Hi. I’m Luke, the guy behind StudioRampage.

I’ve done a lot of things. Such as:

• Wrestled a poet on stage, shirtless, covered in poetry as the executive director of the (once) acclaimed experimental literary magazine, Revolver.
• Run a digital design agency with my wife, Kristy Hanson, called Hafi. We build website and optimize websites for AI for climate orgs, restaurants, prison reform orgs, podcasts, startups… Need a good, solid website? Hit us up.
• Published Book of Admiration with Kristy. Each creator received six copies of the book to share with whomever they wanted — meaning only 60 books will ever be published and distributed. What happens if we remove the pressure of sales / likes / engagement — what if we rejected scale outright — and slid into its place a piece of art to cherish and pass on to loved ones?
• Moved to Amsterdam three months before pandemic and then never left.
• Organized a series of dinners at Popol Vuh, a contemporary high-end Mexican restaurant (RIP), where we did an — god I hate this next word but it’s the best one — immersive reading of the Popol Vuh with translator Michael Bazzett and art collective Electric Machete. (Note: no one was immersed — there were no dunk tanks.)
• Worked for an insane real estate company that has decimated a major American metropolitan. Yes, I’m talking about Madison Equities. And being American, yes, my departure did involve guns.
• Designed The Dark Room, an investigation into myth-making, its process and the illumination of text by its discoverer, the reader at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
• Led US Operations for an IT security consultancy firm, running projects at General Mills, Apple, Rockwell Automation, and other Fortune 500s before we sold the company and I got out of Corporate America.
• Hiked the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal with my father and two of our pals. I nearly had to be hauled over the 5th highest pass in the world, Thorong La (5.4k meters / 17.8k feet) — thanks to an evening of drinking and eating curried goat with our sherpa and some Tibetan dudes in a tent. But thankfully, the fear of having to live down the eternal shame of being strapped to a donkey at the pinnacle moment of our trek drove me out of the sick bed. I got to see Muktinath, the gateway to the Forbidden Kingdom.

As you can see, it’s kinda all over the place.

StudioRampage is my attempt to bind it all together in a not-boring way.

Anyway, hope you enjoy.

Luke