Scotty Town - Designer
“Design is the method of putting form and content together.
Design, just as art, has multiple definitions;
there is no single definition.
Design can be art.
Design can be aesthetics.
Design is so simple,
that’s why it is so complicated.”
- Paul Rand
For long as I can remember I had the desire to be an artist. One of the earliest memories of creating art for a project, I was 9 and drew a superhero for a comic book named “Super Cop”. The illustration was of my new stepdad wearing a cape and police hat. He happened to be a Minneapolis police officer. This would be one of many projects sending me on my creative journey.
The conundrum of the “starving artist” and making art drove my education towards advertising design and marketing, albeit, communication distribution. This has all accumulated to the greatest respect to how color and design affect storytelling. From being a production artist, laying out a home design publication from scratch, or working on an interactive design for Target, I’ve always worked collaboratively with writers. Content, design, and color working together. The past 30 years of being a creative professional have also allowed me to continue my painting aspirations on a parallel timeline as the artist, Spleee. I’ve been inspired by artists and I’ve inspired artists while owning an art gallery in NE Minneapolis for ten years.
When I’m not being a visual creative you’ll find me playing guitar in the band Big Rhombus (we’ve been doing it for thirty years), teaching my daughter Arty how to play the guitar, or working on the house.
I live in Northeast Minneapolis with my wife Carisa, daughter Arty, son Arlo, dogs Burnzie and Oreo, and our cat Cupcake.