Beth Anderson
I get to marry two of my passions through this company – science and art.
I come from a family steeped in the life sciences, but opted to follow the art path, with a twist. The road to the present has been circuitous. Fifteen years ago, I decided to start Arkitek Studios, a visual communications design group specializing in content development for the science, technology and education communities.
In late 2002 I filed a US patent jointly with Dr. Norman Anderson and Doug Huff (U.S. Patent 6,702,229,B2 – Method, Apparatus and Article to Display Flight information) for a novel navigation instrumentation design that utilizes information from airspeed and directional indicators to help pilots synthesize position in extreme weather conditions.
Before Arkitek I spent 3 years at Large Scale Biology Corporation helping to design and construct biotech instrumentation (most notably the Iso-DaltTM 2-D electrophoresis platform used in the separation and identification of proteins, as well as PCOS, a high volume centrifuge-based production oligonucleotide synthesizer system). During that time, I helped design instrumentation, managed production budgets, supplied machinists with AutoCAD drawings, assembled finished parts, wired electrical systems, and tested and shipped the assembled machines.
I trained classically in piano and ballet, then left for Stuttgart at 16 on a dance scholarship, danced professionally for the next 8 years, and afterwards spent (or misspent, depending on how you look at it) 12 years as a working musician in a number of bands in LA, the Pacific North West, and Thailand.
I’m getting to the point in my life where I’m realizing that no matter how bizarre, nothing I’ve learned has been completely useless. Bits and pieces of everything I’ve been exposed to show up, or influence what I do now. Proving, at least to me, that a patchwork of experiences in life can, hopefully one day, add up to something interesting.
I’m a bridge between disparate groups. I like the process of translating complex science and technological information to a wide variety of audiences, peppered with a good dose of esthetic sensibility. I use the usual 2D and 3D software for this industry (AutoDesk Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Premiere, AfterEffects, etc).
Music composition, recording, producing. Pretty fair hand with a hydrogen-oxygen torch. Budding sportbike afficionado.