Print Ads

My background is in advertising and the reflex of creating ads is found scattered throughout my work. This process is familiar, meditative and, most importantly, void of market-driven objectives. My brands are imagined, not iconic. My messaging is often unpolished and confusing, or abstract. Sometimes they’re made with pixels, sometimes they’re made in paint, and sometimes they’re made with both. Every so often I’ll feel the urge to make a statement.

I ran 13 of these ads in Chicago's Streetwise magazine. Later, I created *Footnote magazine so I could run more of my ads more frequently and more affordably. I did all the concepting, writing, art, design, photography, production, etc. I refer to this work as "Advertising, Post Persuasion."