About
Tyler Sticka is a designer, artist, speaker, educator and Senior Experience Designer at Waggener Edstrom Studio D.
Apprenticed at the Art Center College of Design while still in high school, the prospects of the web and new media enticed him to earn a Bachelor of Science in Interactive Media Design from the Art Institute of Portland. He has since produced work for clients such as Microsoft, McAfee, Providence Health & Services, Synnex and many more. He is the creator of the award-winning Twitter mashups Portwiture and TweetPlus. His Flash game Ramps was a featured Download Squad “time waster” and has been enjoyed by nearly a million players on this site alone.
Always enthusiastic to share his ideas and stimulate discussion, Tyler has taught design, typography and web standards classes at the Art Institute of Portland, and has presented his thoughts on interaction design, comics and modern art at WebVisions, DevGroup NW, Refresh Portland and WordCamp Portland.
As an illustrator, Tyler has donated art to the Webcomics Hurricane Relief (which raised nearly $30,000 for victims of Katrina) and the autism benefit Bots, where his work was displayed alongside that of Heroes production artist Tim Sale. His cartooning and portraiture work, laser-etched onto household objects, was the subject of the “Cartoon Commodities” show in Portland. His expressive graffiti typeface Hip Slop was featured in the August 2009 issue of Digital Arts.
After deadlines are met, Tyler possesses a great affinity for comic books and rock n’ roll. His favorite bands are Blur, Pixies and Talking Heads.
