DESIGNER + ARTIST + ANIMATOR + VIDEOMAKER + PODCASTER
+ CONTENT CREATOR BLOGGER YOUTUBER PHOTOGRAPHER AI ENTHUSIAST ENTREPRENEUR INSTRUCTOR CURATOR POP CULTURE JUNKIE ARMY BRAT PREACHER'S KID NEW YORKER (LIVING IN PHILLY) SPELLING BEE CHAMPION INTROVERT (INTJ / INFJ) FREE SPEECH ADVOCATE TYPOGRAPHER OCCASIONAL HUMORIST
Professional
Jay Kaslo is a multi-disciplinary creative director currently based in Philadelphia, specializing in design, motion graphics, video editing, art & illustration, branding, and original content creation.
Agency Experience
- R/GA
- THE STRING THEORY
- LEAGAS DELANEY
- WIEDEN+KENNEDY
- PIRANHA NYC
- LOYALKASPAR
- THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS
- FROG DESIGN
- DIGITAL KITCHEN
- CORE 77
- HUGE
- JWT
- ATMOSPHERE BBDO
- PHOENIX POP
Clients (Abridged List)
Education
- B.S. Industrial engineering & Management Science (Northwestern University)
- Digital marketing (General Assembly)
Skills & Proficiencies
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe Audition
- Figma
- Midjourney
- Notion
- Procreate
- WordPress & Elementor
Interviews & Features
- Kaliber 10000 (K10K)
- Design Is Kinky
- Webzine 2000 (panel speaker)
- Digital Vision / Getty Images “Infinity Series” (Invited to design two titles, 2001-2002)
- AAFilmLab 72 Hour Film Shootout (2005): Directorial debut “Make or Break” screened at AAIFF (Asian American International Film Festival)
- Cut & Paste design competition (2006)
- HGTV “Freestyle” episode (2006)
- Featured in IdN Magazine
- “300: Maximus Rectus Abdominis” short film finished in Top 15 films in MTV’s Movie Spoof Competition (2007)
- Speaker at A.D. Agency (Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2008)
- NYIT 2010 Film Festival (“The Twitter Film” screening + panel discussion)
- TAKT Artist Residency (Berlin, 2011)
- Toca Me
- Guest lecturer for “Holistic Interaction Design” mini-course at General Assembly (2014)
- Animation Career Magazine interview (2017)
Work-related Links
Play Reel
Jay Kaslo's entire design & animation career shrunk into a 1+ minute video montage.
Personal
Vitals
- Name: Jay Kaslo
- A.K.A.: “Jay Kaslo”, “PK”, “PKSTYLE”, “PJ”, “JAYKAZ”, “The guy from introversion.com”
- Other monikers: Slackluster, Wetmilk, Singlepixel, Epset
- Height: 6’2″
- Weight: ~185 lb
- Tattoos: 2
Personality+
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type: INTJ / INFJ
- Enneagram:
- Type 4: The Artist. (Intuitive, reserved.)
- Type 5: The Thinker. (Perceptive, cerebral.)
* Only 2 percent of the population is INTJ.
* Only 1 percent of the population is INFJ.
Unique Snowflake
Other than his sister, Jay has never encountered someone who’s all three:
- 1st generation Indian American
- Preacher’s kid, and
- Army brat.
If you are one such unique snowflake, Jay would like to buy you a coke.
Philosophy
On August 4th, 2010, he tweeted:
Life is an experiment. Test your hypotheses.
This is how he’s approached life these last 10+ years, and continues to do so in the 2020s. He’s also recently started gravitating toward stoicism, minimalism, and essentialism.
Daily life
How Jay spends his days…
- Pushing pixels.
- Building brands.
- Turning the side hustle into main hustle.
- Making art.
- Making music.
- Substacking.
- Drawing.
- Podcasting.
- Listening to music (constantly).
- Watching films. Binge watching series.
- Photographing signage and strangers (from a distance).
- Traveling the world.
- Swiping left.
- Being a total hermit. (Classic introvert.)
- Quoting Seinfeld. Or Simpsons. Or Star Wars.
- Exercising the gaskets.
- Singing in the shower.
- Karaoke’ing whenever possible.
- Obsessing over KPOP.
- Updating playlists.
- Thermostat: 75+ degrees year round.
- Making smoothies. Making salads.
- Eating smoothies. Eating salads.
- Avoiding Facebook.
- Working out. (Mostly weights.)
- Being a good stoic.
- YouTube tutorials.
- Duolingo: German & Japanese.
- Watching Premier League & Champions League.
- Watching Arsenal blow a lead to end up with a draw.
- Also… watching Arsenal come from behind to get a draw.
- Betting on football (“soccer”).
- Amusing himself. (Interpret as you will.)
- Plotting world domination.
- Making lists. (Classic INTJ.)
- Becoming the best version of himself.
- Making the world a better place.
Yes, please.
- Dogs! (especially 柴犬)
- Helvetica
- Football (A.K.A. “Soccer”)
- Pop culture
- Snickerdoodles
- Bananas Foster ice cream
- Tacos
- Riesling
- T-Shirts
- Cosplay
- Art
- Design
- Photography
- Gifs
- Memes
- Travel
- 日本
- Deutschland
- NYC
- Fitness
- Pancakes
- Robots
- Graffiti
- Michael Jordan (G.O.A.T.)
- Fashion
- Audrey Hepburn
- Neon
- Helmets
- Triumph the Insult Dog
- Gangnam Style
- Karaoke
- Dance
- Penguins
- Freedom of Speech
- Minimalism
- Lists (obviously)
Cinematic adventures
- Star Wars (original trilogy)
- Swingers
- The Matrix
- The Princess Bride
- Amelie
- Office Space
- L.A. Story
- Groundhog Day
- Quick Change
- Lost in Translation
- Aladdin
- Spaceballs
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Kamikaze Girls (下妻物語)
- Battle Royale
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Team America
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- Austin Powers (Trilogy)
- Back to the Future (I and II)
- Her
- 500 Days of Summer
- Avengers (Infinity War)
- Beetlejuice
- Happy Gilmore
- Before Sunrise (+Before Sunset & Before Midnight)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- CB4
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
- Top Gun
- Days of Thunder
- Deadpool
- Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo
- The Devil’s Advocate
- Dogma
- Dumb & Dumber
- Ex Machina
- Fight Club
- Get Out
- Good Will Hunting
- Idiocracy
- Jerry Maguire
- Jexi
- Kickass
- Kill Bill (Vol 1 & 2)
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Labyrinth
- The Lego Movie
- Lord of the Rings (original trilogy)
- Love Strikes! (モテキ)
- Macgruber
- Major League
- Mars Attacks
- M3GAN
- Men at Work
- Minority Report
- Mulholland Drive
- My Fair Lady
- The Naked Gun
- Not Another Teen Movie
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
- Reality Bites
- Run Lola Run
- Shallow Hal
- Snatch
- Sliding Doors
- Spies Like Us
- Summer School
- The Terminator (1 & 2)
- Three Amigos
- Tron: Legacy
- Top Secret
- Vicky Christina Barcelona
- Wedding Crashers
- The Wedding Singer
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- When Harry Met Sally
- White Men Can’t Jump
- Young Frankenstein
- Zombieland
- Zoolander
- Airplane!
- Vivarium
On TV…
- Game of Thrones
- Seinfeld
- The Simpsons
- Family Guy
- Californication
- Dexter
- The Wonder Years
- Black Mirror
- Twin Peaks
- The Boys
- Flight of the Conchords
- Happy Endings
- Chappelle’s Show
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- In Living Color
- South Park
- True Blood
- Stranger Things
- Cobra Kai
- The White Lotus
- Love
- Lucifer
- Alice in Borderland
- Living With Yourself
- The Office
- Freaks & Geeks
- Fubar
- Portlandia
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- The Mandalorian
- Mr. Robot
- The Last of Us
- Daredevil
- The Punisher
- This is Us
- Beavis & Butthead
- The Critic
- Futurama
- Scrubs
- Robot Chicken
- Mad Men
- Homeland
- Key & Peele
- Crashing
- Silicon Valley
- The Flash
- Terrace House
- Squid Game
- Transformers
- G.I. Joe
- Gobots
- M.A.S.K.
- You
On repeat…
- Radiohead / Thom Yorke
- Nine Inch Nails / Trent Reznor
- LCD Soundsystem
- The Smiths / Morrissey
- Cannons
- The Cranberries
- Queen
- Rage Against the Machine
- Abba
- AC/DC
- Psy
- Momoland (모모랜드)
- Prince
- Michael Jackson
- The Bee Gees
- Ben Folds
- Benny Benassi
- Cake
- CHVRCHES
- Daft Punk
- Dave Matthews Band
- Depeche Mode
- Elise Trouw
- Eminem
- Girl Talk
- Guns N’ Roses
- Hall & Oates
- James Brown
- Jamiroquai
- Jodeci
- Justice
- Kool & the Gang
- Led Zeppelin
- LL Cool J
- M83
- Madonna
- Netsky
- Notorious B.I.G.
- OK GO
- Peaches
- Perez Prado
- Phil Collins
- The Police
- Richard Cheese
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Snoop Dogg
- Sublime
- Superorganism
- Tears for Fears
- Tom Petty
- Travis
- U2
Humor
- Dave Chappelle
- Chris Rock
- Patrice O’Neal
- Bill Burr
- Kevin Hart
- Louis CK
- Norm Macdonald
- Zach Galifianakis
- George Carlin
- Steven Wright
- Demetri Martin
- Jim Jefferies
- Ricky Gervais
- Russell Peters
- Patton Oswalt
- Jay London
- Sebastian Maniscalco
- Anthony Jeselnik
- Jim Norton
- Todd Barry
- Taylor Tomlinson
- Jon Stewart
- Jim Carrey
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Larry David
- Conan O’Brien
- Craig Ferguson
- Dana Carvey
- Bill Maher
- Jeff Ross
- Gilbert Gottfried
- John Cleese
- Greg Giraldo
- Charlie Murphy
- Garfunkel & Oates
- Kristen Wiig
- Melissa Villaseñor
- Nikki Glaser
Fine artists
- Edgar Degas
- Chuck Close
- Yoshitomo Nara
- Egon Schiele
- Lisa Yuskavage
- Fafi
- Banksy
- Chris Ware
- Mark Rothko
Reading material
- The Fountainhead
- Animal Farm
- 1984
- Essentialism
- Third Culture Kids
- Military Brats
- The Pursuit of Perfect
- The Poisoning of Eros
Creative Mentors
- Chris Cunningham
- Jonathan Leong
- Bradley Grosh (GMUNK)
- Matt Owens (Volume One)
- Mike Young (DesignGraphik)
- Mike Winkelmann (Beeple)