I am Aaron Salmon, a jovial and talented web designer who embraces flexible, adaptable, standards-based web design. My personal life in Chicago is an abundance of loved ones, culture, the arts, music and inspiration.
An individual with many creative outlets, Aaron Salmon has a translucent sheet between his career and his personal life. Rather, he views his career as a primary outlet and facilitator for his learning, creativity, camaraderie and personal expression.
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With roots in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, raised in the Midwestern countryside, he was reared by two nomadic and curious individuals. His mother, a Fine Arts teacher, always had imaginative projects in store for him. His father, an amateur photographer and forthright entrepreneur, taught him countless, valuable lessons. Aaron's parents encouraged him to pursue a life full of rich personal experiences, awareness, creativity and love... which has become the constitution of his adult life. He has spent time traveling throughout Europe and North America, helping reinforce his desire to experience diverse perspectives, as well as cultural and philosophical influences he will embrace throughout his life.
Making his way to Chicago in 1999, he thrived amid the (dot)com gold rush-designing and producing websites and eCommerce solutions; creating online and CD-based learning applications, enriched opt-in email campaigns, and instructional design. He has been revelling in Chicago's metropolitan influence. He has explored many disciplines in a variety of field trips, classes and lectures; signed up for production assistant work on independent films; researched creative housing, social design and social entrepreneurship. He has mentored grade-schoolers in designing the internets of tomorrow. Volunteered his 'scare' to set up haunted houses at the YMCA. And donated his time and labor to Habitat for Humanity. In his spare time, Aaron can been seen enjoying photography, music, architecture, screen printing, politics, frisbee, coffee, cheap beer and blue cheese olive gin martinis.
From Bruce Mau's "Incomplete Manifesto"
#1. Allow events to change you. - You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
