Bill is a designer, photographer, artist, hiker, author, and co-founder of Tremendousness. Clients love his balance of analytical and creative thinking. His skills evolved through experiences designing magazines, working in newsrooms, as a founding partner of XPLANE, as well as a career spent collaborating with educators, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies.
He’s written two books (and been featured in dozens of others) and his offbeat creativity has earned him coverage in places like The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, NPR, The Guardian, and Advertising Age, placement in multiple books, in the curricula of Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Nottingham, guest appearances on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, exhibits at Cannes Lions, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and other museums, as well as spots onstage at TEDxVienna, Pecha Kucha STL, Society for News Design, and several other conferences.
When Bill isn’t backpacking long trails in the woods (so far: OT’19&’20, R2R’21, TRT’22, CLT’23, a section hike of the Oregon section of the PCT’24, plus KT’02&21 on a bike), or having adventures with his wife Diane, he’s almost certainly watching “Mystery Science Theater 3000” or “Rifftrax”. Originally (and unintentionally) from Ohio, he earned a BFA from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Bill lives in St. Louis with his wife Diane and their dog Cannonball (who very much lives up to his name) and has two wonderful kids in college.