Overview
Hello, there! I'm Tristen. Nice to meet you!I'm a graphic designer from Portland, Oregon specializing in book design and product creation. I've worked for publishers creating large-format art books, children's books, coloring books, calendars, puzzles, and more. Have an idea of something you want to create? My job is to figure out how to make it.I'm more than just a designer though. I've studied the business of publishing for over 10 years. I have a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Communications and a master's degree in Book Publishing. I recently received a certificate in Digital Marketing Strategies. While my career has been in design, my educational background gives me a well-rounded approach and an understanding of how the industry functions as a whole.I've always been passionate about telling stories. I'm here to help yours get told.Questions? Let's chat!
Services
Non-Fiction
Art
Fiction
Picture Books
Languages
English
Awards
- Silver Medal - 2019 PubWest Book Design Awards for Eric Wert: Still Life
- Gold Medal - 2017 PubWest Book Design Awards for Owls & Loons
- Associated Collegiate Press 2009 Magazine Pacemaker in Feature/General Audience
Certifications
- B.S. Journalism and Communications
- M.S. Book Publishing
- Digital Marketing Strategies Certificate
Work experience
Pomegranate Communications
Mar, 2013 —
Apr, 2020
(about 7 years)
Audigy
Dec, 2020 —
Present
Beyond Words Publishing
Jan, 2012 —
Jun, 2012
(5 months)
Tin House Books
Sep, 2011 —
Dec, 2011
(3 months)
Ooligan Press
Sep, 2010 —
Nov, 2012
(about 2 years)
The Observer
Jun, 2009 —
Sep, 2009
(3 months)
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jan, 2008 —
Mar, 2009
(about 1 year)
Design Editor, August 2008—March 2009
Designer, April—July 2008
Copy Editor, January—March 2008
Flux Magazine
Mar, 2007 —
Jun, 2009
(over 2 years)
Art Associate, March 2007—June 2008
Portfolio
This board book blooms and buzzes with Lisa Houck's vibrant artwork and rhyming text. While the garden grows, little ones can count the flowers adding in two butterflies and a bug. They'll have fun learning their numbers while filling in the missing 8 and 9 on... read more
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would prefer to die peacefully at... read more
Written by Scott A. Shields and published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art in collaboration with the Crocker Art Museum, E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit presents more than one hundred fifty reproduc... read more
To Robert Rahway Zakanitch, life is full of ordinary miracles and the boundless beauty of humanity, which he expresses on paper and canvas in what essayist David Pagel calls a wild collision between freewheeling bohemian abandon and settled-down domestic socia... read more
These fascinating bugs and butterflies are fun to look at and fun to count! Arranged in artful patterns, they practically crawl or fly right off the pages. Discover Bugs that look like jewels or have legs like a frog. Wonder at Butterflies with wings that glow... read more
Way up north, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, Inuit artists at the Cape Dorset printmaking studios share their culture with the world through art. The Inuit treasure their language and stories, which often feature owls, loons, and other birds of the Arct... read more
Spirit, as Robert Bissell says, is nearly impossible to describe. It's full of magic and mystery, and you can find it only when you allow yourself to experience it firsthand. This is something best done in the natural world. Zoomorphism, using animals to show ... read more
Beth Van Hoesen: Fauna & Flora devotes two essays to the dutiful renderings of flowers and animals for which Van Hoesen is best known. Using curator, artist, and printer interviews alongside quotations from Van Hoesen's unpublished 1981 journal, Bob Hicks exam... read more
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri s enchanting, idiosyncratic, and curiously complex artworks explore the subterranean aspects of life love and relationships, secrets and obsessions all the while opening a window to what she calls the mysterious workshop of nature. In ... read more
Water wakes. Wildlife greets the day and finds shelter, safety, and fun on the river in this lyrical, ecologically oriented counting book. One willow flycatcher, two dragonflies, three kit foxes, and more thrive in their habitat. As kids count, the day turns f... read more
Silver Medal Winner, 2019 PubWest Book Design Awards Eric Wert's flowers, fruits, and vegetables are the stuff of a florist's or farmer's perfection-objects of incomparable beauty, hyperrealistic, radiant, and arranged in a tumult that's filled with life. With... read more
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