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HI, MY NAME IS JOE.
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I make art about technology and technology about art.

My day job is making digital products, and I really love it: you can see that portfolio here.

My clients include Microsoft, Starbucks, SubPop Records, Nickelodeon, Disney, Adobe, the Democratic Party and many others. I've spoken at SXSW, San Diego Comic-con, the Seattle Interactive Conference, the Seoul International Cartoon Festival and many other venues about interactive art and creativity. My work has been featured and lauded in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The LA Times, The Seattle Times, The Atlantic, Art Forum, Tin House and many other publications.

I have a newsletter in which I send weekly comics, ideas, podcasts, talks, and sometimes even merch. You can subscribe here.

Reach out to me for speaking engagements or interesting project ideas.

I am not currently taking on new freelance projects at this time.

XO, Joe

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Ruppersberg at the Walker, MPLS. Image credit: Tim Lillis
JOE ALTERIO
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Primer Stories
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DESIGN NOTES
My creative partner Tim Lillis and myself had an idea in 2013: to make a place on the web that we wished existed. A website with thoughtful, intellectual stories that were heavily illustrated, a combination of art magazine, comics,. storyboards, dataviz, and animation a combination of Colors Magazine, the MIT Technology Review, and a web comic. There seemed to be a gap in which a site dedicate to strictly visual learning could thrive. Primer Stories web magazine was born.
The creation of not only a media brand but the underlying, heavily designed content beneath it was a task of herculean proportions. Both Tim and I spent many late nights crafting our internal and external communications, reaching out to writers, sketching what this odd odea was and how it should look, feel and act. In fact, the only thing that was not a challenge was the actual pencil-to-paper work; as difficult as it was, we loved every minute of it.
RESULTS
You can check out the entire archive site of our work at www.primerand.co/archives
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