Jacob picked up a pencil when he was 3 years old and never let go. Growing up in small town Walkersville, MD, surrounded by cows and corn, made him restless. Seeing the Coast Guard as a way out Jacob joined in 1997, turning 19 in boot camp. He spent a year in Hawaii doing search and rescue missions before moving to Pittsburgh and becoming an environmental safety officer where he traveled to local schools and taught the importance of keeping our water clean.

He attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and received his bachelors degree in graphic design. Hungry for work Jacob decided to move to New York and within a year landed his first published piece which was the cover of Communication Arts.

His philosophy in art and life is "the little details make the big picture."

Continential, The New Yorker, L'Oreal, Bath and Body Works, American International Group (AIG), Forbes Magazine USA, Forbes Magazine Arabia, Forbes Magazine Nihonban, CIO Insight Magazine, Boys Life, Boxigami Books, Ralph Lauren, Spark Creative, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Boston's Weekly Dig, Plan Advisor Magazine, University of Pittsburgh, Tantric Night Club, Continental Airlines, American Lawyer Media, The Washington Post, Vibe Magazine, Pitt Med Magazine and Law Inc.

Society of Illustrators, CA Illustration Annual #46 (Cover & 5 inside), CA Fresh Section, American Illustration, HOW International Design Annual, Print's Regional Design Annual, Selected for Semi-Permanent Annual Book.

Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Hokusai, Emory Douglas, John Ritter The Wrestler, Sin City, Kill Bill 1, Anything that has creative, over the top carnage. Movies with any of these actors in them: Seth Rogen, Jason Schwartzman, Brad Pitt, Bill Murray, Michael Cera, Ellen Page, Movies made by Wes Anderson Stefan Klein, Phd, Augusten Burroughs, Dalai Lama, Ernest Hemingway, Early on I read a lot of Stephen King, not so much anymore I'm actually a magazine junky. I have way too many subscriptions. That said I am a picture guy so 3x3, Juxtapose, Comm Arts are probably at the top of my list. As for books pretty much any audio book I can get my hands on. The Shack, Man At Sea. A lot of self help stuff like Do the Tao Now!, Science of Happiness. Everything bagels w/ cream cheese, Pastries. My mom's chocolate chip cookies hands down has to be #1 addiction Miles Davis, Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Eddie Vedder, my friend Flanagan Smith I get sucked into the celebrity play lists on iTunes.

Reading, Running, Drawing, eating right, NY, nature, my friends & my family, people in general, The Coast Guard, my past

"Break through the wall of can't" (used when I'm running long distance)
"Be Honest, Be Happy" . . . 2 things that are at the core of what I think life is about