Creative Director & Web Developer
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Robot at Robot Loves Kitten
- Creative Director at Compete to Conserve
- Creative Director & Founding Partner at SMITH Magazine
- Past
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- Online General Manager at Portland Monthly
- Founding Partner at Thinkcorps
- Technology Editor at Wired Digital, Hotwired.com
- Editor at Wired Magazine
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania
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Tim Barkow’s Summary
My hats include creative director, interaction designer, and Web developer. I love design and code, but I like to focus on the experience created when the two meet. I like smart interactive environments with strong interactive fundamentals, and pushing the envelope where possible. My background covers design, development, programming, marketing, management, strategy & planning, editing, copywriting, and copyediting.
At SMITH, created the New York Times Bestseller "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure" (HarperPerennial). Also, the SMITH-produced graphic novels, "Shooting War" (Grand Central) and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon).
Tim Barkow’s Specialties:
Web project management, development, graphic & interaction design. Technology writing and editing. Consumer packaged goods & technology marketing, advertising, technical copywriting. HTML, Javascript, PHP, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails, among others. Robots, kittens.
Tim Barkow’s Experience
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Robot
Robot Loves Kitten
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Lead a boutique Web application design and development studio, specializing in community and information visualization.
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Creative Director
Compete to Conserve
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Currently in charge of all design and development. Compete to Conserve is a sustainability community for the rest of us. We're focused on helping you integrate sustainable solutions and practices into your life by helping you keep tabs on your goals and progress, as well as have fun by challenging other community members.
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Creative Director & Founding Partner
SMITH Magazine
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Online magazine focused on conversational media. Produced the hit webcomics Shooting War (Warner Books 2007) and AD: After the Deluge, as well as NYTimes Bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning (Harper Collins 2008).
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Online General Manager
Portland Monthly
(Publishing industry)
July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)
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Founding Partner
Thinkcorps
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2004 (4 years 5 months)
Web design, development consultancy which began as more of a technical marketing consultancy.
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Technology Editor
Wired Digital, Hotwired.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
July 1997 — March 1998 (9 months)
Ran the technology channel at Wired News, supervising a small team of staff writers and freelance stringers creating technology news stories and features for Wired's online news site. Moving from a monthly magazine schedule to three publishing deadlines per day, I burned out pretty quickly, I'm afraid.
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Editor
Wired Magazine
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
September 1994 — July 1997 (2 years 11 months)
Tim Barkow’s Education
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University of Pennsylvania
BA, English, Mathematics, 1987 — 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- Daily Pennsylvanian, 34th Street magazine
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Tim Barkow’s Interests:
interaction design, furniture design, new media art, architecture, urban planning
Tim Barkow’s Groups:
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Tim Barkow’s Contact Settings
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