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Design Studio featuring the Artwork of Ken Hartsell

About Me

Welcome to Humhaus!! Your One Stop Creative Shop. I am a Designer/Artist and Humhaus is my Design Studio. Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Programmer(hack), Illustrator, Photographer... combine all that - and thats kind of what I do. Humhaus is my current creative outlet.

Humhaus is a Design Studio located in Saint Louis. Humhaus is named after Hum my dog a red long-haired dachsund and Haus is Deutsch (german) for studio, sorry Hannah (the other dachsund)

Humhaus @ YouTube :: youtube.com/humhaus

The following portfolio|slideshow is an overview of my creative work:

The following is my demo reel of sorts on YouTube:

My Interests

I like Graphic Design alot, because it combines numerous disciplines...

I like all things Art:

- Web Design/Development
- New Media
- Online Guerrilla Marketing
- Flash and Motion Graphics

- Graphic Design/Print Design
- Illustration
- Typography
- Graffiti
- Technical Illustration

- Filmmaking
- DV and 3D
- Animation

- Photography
- Painting

I'd like to meet:

People who aren't asleep in life... In no particular order; Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction), Eric Jordan (2advanced.com) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill). If I had a time machine; Salvador Dali, Jack Kerouac, MC Escher, Hunter S. Thompson, Da Vinci, Van Gogh

Music:

DUB on Stylou Radio at pandora.com/people/stylou314

Music I like to listen to:

- Tori Amos
- Band of Gypsies (Jimi Hendrix)
- John Coltrane
- CCR
- Dieselboy
- Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction)
- Fatboy Slim
- Fugazi
- Billie Holiday
- Idlewild
- Iron and Wine
- Lovage (Mike Patton)
- Radiohead
- Sublime
- Howlin Wolf

Movies:

Movies that don't follow the hollywood cookie cutter:

- Amelie
- Apocalypse Now
- Blade Runner
- The Big Lebowski
- The Doors
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fight Club
- Four Rooms
- Ghost in the Shell
- Kill Bill
- Pulp Fiction
- Samurai Champloo
- Snatch

Television:

No seriously, once you realize what a waste of time it is, go into the next room and throw your TV out the window.

Books:

I have enjoyed in the past reading books by the following authors; Jack Kerouac, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, JRR Tolkien, Bill Watterson.

Heroes:

My little Sister and Granby

My Blog

New Client Website Published

Client: Saint Louis Group Design/Build, Inc.Website:saintlouisgroupdesignbuild.comI recently had the opportunity to work with Howard Glickman whose architecture work has been nationally recognized (HG...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:47:00 PST

Stylou @ the Atomic Cowboy

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Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:04:00 PST

Humhaus invited to do LIVE ART at the Atomic Cowboy

Crazy Live Art by: PL@STiC B12 Mr. Unknown Calc2 Mamablu Humhaus Jaxon ...and more!**any artist are welcome to come out and rock out the art. 573-822-2221 for more info....
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:01:00 PST

Greenville College Task Force Group [Schools Colors]

I was sent an e-mail the other day for help with a school project about colors. So I wrote them back my thoughts....and here's what they wrote me back.Thank you so much for your response. We all got...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:21:00 PST

Zwecklos Photography

Some of my Photography:Photo Gallery 01 | Garden of the GodsPhoto Gallery 02 | Almost Garden of the Gods...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:21:00 PST

Portfolio of Online Sites

The following represents a sampling of my online creative work:Anchor Mill Inn | Bed & Breakfast in Augusta, MOsite: anchormillinn.comCarlyle Lakefront Cottages | Cottages on Carlyle Lake, ILsite: car...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:46:00 PST

Style and Substance

Can the wheel be reinvented? Can one truly step outside the box? Is anything ever really new? Sometimes I'll find inspiration in movies... for creativity...I'm always fascinated by art that defys t...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

Stylou | The Style of Saint Louis

Besides working on Humhaus; I am currently collaborating with Stylou, a new design company based out of Saint Louis.They have real interesting concepts and business ideas. To find out more informatio...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:55:00 PST

Online Statistics

I was working on a side project off of the server - and my friend was like,"you got 94 unique visits yesterday"... I was like "huh"... he was right. It baffles me, that on any given day - I have 61 ...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:16:00 PST

Passing of Time

My Grandma passed away this past week... She was 97. The first time - the passing of someone close to me. She was born in 1911 and witnessed the modern world change. Some of my best childhood mem...
Posted by Humhaus | (Hh) on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:20:00 PST