Hello there! I make things that are beautiful and easy to use.
I live behind a Volvo dealership in Portland, Ore.
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Andrew Witherspoon Making things beautiful and easy to use

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Wallpaper
Wallpaper

I decided to turn an artifact of  some explorations into a wallpaper. Download and enjoy!

W.D.W. 1
W.D.W. 1

The first of two wallpapers from a Death Valley/Grand Canyon trip with one William D. Wheeler in the summer of 2009. W.D.W. 1 (2560×1440)

W.D.W. 2
W.D.W. 2

The second of two wallpapers from a Death Valley/Grand Canyon trip with one William D. Wheeler in the summer of 2009. W.D.W. 2 (2560×1440)

Morocco 23
Morocco 23

A card I made for a friend’s 23 birthday which she spent in Morocco.

Everything will happen
Everything will happen

I was making art with my friend Harry the other night. We started with a photograph, he wrote a short poem, and then I riffed off of his writing. Fun times.

Senior Thesis: Shopping Experiment
Senior Thesis: Shopping Experiment
Project Porchlight Logos v.1
Project Porchlight Logos v.1

I’m bringing these drafts into class tomorrow for my redesign of Project Porchlight’s logo. I think these have potential, I’m interested in developing a “PP” icon out of the intertwined CFL tubes.

Just do it
Just do it

Sometimes when I’m tired of my monitor’s desktop I whip up a corny motivational poster to replace it. This time the advice comes from Design Observer and 37 Signals. I’m at a pivitol time here in SF, and I need to make the most of it. I’m shaking things up a bit. I recently accepted [...]

Project Porchlight Website
Project Porchlight Website <DRAFT>

This is the first draft for the homepage of what will eventually be a 12-15 page site. The main graphic is a placeholder for a short Flash intro movie that I’m wrapping up soon. A tentative final draft of the movie should be done by midweek. The main critique I’ve gotten so far from my [...]

‘I See The Earth’ Film Poster
'I See The Earth' Film Poster

This was the midterm assignment for my Concept and Design class. My goal was to design a movie poster for the documentary “I See the Earth” which debuted at Yuri’s Night last year in the Bay Area. I didn’t get to actually watch the whole film (it’s not been released) but I watched snippets on [...]

Giganto Fly
Giganto Fly

OBJECTIVE: Prove basic Illustrator proficiency by drawing an insect. I rectified my terrible sense of scale by naming my new species after its overwhelming size.

Cowan Lab T-shirt
Cowan Lab T-shirt

T-shirt design for the lab I’m working at this summer. As you can see, we are pretty badass.

Viget Design, the harmony of watercolor and grids
Viget Design, the harmony of watercolor and grids

Viget Design is an East-coast firm I recently discovered because of their unique inner-firm blog network. Each department of the 30-person firm – Strategy, Development, Marketing, and Design – has their own “lab blog” which is styled with a unique design. The design blog, titled Inspire, caught my eye initially for the expert execution of [...]