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Hey, I’m Switch
Visuals designer
picture drawer
Capital letter disliker
Terminally online
Probable PNW cryptid
Short on time? Check out some of my fave projects here
Aera Branding My Famicase
Queer Deers
Otherwise you can narrow down what you’re looking for here
Motion
Packaging
Illustration
Print
Type
Game
Branding
I’m Switch Hart
[they/them]where?
SoonMaybe with you? Is it cool where you work? Do you like it?
Currently
aeraforhome—Since Sept 2019
Freelance—Since Always
Previously
Privateer Press—Aug 2017–Aug 2019
how?
Drop a line If you’re interested in working with me, would like more info, or just wanna say hello, I’d love to hear from you!My resume—
I’m online lots of places but here’s a few to check out—
or email me directly here—
Who?
I'm a multi-disciplinary visual designer dabbling in just about every area in the field of art and design. I like doing lots of different stuff!You probably already know I’m a designer if you’re here, here’s some other stuff:
- Portal gun collector
- Confident I could easily own up to 5 chinchillas
- haunted by a lucario in my closet
- Criticizing your Minecraft farms from my secret base in your dirt house
- normal about lock-picking
- regularly threatening my friends with starting a podcast
- Em Dash enthusiast
- drawing every day-er
- houseplant curious
- Pretty sure I wouldn’t crash a drone on my first try
why?
I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up.
I had so many dinosaur encyclopedias, dinosaur toys, and I was only a little afraid of Jurassic Park. I got older, my interests shifted, I found out you spend a lot of time outside in the middle of nowhere digging if you’re a paleontologist and I was an indoor kid.
I developed an interest in video games. I played them on and off growing up but it wasn’t a huge draw for me, some Tetris, a little Pokemon, a smidge of Tony Hawk. Until a friend in eighth grade told me to play Halo 2 with him, then it was all over.
Games were so much more vast and social than I realized and I was hooked. Suddenly I wanted to be a coder, I wanted to be part of game dev. Even though I never cared much for math, and I’d never done any sort of coding, at all. I pivoted my high school career, took more math than I needed and maybe it was over-exertion or maybe it was my steadily declining mental health, senior year I abruptly realized I don’t want to be a coder.
I took several art classes throughout K–12. I was one of the few kids who never stopped drawing as they got older. I just liked it, it was nice to make something and show friends [or hide from friends and desperately hope they want to see it and ask you directly]. High school art classes weren’t clicking for me, I liked drawing but I had so little confidence and the classes were so big I could barely get help from teachers.
I took a couple of introductory Graphic Design classes through a program with a local community college. I was fumbling through photoshop and illustrator and having a blast. Unfortunately I was still a high schooler so I couldn’t see the obvious then.
I wanted to do game dev, but I couldn’t bring myself to be a coder, and I didn’t see myself as talented enough for the artistic half. I was at a standstill, I graduated school without a plan for college whatsoever.
I wanted to be anywhere else. Which unfortunately brought me to Arizona, but I had time to think. I tried a bit of schooling but I needed to be anywhere else, again. I wanted to move to Seattle, I wanted mild weather and was still a little obsessive about game dev proximity. I checked out two schools when I visited, Digipen and Cornish College of the Arts. The former I was certain was my pick, the latter I was just curious about.
The differences between the schools were night and day, I knew college wasn’t forever but 4 years is a long time especially when you’re starting later than everyone else. I had to pick the one I knew would be best for me, Cornish.
I signed up for the Cornish tour as interested in the Art department, but it wasn’t until they went over the Graphic Design department that it suddenly clicked. That was where I wanted to be.
Digital programs and design systems are where I thrived. A careful line of technical and artistic precision. Graphic design had always been the direction I wanted to go.