Graphic Design

Although photography is my first love, the bulk of my career has been spent pushing pixels, tracking text and proofing PDFs.

It all started when I was buying groceries at HEB and noticed the latest issue of Texas Monthly. On the cover was a blacktop road heading straight off into the desert — Freedom! 16 Summer Drives. I grabbed the magazine — I still have it on my shelf — and flipped through the pages. I knew then that I wanted to do it all: write, photograph and design. Magazine was the dream. It still is. I’ll build another one some day.

Check out the following selection of design work, from layouts to t-shirts.

AgriLeader

During my last semester at Texas A&M, I served as the lead graphic design for the AgriLeader — the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’s bi-yearly publication. It’s still some of the most fun (besides Namibia) I’ve had in a college course. Download the Spring 2017 issue of AgriLeader.

Newspaper

If you ever hear me say, “I miss being in a newsroom,” just know that the feeling is fleeting and I’m quite happy where I am. Newspaper design was probably my favorite job. I worked on large market papers like The Columbus Dispatch, The Arizona Republic and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The nature of newspaper meant I could wake up a tad later than most, get a good gym session in, a decent late breakfast and then crack on for eight hours just pushing pixels. Perfect.

And I really do miss being in a newsroom.

T-Shirts and Logos

Creative Houman

Creative Houman is a personal project of mine. I’m quite fond of the name and hope to one day use it for something fun.