Bio

Born and raised in Oakland, Daniel’s style of freehand line drawing continues to evolve with each new GrassRoutes guide. His art has been shown at several galleries, design studios, and cafes. Daniel studied anthropology at UC Berkeley, where he learned to see beyond the superficial by putting aside preconceived notions. He can be found zipping around the streets of Oakland and San Francisco on his speedy bike, scaling the bouldering walls at the local climbing gym, in the front row of a Sonic Youth concert, or buried in a book.

Illustration

I have contributed many freehand line-drawings to a sustainable travel guidebook series based in the Bay Area. The series highlights local business and eco-friendly activities and reveals the true heart of the destination. My work has also been featured in a coloring book produced by the Oakland Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.

GR Oakland & Berkeley

: AC Transit Bus

: Chez Panisse

: Fairyland

: Grand Lake Theater

: Lois The Pie Queen

: Monterey Market

: Swan’s Market

: Thai Buddhist Temple

: Tribune Tower

: Twig & Fig

GR Northern CA Wine Country

: Ad Hoc

: California Carnivores

: Copains

: Martini House

: Osmosis Day Spa

: Shambala Ranch

: Wildflower Bakery

: Les Chenes Winery

: Point Reyes Lighthouse

: Taco Truck

GR San Francisco

: Bay Bridge

: Boulette’s Larder

: The Buena Vista

: California St Cable Car

: City Lights Book Store

: Conservatory of Flowers

: Ferry Building

: The Filmore

: Gitane Restaurant

: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

GR Seattle

: Theo Chocolate

: The Saint

: Seattle Skyline

: Salumi

: Pike Place Fish Market

: Interbay P-Patch

: High Dive

: Gasworks Park

: The Fremont Troll

: Fairmont Olympic

GR Portland

: Broadway Books

: Burnside Skate Park

: Dava Bead

: Hollywood Theatre

: Moxie Rx

: Palio

: Hawthorne Bridge

: Pix Patisserie

: Powell’s Books

: Voodoo Doughnut

Graphic Design

As the Graphic Designer for GrassRoutes Travel, I have produced print work, advertisements, book covers, T-shirt designs and the company logo.

Logo & Branding

GrassRoutes Travel is a producer of sustainable travel guidebooks and web content featuring local businesses and conscientious activities and aligns itself with the D.I.Y. and Slow Food movements. The company needed a logo that evokes travel, but also symbolizes the grassroots mentality prevalent in the destinations it highlights.

Book Covers

The following are cover designs from the first editions of GrassRoutes Guidebooks. San Francisco, Oakland (including Berkeley), and Portland are now available as updated second editions from Sasquatch Books.

Web

I am currently the lead web developer at C3i3 Interactive and the web master for GrassRoutes Travel. The mock up designs I use are created in Adobe Fireworks and are hand-coded into cross-browser compliant HTML and CSS using Dreamweaver. Many of the templates I have created were developed to be used with the open-source blog software WordPress. I also implement animations and other interactive effects with the help of the Javascript library ‘jQuery’. When testing for compatibility, I use all major browsers including Firefox, Safari, IE7, IE8, IE9 and Opera.

Web Design

The following are websites I created from the design stages through to development and publication.