Hi, I'm Mike. I'm the entire team.

It started, like a lot of things do, with comics.

In my early teens I became obsessed with Todd McFarlane’s work — his Spider-Man run, then Spawn — and spent most of my free time trying to draw like him. By the time high school was wrapping up, I had the sense to realize I probably wasn’t going to be the next McFarlane, but I knew design was where I belonged. I enrolled in the Graphic Design program at Durham College and never looked back.

After finishing I spent the better part of a decade working in-house at two different companies, learning what it actually takes to produce design that works in the real world. Then I went back to Durham College for the Internet Applications and Web Development program — graduating with honours — because the web was clearly where everything was heading and I wanted to understand it properly, not just fake it.

From there I moved into publishing, working with a significant publishing company before landing the role I’ve held for the past ten years — a position that has me collaborating with people all over the world on a daily basis.

Ashburn Media runs alongside all of that. It’s where I take on the kind of client work I find genuinely rewarding — helping small and mid-size businesses look and communicate as well as the bigger players do.