The Squonk Collective

Our collective is comprised of creative minds from a diverse range of disciplines, from illustration and writing to web design and print production to creepy taxidermy and unpublished novels. Collectively speaking, our network has worked on hugely successful advertising campaigns, developed great business plans, run marathons, made commercials, written and played music, donated money and time to nonprofits, painted houses, met deadlines, fixed cars in the rain, written letters to congress, gained a little weight, engaged in international commerce, cooked a nice dinner and (occasionally) found some awesome furniture on the sidewalk.

Our network of creative professionals is very large, so on this page we’ve listed only a few of the prettier members of our collective; click on a face and get a profile. We offer an extensive list of services through these and other members, and our portfolio continues to grow.

We’re always looking to talk to you about your project, and we don’t charge anyone for asking questions just yet, so we hope you’ll contact us soon. You can always get us at 877-CRY-SQUONK, so ring us up and let’s get some coffee.

Joe Alterio

Art Direction | Illustrative Lucidity | Critical Acclaim

Behind every great aesthetic idea there is a brain, and within that brain somewhere is a network of synapses devoted to the beauty of it all, and within that network of synapses is one Joe Alterio, a visual artist of broad influence and intrepid vision. As an award-winning illustrator, designer, and animator, Joe has a long history of providing cutting edge graphics and illustration for a wide variety of clients such as Adobe, Audi, Nickelodeon, Rolling Stone, PG&E, HBO and The Boston Globe. Working as a consultant for such prestigious firms as Blue Flavor and Venables Bell, Joe’s work covers an impressive breadth of industries and concepts.

Drawing from influences ranging from vintage graphic novels to modern DIY culture, Joe brings a unique blend of style and substance to every project. His innovative Robots and Monsters project raised thousands of dollars for the Pangea Global AIDS Foundation, and garnered attention from BoingBoing.com and the Boston Globe, among others.

Joe is based in San Francisco and has a really great collection of old big band music. You can get to know him pretty well by reading Good Work, where he blogs mostly about really cool visual stuff.

Matt Glaser

Squonk Principality | Interactive Concepts | Double-Duty Parsing

Squonk Studios was once only a figment of Matt Glaser’s imagination, born of a whimsical desire to use the collective talents of his friends and colleagues to form a Voltron-like entity that could handle any creative task, regardless of its difficulty or size of scope. During many tours of duty working for advertising and marketing firms both small and large, Matt produced elite work at every level within industries from construction to automotive to the non-profit sector.

A writer by trade, Matt has worked at many levels of production, from conceptualization to project management to web deployment while building a list of clients including The Discovery Channel, Toyota/Scion, The Avon Foundation, the Pacific Bridge Companies, Jaguar, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Grower’s Express, Wella International and many others.

Matt prides himself in being a Jack-of-Several-Trades, specializing in marketing and branding, back-end web development, brilliant writing, and obscure cultural phenomena. On any given day, you might find him digging through stock photography, squinting at lines of Javascript, or trying to figure out if concupiscent is a dirty word. He tries to play jazz music whenever he can, and will bring a tear to your eye at the karaoke bar. He’s always ready with a good story, but don’t get him started on politics.

Tim Lillis

Comprehensive Design | Promotion & Events | Creative Fabrication

Versatility, thy doppelganger is Timothy Lillis. Finely degreed in the field of Industrial Design, Tim’s monstrous education continued post-graduation as a cutting-edge designer and evil-villain handler at Kaiju Big Battel in Boston. He then went on to work in the fabrication department with the Exhibit Design team at the New England Aquarium while starting work in Guerilla/Street Marketing, finding low-cost ways to promote visibility.

Since moving to San Francisco, Tim has set up his own design consultancy at Narwhal Creative, and is a regular illustrator for Make and Craft Magazine. A master of trade shows, conventions, and hand-to-hand marketing/combat, Tim counts Rockstar Games, Kontrol Skateboard Wheels, and Kaiju Big Battel among an impressive list of clients.

A talented musician and songwriter, Tim plays bass in Microfiche, a San Francisco-based electro-space-machine-rock band. Whenever we say that “we know a guy who knows a guy,” Tim Lillis is almost always that guy. Who knows the guy.