Hey. I’m Elliot
I got my start working in ski shops and making ads because I was good at Photoshop and had a camera. It’s a long fun story… you really should hear it sometime.
Designer
Lately, I have been contemplating what it means to be a middle-aged designer. I’ve done the agency thing. I’ve done the client-side thing. This is what I am, and I’m not going anywhere. I’ve had my fair share of eleventh-hour design fire drills, and I have had to deliver tough feedback to other designers. I’ve worked with executives on their messaging and presentations and coordinated with other agencies on a corporate rebrand. I do all of this because I love working with people to make things.
Photographer
I’m definitely more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it. I picked up a camera at about the age of 8—a simple Kodak point-and-shoot. I lifted it to my eye and captured a frame. Since that day, I have spent my life looking at the world through a small rectangle. It’s both limiting and freeing, simple and complex, chaos and calm in that frame. But most of all, it tells a truth. I do a little bit of everything: landscape, portrait, travel, event, night, texture, action sports, nature. I’ve directed multi-day corporate photo shoots. I’ve slept under the stars on the side of a mountain on a clear night to get the right shot. I shoot a Cannon EOS-R, a Minolta XD-7 that found at a garage sale for $5, and a Hasselblad 503cw.
