I've been a designer and visual communicator for 25 years. I like pictures, and I agree that a good picture is worth a thousand words. However, good words combined with a good picture can transform you. And that's what communication is all about--capturing YOUR attention.

I am the CEO of awakemedia.com. We create brands, web sites, video, podcasts, events and films. We like to tell stories worth telling, and we like to give design and media support to companies that are helping to transform the world and make it sustainable and beautiful for now and future generations.

My dynamite partners at Awake Media are Sun and Allan Lundell and Nada Miljkovic, each one of them has decades of talent in media, and are, in my opinion, completely awake.

I helped create the vision for the Santa Cruz Design Innovation Center, and was part of the original TAG (Technical Advisory Group) that envisioned what Santa Cruz could become. I'm still at it....