For the most part, I view the world as a source of raw material to process and utilize however I see fit, for the purpose of creating something new.

Born as Jason Cale Burr on September 3, 1970 in Longview Washington, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. It was February 1988 when I landed my first actual job as a graphic artist with a screen printing company. I was still in high school and had to draw everything by hand. No computers.

Out of high school I earned my Associates degree at the local community college, Lower Columbia College. It was while I was at LCC that I was introduced to the Macintosh computer. I fell in love immediately and now do almost all of my projects on computer.

While going through school I worked as an artist for Screen Print Northwest, which provided the opportunity to begin building and using my computer design skills for practical purposes.

During the fall of 1991, I moved to Bellingham Washington to attend Western Washington University. It was then that started going by my middle name, Cale. In Spring of 1994, I graduated magna cum laude from Western with a B.A. in Visual Communication, where I concentrated in computer graphics, illustration and multimedia.

After graduating, I continued to live in Bellingham and worked as an illustrator and designer for an advertising agency named Wright, Hart & Mather. Later I began working for Media Access Internet Solutions, a Web development company.

During the summer of 1999, I moved to Bellevue Washington where I continued to work for Media Access as a graphic artist.

January of 2002 I began working as the Lead Designer for ioCreative. I also do a number of other projects on the side, mostly to help finance my music habits. In the summer of 2004 I moved back to Bellingham.

When I am not at my computer illustrating or designing, I enjoy playing racquetball (a lot of racquetball), going to concerts, making music, going snowboarding, and studying origins. Pizza and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream rank high on my list of calorie replenishing guilty pleasures.

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– Cale