The traveler.

Hi, I'm Steven. I'm a designer, photographer, and maker on the Oregon Coast.

I've been working in UX/UI, branding and packaging, print and photography for over 30 years now. Starting as a teenage entrepreneur with a small budget and a dream, I started a one-person agency with a focus on rebranding mom-and-pop shops in my hometown - designing primitive websites in the early 90s, logos, marketing materials, and specialized industrial label and form design. From there, I moved into my first Creative Director role, founded several more small agencies over the years, a handful of startups, co-founded Arkansas's first cooperatively-owned coworking & maker space, spearheaded tech conferences, and organized startup incubator competitions.

As Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Library Market, a Drupal-focused design and web agency serving public libraries across North America, I work on an amazing team of talented & passionate people that builds software and brands with an emphasis on ease-of-use and accessibility for all.

Vesper, my most recent launch, is an accessibility suite I'm building for freelance designers and developers - the goal is to make accessibility part of how teams already work, instead of an audit they dread once a quarter.

Emerald Curtain Collective is a nonprofit here on the coast that I co-founded with a group of friends to put all of our talents to work to save our amazing, unique ecosystems here on the Oregon Coast. These forests hold the key to not only our local survival, but also the survival of humanity. And they are in more danger than they have ever been before.

When it comes to making & exploring, I take full advantage of my ADHD and have become a true jack-of-all-trades: woodworking, electronics, 3D modeling & printing, laser engraving & cutting, CNC routing, puppet-making, leatherworking, product design & process planning, printing of all kinds, field recording & audio editing, overlanding, hiking, camping, kayaking, rockhounding, landscape photography, documentary photography - the list really does just go on and on. No one has ever accused me of not squeezing every drop out of my orbits around the sun.

If you'd like to work together or just say hi, hey@steventrotter.com.