Christian is a co-founder and partner in The Decoder Ring, a quirky and spirited young studio located in the ever-evolving epicenter of Texan hipness: Austin. There he spends his days harvesting the aesthetics of our past and scrambling them with awkward sketches, happy accidents and big ideas. Part designer, part writer and part dance-machine, Christian is proof positive that you can become a success by being “kinda good” at a lot of different things.

Beginning his career as an intern for Michael Beirut at Pentagram NY, Christian went on to blaze an unremarkable trail through Manhattan before serving as a founding member of John Bielenberg’s socially-conscious design collective, Project M. His obsessive sketching and perpetual motion has resulted in award-winning work for clients ranging from Wilco and Modest Mouse to Leo Burnett and Toyota.

Christian’s served as a juror for the Communication Arts Design Annual, designed packaging that’s debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts and his work has received awards and publication by a host of esteemed entities including Communication Arts, Graphis, Step Inside Design, ID, Print, Metropolis— not to mention the Bessemer City, NC chapter of the Benevolent Knights of Pythias.