2024 marks 30 years since I opened my custom design and fabrication studio, now called Huckmade, in Atlanta, GA. 

It's been a wonderful journey, with lots of twists and turns, but has always remained focused on my core mission of designing and making objects for one customer at a time, never mass producing or outsourcing.  At the same time striving to learn new skills and perfecting my craft.

Some of my career highlights:
- Designing event environments for the 1996 Olympics

- Retail and restaurant design and fabrication

- Working on-site for the US Navy in Japan
- Working in Taiwan

- Exhibiting sculpture in galleries and museums
- Working collaboratively with Ryan Gainey for 20 years
- Designing control rooms for the US military
- Designing control rooms for 1/2 of the nuclear power plants

  currently installed in the US
- Designing the security center for every Smithsonian facility
  globally (there are more than 40)
- Designing and making garments for some of my favorite
  people and my musical influencers 
- Having the maturity and stability to tell irrational customers

  that they are not welcome and ending toxic interactions 
- Making embroidered objects for some of my favorite brands

- Teaching more than 75 people from around the world how to

  operate antique embroidery machines
- For more than 3 1/2 years co-hosting a bi-weekly IG live
about small business, chaninstitch and records
- And most importantly, the ability to make my own schedule and pick my own jobs, always prioritizing my wife and kids (and dog) over studio work.

It's a great feeling to know that you have achieved all your professional goals and that everything you do now is just bonus work for the fun of it.