Mikey Burton
An Ohio native, Mikey Burton proudly describes his design aesthetic as “Midwesterny” and draws much of his inspiration from artifacts found throughout the hardworking, blue collar Rust Belt: old type-specimen sheets, arcane equipment manuals and ancient textbooks. “I’m fascinated with how past designers had to come up with ideas and solve problems using limited resources,” he said. “Like, for instance, figuring out how two colors can work harder than four. It helps me get to better solutions myself.” While earning his BS/MA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University, Mikey became one of the founders of Little Jacket. He has received awards from Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, HOW, CMYK, Logo Lounge, Print’s New Visual Artist and most recently ADC Young Guns. Mikey now lives in sunny Philadelphia where he enjoys the myriad culinary delights of his adopted hometown, and continues to nurture his lifelong obsession with bears, which are “so cute and lovable, but probably the most dangerous animals ever.”
Partial Client List
The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, GOOD, Wired Magazine (US, UK, and Italy), AARP, Ogilvy, Arnold Worldwide, Facebook, Wilco, Money Magazine, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, Jen Bekman Projects (20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot!), House of Blues, MTV2, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel, Spoon (the band), Redbox, Yahoo, Zig Zag
Brett Warren
Born and raised in the rolling hills of Tennessee, Brett began to pursue his goals and dreams with photography at an early age. With a constant drive for the pursuit of developing his photography skills, Brett ventured out of Tennessee with bags packed for New York City to study with Annie Leibovitz. Brett now resides in Nashville, TN creating his own work.
Brett loves encouraging people to dream with his photography, and create a cinematic world the viewer can escape to. He is currently pursuing Fashion, Portrait, and Art Photography. Brett takes special interests in all aspects of his work. He is just as interested in building the sets, creating the costumes, styling, as he is in the final product… the pictures.
Daniel Dejan
Daniel Dejan is the National Print & Creative Specialist for Sappi Fine Paper. In this position Mr. Dejan provides value-added marketing, sales and technical consultation as well as conducting internal and external educational programs to the print and creative communities. He comes to this position after 30 years as an award-winning graphic designer, art director, creative director, print production manager and buyer.
A dedicated graphics arts educator and author with many years of national and international experience Mr. Dejan has been invited to judge numerous graphic design and print competitions, written extensively for graphic arts trade publications and has sat on the Board of several graphic arts associations and companies.
Kyle Jones
Kyle Jones is a motion graphics designer and illustrator living in beautiful Nashville, TN. He made the shift from webdesign to motion graphics a few years ago and has never, well… occasionally, looked back. After graduating from MTSU, he interned in NYC before coming back to Nashville where he is currently the Creative Director at Fivestone Studios. He has a real passion for animation, illustration, and typography (see Haafe & Haph) and loves being creative for a living.
Kathryn Harmon
Kathryn “Katie” Harmon is a native to the rolling hills of Appalachia Georgia. She played by the rules and got a BA in Art, recruited for an arts college, and then ran off to the wacky wonderful San Francisco for a brief stint.
After joining a subculture, off-the-grid, vegan restaurant in the Bay area and toying with changing her name to “Native”, she was reeled back home by family and friends.
Her heart now resides outside her body both in San Francisco and in her beautiful, happy baby girl.
Her name is still Katie, but you can call her Kathryn. And she is happiest with paint splattered on her jeans, helping other people run away from home to join the Circus and giving kisses to her baby girl and partner Derek. No topic is off-limits with her. So if you want to talk religion, politics, physics or yoga she’s your gal.