Biography:

I suppose the best description of Ran's production to date would be diverse multi-media. He has become internationally known for his creative advertising campaigns, graphic art, book design, photography, new media and of course his vibrantly colourful expressionist paintings.

Advertising In the 1980and's Ran was a managing partner of Ideas and Solutions a full service boutique advertising agency in Detroit Michgan. Over a four year involvment he worked on numerous accounts in the eighth largest market in the United States. Graphic Art and Book Design Over the years numerous graphic art ventures have come and gone including magazine layout and design, posters, cd covers and media packaging.

He held the position of production coordinator for Breakwater Books, where he was responsible for design and production of all trade and educational books and promotional materials. His work can be seen on the shelves of better bookstores worldwide and includes:
Liar (cover) by Joanna Gosse,
The Wide World Dreaming by JoAnne Soper Cook,
The Viking Discovery of America by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad,
Flashes From The Past by Frank Kennedy,
Death By Chocolate by Ross A. Klein Fine Art

Ran is concentrating now on establishing a studio to produce fine art in St. Johnand's Newfoundland. Atelier Ran currently consists of a multi-media digital studio, a painting studio, gallery and a small sculpture studio. The Atelier Ran brand of fine art swag and apparel can be purchased online : Web Design From April 20 1998 to April 20, 2002, Ran was the creator and designer of informatron.com.

The scheduled four year independent new media project successfully drew to a close. The site drew in excess of 3.5 million visits and was honoured to have beeen nominated in the prestigious 'webs most entertaining' website category of the Streamers 99 Award for Excellence in Streaming Media. Independent media Now ended Ran was under an agreement with Troma Entertainment, (the oldest independent film studio in the world) to provide new media content and as a partner in the now suspended Tromaville.com the virtual city of cutting edge independent media. " Thanks Toxie, for all the cool memories, it's been great fun and it's an honour being part of the Troma tradition of renegade independent film, art and music. Don't give up the fight for truly independent media and continue the crusade to give art back to the people."