Mike N Garrett

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Mike Says: Company picnic with @Lindsay_benson and the dog. Then it's off to va beach.

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Mike is currently moving to Northern Virginia, where he will work for M Power Player MPlayIt.

He was also featured on Inspired Magazine.



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The Meade Law Firm

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VCU Art History Department

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Graduation ‘09

On Saturday, May 16th 2009 at 2 PM EST Michael Noel Garrett Graduated Cum Laude from Virginia’s Commonwealth University with a BFA in Graphic Design. His friends and family were incredibly surprised.


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Featured as DCTH designer: Week 3

DCTH is a community of designers that meet each week on Twitter to discuss what’s on the minds of designers around the world. I was featured on their web site in an interview with Chad Engle. Continue


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Featured on Mephobox

KernMe was featured on web site archiver, Mephobox. They liked my identity mark.


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Books-a-Printing

My first book, Hamletter is a project I produced based on experimental typography. I took a stanza from Hamlet, broke down the lines into words and created each word from household items. The result has been called “stunning.”

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Company picnic with @Lindsay_benson and the dog. Then it's off to va beach.

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Listened to 47 songs.
at 4:07pm from Last.fm
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Cool pole. Can you see it? - Photo: http://bkite.com/099gD

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Acoustic version of Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk. I love it. Simply incredible lyrics. Seriously. ♫ http://blip.fm/~98pwo

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I FOUND IT! This was such a hard song to find. It's not online anywhere. It's a really addicting song. Moving P... ♫ http://blip.fm/~98pnm

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The life and death of John Dillinger - Floyd Lloyd. You know... the same guy The Dillinger Escape Plan is named... ♫ http://blip.fm/~98di5

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Listened to 44 songs.
at 10:03pm from Last.fm
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Free car wash from big storm, inc - Photo: http://bkite.com/098d7

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Publisher?!?!!?? Are you serious? How do I even open this?

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Shared Bono Gets Laser Jacket, Public Probably Gets Eye Damage [Lasers] 4:19pm | via Google Reader
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Shared FI A 08_01.jpg 431 × 566 pikseliä 2:29pm | via Google Reader
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Shared Blue Thousand and One 2:19pm | via Google Reader
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Shared CHRISTOPH MORLINGHAUS 2:07pm | via Google Reader
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Shared Matt Dorfman’s News + Sketches + Accidents » Married. 1:39pm | via Google Reader
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Watched Mental - s1 | e5 - Roles Of Engagement
at 1:18pm from Hulu

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Site designed and built by Mike N Garrett. Soon to be Valid xHTML & CSS

Designer

Hello@KernMe.org

757.377.7859

Objective

I am a designer looking for a firm interested in lifetime learners, question seekers and innovative problem solvers.


Experience

Web Consultant, VCU Dean of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Responsible for maintaining and building the Art History Department�s Web presence. Researched and built Web applications for the promotion of VCU Arts.

2008–2009

Apple Campus Rep, Volt Services Group, Richmond, Virginia

Promoted Apple products to VCU. Acted as a resource for support to students and faculty.

2006–2008

Music Director and Manager, WVCW, Richmond, Virginia

Managed operations on a day-to-day basis. Accomplished more in two years than what was completed in the last ten.

2006–2009

Graphic Design Intern, WAVY-TV, Portsmouth, Virginia

Summer internship at a local news station. Trusted to contribute equally with the full time employees, making on air graphics, promotional materials and identity design.

2007

Additional Experience

Objects+Methods

Lecture series at VCU with guests including Massimo Vignelli, Ivan Chermayeff and Chaz Maviyane-Davies.

2006–2009

Tasmeem Design Conference

International design conference, Tasmeem, in Doha, Qatar where I participated and presented a charette-style project on the problems with transportation in a growing city.

2008

Education

Norfolk Academy, High School
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Studied Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Graphic Design

2004
2005
2009

Range of Design Skills

Adobe CS4, Web design concepts and coding, identity design, typography, Web standards, usability, accessibility, team building, the grid and commercial printing.


Technical Expertise

XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, CSS 2 & 3, HTML 5/XHTML 5, Processing, Actionscript 2, Blueprint and similar CSS frameworks, jQuery


References available upon request