Who am I?

I build things because I can't not build them.

For about 12 years, I've raced endurance cars at events across the country - mostly 24 Hours of Lemons, the budget endurance series where the car has to cost under $500 and everything else is your problem. I pulled and replaced engines and transmissions at the track, in the rain, on a deadline. I won the Index of Effluency trophy and three Heroic Fix awards, which means I was both fast and slow enough and broke down often enough to be good at fixing things in real time.

Right now I'm rebuilding a 1969 Ford Fairlane 500 convertible. It needs wiring, paint, and a dozen other things I'll figure out along the way. I do all the work myself. That's not a philosophy - it's just how I operate.

Katale Designs comes out of that garage. Every graphic is based on something I've actually touched or done. Socket Boot Camp is real. Spare Engine Society is real. If you've got grease under your fingernails or an unfinished project in the corner of your garage, you'll recognize it.

No hype. Just mechanical life in graphic form.