Julia Jenson
Graphic Design

Some would say my Libra birth sign describes me to a T: Perfectly comfortable with duality and ambiguity, I often find myself carefully weighing different viewpoints. I’ve always harbored a profound mistrust of rigidity, so the ever-mutable nature of digital art suits me better than any other medium. At the same time, extensive reflection seasoned with irreverence and humor informs my work more than anything else. There’s nothing more satisfying than challenging the status quo, lampooning ossified worldviews, or exploring — and maybe exploding — the ideas that have shaped our society’s collective myth. In a nutshell, I have a hard time taking the world very seriously.

I moved to Indiana when I was seven. My father, an Iowan by birth, always said that this was the closest he’d ever live to New York City. I’ve been a Hoosier ever since, always learning more about the complex rhythm and flow of this part of the world.

I majored in English and minored in history at Indiana University, specializing in the literatures and cultures of Medieval Europe.

After a terrifying experience in a high school programming class, I swore off computers for years, opting instead for a low-tech machine for writing my college papers. I received my first computer — a Mac IIsi — in 1993 after my sadly abused word processor died, and went to work at a greeting card company for a time. A few classes in art and design followed, and I’ve been exploring ever since.