The Creative Space

Redefining the word “office.”

The Creative Space is a group of like-minded individuals out to make great work, together. We all work as one to push the local community through artistic and business endeavors while sharing space and cost.

The People

Cody Marx Bailey

Cody is a web strategy and user interface expert for Downtown Cartel. He is very active in pushing the cultural and economic development in Bryan/College Station.

Jeff Blickenstaff

Jeff Blickenstaff is the Media Director at Always Creative. He is also in a band called Two Capitals. His personal site is JeffBlickenstaff.com.

Chris Bratlien

Chris is currently studying languages such as Ruby, Smalltalk, and LISP/Scheme. He is also an avid guitar player and dabbles in electronic music, sampling, and drum machines.

Dean Brundage

Dean is employed by CSC, Inc. He is the resident home brewer and supplies the rest of the Creative Space with great brews. His personal site is deanandadie.net.

Ben Burkert

Ben is first and foremost a ruby programmer. He is a partner with Downtown Cartel and his personal website is BenBurkert.com.

Michael Cummings

Michael is a photographer and his photo site can be found at DreamInPictures.com. He also hosts Jelly in the Bryan area.

Bill Erickson

Bill is an entrepreneur and WordPress rockstar. He has a clothing line with Roby, Activist Apparel, and does new media consulting as Erickson Media Group. His personal site is BillErickson.net

Aaron Farnham

Aaron has produced code that is orbit on the International Space Station. He's a partner in Downtown Cartel and produces massive amounts of python code.

Roby Fitzhenry

Roby is a graphic designer and artist, as well as a founder and Creative Director of Always Creative. He is also founder of Activist Apparel. His personal site is RobyFitzhenry.com.

Martin Hooper

Martin Hooper is graphic designer, Texas A&M student and lead vocalist for Myth & Legend. He is currently a design intern at Always Creative.

Brian Smith

Brian is a partner in Downtown Cartel where he brings excellent Ruby and Javascript skills along with some business and marketing know how.

Ryan Plesko

Ryan is a Marketing Strategist and Developer for Ascendio, founder of BuildingProcess.com, and VP of the DFW Usability Professionals' Association. His personal site is RyanPlesko.com.

Jimmy Tran

Jimmy Tran is a web and graphic designer, illustrator, aspiring developer, and avid billiards enthusiast with an interest in industrial design. He is slave to street/urban/sneaker culture, the culinary arts, fashion labels and furniture.

Travis Ward

Travis Ward is a principal and the Web Director of Always Creative.