Hi. I'm Grant. I'm an award winning conceptual creative, technologist, and software engineer. I've got 13 years of professional experience, 6 in a creative role.
I dream up and build things that solve problems and get attention for brands. Brief me and I will repay you with a boatload of ideas. I've made websites, mobile apps, chat bots, a robot, an RPG-like e-commerce experience, a dark web marketplace, a Minecraft plugin, and many other things. I will do anything in my power to bring a good idea to life.
I'll work with a partner or solo on any brief where you're looking for tech-forward non-traditional thinking. I have big ideas across mediums. I'm great at pitches. I can provide technical consulting and feasibility analysis for ideas. I'm based in sunny Portland, OR but I'm available to work across time and space via the power of the Internet.
Coding (full-stack), prototyping, software engineering, copywriting, photoshop, web design, art direction, creative direction, technical direction.
KFC, Verizon, Nike, Old Spice, Coca-Cola, Soylent, Anki Robotics, RXBar
We made Colonel Sanders into a virtual influencer. A hot, young, virtual influencer.
He took over KFC's Instagram for two weeks and did influencer things -- hanging with his celebrity friends, promoting his favorite brands #ad, inspiring his fans with his #SecretRecipeForSuccess, and showing off his fabulous lifestyle.
Colonel Sanders will do anything to sell fried chicken. Including attempting to name moons after rooster from Norse myth.
The Carnegie Institute for science held a contest to name the newly discovered moons around Saturn. Michael and I made sure the Colonel had a rock solid entry. Neil Degrasse Tyson approved and I got to art direct a cool painting by frequent Magic: The Gathering artist Chase Stone.
We built a series of escape rooms inspired by different subreddits and challenged Redditors to help Anki's robot Cozmo succeed or fail to escape them.
The whole thing was streamed live across Reddit.
We brought the Colonel back to the drive-thru by designing & building an voice-changing animatronic robot that integrates with a real drive-thru system.
The robot would repeat anything the drive through operator said in the voice of Colonel Sanders.
HARLAND appeared in a segment on Kimmel.
Ansel wanted to make the first music video you have to headbang to watch. So, I helped him figure out how.
Then, my team (stephen, mike et. al) and I made it for stoner metal band Red Fang. I was technical director and consulted on game design.
We used the game to release the single Antidote for the band.
We built a market on the dark web for Soylent's core audience of early adopters (the kind of folks who would drink a complete meal replacement designed by a software engineer or buy nootropics on the dark web). You could use Bitcoin to buy the rarest and most special Soylent products.
The design, product listings, and stealth packaging were inspired by real dark web marketplaces.
As you know, peeing is boring and bathrooms are boring.
So Pablo and I set out to solve this problem by making a VR experience where you can pee anywhere while actually peeing in the safety of a real bathroom.
We extended Verizon's network into Minecraft because video games are one of the few places the network doesn't already cover. We created a working block-based cell phone for Minecraft -- powered by custom plugins that turned photos, video and websites into blocks.
YouTubers made video calls, browsed the web, sent selfies, and ordered pizza without leaving the game.