About Me
My name is Michael Anthony.
Yes, I have two first names (four actually). I am an Art Director & Designer living and working just outside of Philadelphia.
“MEJA” are my initials, so there is really no correct pronunciation. My logo of the red lion holding the patriarchal cross is a combination of crests from my Irish & Slovakian heritage.
During my 3 years of Print experience followed by over 6 years of User Experience Design, I have gone from pure flash-sizzle right-brained design, to user centered left-brained design, and currently operate somewhere in the middle.
I have always enjoyed designing because the purpose of design is to solve problems. Design helps people. It communicates a message, gives directions, offers a place to sit down, to live, etc. Whatever the task, design uses form to solve problems. I like to solve problems.
Favorites & Skills
assorted skills
- • Decent self-taught guitarist
- • Basic welding abilitites
- • Accomplished whistler
- • Fire Devil-Stick juggling
- • Handy in the yard
- • Music trivia
- • Above average at Connect Four
assorted favorites
- • dark beers
- • Pulp Fiction
- • Siddhartha
- • Led Zeppelin
- • the Grateful Dead
- • Phillies baseball
- • soft pretzels
- • mint chocolate chip
- • spicy food
- • Cream
- • John Paul George Ringo
- • Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back
- • The Big Lebowski
- • Traveling
- • The Century of Self
- • Barry Schwartz: Paradox of Choice
professional skills
- • Art direction
- • Visualization of quantifiable data
- • User experience design
- • User interface design
- • Print design
- • Information Architecture
professional favorites
- • Garamond old style figures
- • Hand painted signs
- • Futura
- • the grid
- • Advertising from the 50s & 60s
- • Data design
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