixel. I collect them as well.

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