Name: Paul Kalousek
Location: Portland, OR
Education: Western Washington University
Contact: paulkalousek@gmail.com
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Hi! I'm glad you stopped by to view my work. I'm looking for new creative-professional opportunities and created this site to introduce my capabilities as a designer and entrepreneur.

I'm motivated to bring about meaningful impact in the lives of others. I believe emotion and culture are at the core of our experiences, and work through this lens to connect the dots between ideas, services, products, and people. Aesthetic harmony and functional convenience are key, the former serving the latter.

Through eight years of independently designing, manufacturing, and marketing products for smokeheir.com I learned that integrating these processes is the key to delivering products that are holistically considered and authentically intentional. You can't market slop, nor can you sell ugly. As a designer I value simplification in pursuit of efficient development, manufacturing quality, and ultimately a more beautiful result.

Among my proudest achievements...

• Creating an ecosystem of essentials for the modern cannabis enthusiast, a recognized and trusted brand in the process, and serving customers with extensive gratitude and generosity
• Dedicating a share of annual profits to immigrant artists and cannabis justice reform
• Travelling and recreating in the Pacific Northwest and finding a home amongst other pioneering spirits found here
• Adapting my lifestyle after the onset of two autoimmune diseases, and bettering my mental and physical health in the process.

I'm comfortable wearing many different hats - digital to physical, marketing to mechanical engineering, creative to operational, siloed to collaborative - and would call myself a designer with an entrepreneurial skillset. Let's chat and see where we can get started together.