He is the creator of the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard and the mobile storytelling project CellStories and was the founder of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet and the editor of its line of books, Punk Planet Books. He is also a graphic designer whose design for Joe Meno's "Hairstyles of the Damned" was named one of the 25 "new classic" book covers of the last 25 years by Entertainment Weekly. He was a 2007-08 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where he studied the impact of mobile technologies on traditional publishing models, and recieved his BFA in video production and new media from the School of the Art Institute in 1996.