Yo! I’m an artist, a metalhead and a bit of a beer nerd. I founded Inkseed in 2010, and I currently operate it additionally to my professional Artist alias Jody Ess.

I’ve been involved in the Graphic Design industry in one way or another my whole adult life. I grew up in Kalgoorlie Western Australia, and was one of many kids from such backgrounds that was typically told art isn’t a real job. So I pursued it via studying Graphic Design, Pre Press and Multimedia at Curtin VTEC when I left highschool.

Like most creatives, and in my pursuit to prove myself in general, I’ve also pursued a bunch of other passion career paths along the way. I’ve worked in bars since I was 18, leading to many bottle shop positions, qualified event operations and logistics, and then to my tickets in commercial brewing, packaging, distro and warehousing. I’ve done years of hectic summer seasons hand-loading equipment into trucks with no forklifts, site bump in-outs across WA, night shifts and chronically injuring myself. It was rewarding AF and I regret nothing.

Aside from one year of full-time Inkseed in 2011, I’ve always ran Inkseed adjacent. But nowadays I’m in a position where I am successfully living my creative era full-time, 100% all me.

My super powers include having an overactive imagination, thinking outside of the box, identifying fonts by eye, and identifying off-flavours in beer.

I will never stop creating, no matter what the platform or format – creating something new in the world that wouldn’t exist without you is pretty cool. I like being able to make a difference, and I couldn’t be happier getting to do what I love for a living.