Hey, I’m Elliot.

I'm an Art Director on F5's Creative Strategy Team, where I lead customer-facing brand, campaign, and web work for a global cybersecurity company — everything from executive presentations to MARCOM banner ads, often in the same day. I work closely with marketing, engineering, and UX teams — and manage agency designers — to build expressive online experiences for the F5 brand

Before F5, I spent years as the visual brand voice for Puppet, and earlier still, cut my teeth at Portland design agencies working on Adidas, National Geographic, Wacom, and The North Face — high-stakes, high-craft work that taught me what "world-class" actually requires.

I studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and I've carried that training into every role since: a belief that B2B marketing can be every bit as creative, human, and visually ambitious as any consumer brand.

Designer

Creativity is at the heart of my design work. I love finding new ways to tackle problems and come up with fresh ideas. Communication is huge for me — I focus on telling a brand's story through visuals and words, and keeping the people I work with in the loop every step of the way. I stay curious, stay reliable, and mix artistic instinct with the patience to see a project through.

Photographer

I picked up my first camera at 8 — a Kodak point-and-shoot — and I've been looking at the world through a small rectangle ever since. It's a lens that's both limiting and freeing, simple yet complex, chaos and calm all in one. But above all, it captures a truth.

I shoot a bit of everything: landscapes, portraits, travel, events, night shots, textures, nature. I've directed multi-day corporate photo shoots, and I've slept on the side of a mountain in the Cascades to catch a clear night sky

I spend as much time in nature as I can.

It's my happy place. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest was a blessing — winters on Mt. Hood, summers on bikes, at the beach, or deep in the woods with family. That first smell of forest air when you step out of the car? Perfection.

These days, based in Seattle, that means dark-sky trips out to the Cascades as much as anything else — chasing clear nights and long exposures. I still love making things of beauty with my hands too: re-handling axes, carving wooden spoons, and grilling for the people I love.

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