Daniel Crask, Graphic Designer
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Intentional. I've been a graphic designer since I was 13. My high school included graphic design in its vocational curriculum, and I found it to be a wonderful combination of art and mechanics. By the time I earned my Bachelor of Arts, I had been on dozens of press checks and had been taking ideas from my head to press for years.

Introspective. Picture a 7-year-old boy, blonde hair and blue eyes, sitting with his grandmother at a table seven times his age. Markers, pens, pencils and colored chalk lay scattered about, partially covering drawings of horses, barns and family. Outside, cousins are running wild in the yard; inside, this boy's imagination is running wild.

Tenacious. I prefer the driver's seat, accelerating and braking through life's journey. Along the way discovering remnants of the great artists who've gone before me: Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Raymond Lowey, Hans Arp, Charles Rene Macintosh and many others. It's their relationship to their art that gives me the courage and reason to continue on until I find my relationship with the art I create.

Mechanical. Having a personality that is very detail-oriented serves me well as a graphic designer. I've even been called a "neat freak," but since the design process calls for blending form and function, I can't see this being a bad quality. To me the fundamental purpose of design is to create beauty out of a mess (or a potential mess). As part of Tandem Design, I take this purpose to heart.