CURIOUS HUMAN · THINKER · WRITER · STRATEGIST · DESIGNER · MAKER · ADVENTURER

A life in progress,
made visible.

I follow ideas and questions until something wants to take form. Then I figure out what form fits: writing, an event, a brand, a business idea, a design, art, or something else entirely.

THE WHOLE THING

I stopped trying to make the parts match.

They already do. The same mind that spent years solving brand problems is the one writing books and blogs about identity and consciousness, researching the latest tech, finding the best supplement, cooking a five star dinner at home, hosting events, dancing to dubstep at festivals, building furniture, or following a question way too far.

BUILDING01
THE THRESHOLD

The Threshold

A free gathering for people somewhere between who they’ve been and who they’re becoming.

See The Threshold →
WRITING02

When God
Gets Bigger

A book for people who lost certainty without losing their appetite for meaning.

About the book →
EXPLORING03

Reality Designer

Identity, consciousness, perception, sovereignty, models, meaning, and the weird machinery of being human.

Explore Reality Designer →
MAKING04

Artist House

A living experiment in treating home like a canvas. Spaces, objects, color, handmade pieces, and whatever starts calling.

See what is forming →
LIVING05

Life, lately.

Festivals. Forests. Food. Trips. People. Clothes. Side quests. Strange places. Good nights. Things worth remembering that do not need to become a project.

See what made the cut →

THE RECURRING MOVE

Different subject.
Same instinct.

Then get curious again. ↻
01
NOTICESomething feels off, interesting, unfinished, or worth following.
02
QUESTIONPull at the default explanation.
03
PATTERNFind the thing underneath the thing.
04
MAKEGive whatever I found a form that fits.

FOR ANYONE WHO CAME HERE TO VET ME

Some context.

I did not wake up one morning and appoint myself a mysterious internet thinker. Before the books and frameworks, there were years of clients, deadlines, businesses, teams, bad ideas, good ideas, and making things work in the real world.

15+years in design and strategy
1,000+clients and businesses worked with
EntrepreneurBusinesses, products, experiments, and side quests across design, apparel, food, events, and more.As seen on The Blox, Season 7. Available on Prime Video.
AuthorField Notes of a Reality Designer

DESIGN ARCHIVE

I spent a long time making other people’s ideas visible.

A small selection from more than fifteen years of identity, graphics, web, print, signage, vehicle graphics, and creative direction. Not because I’m looking for more design clients. Because this work is part of the story.

Open the design archive →
Kevin Holmes sitting in a colorful immersive space

ABOUT KEVIN

I make more sense all at once.

I’m a writer, thinker, designer, maker, entrepreneur, husband, dad, friend, rabbit hole enthusiast, and person trying to experience being human without flattening it into one acceptable identity.

Design gave one of my oldest instincts somewhere to work: look for the thing underneath the thing. I’ve used that same instinct in business, religion, identity, relationships, consciousness, technology, creativity, and whatever else refuses to leave me alone.

I like forests and cities, loud music, good food, strange pants, useful objects, deep conversations, road trips, experiences that shift perspective, making things, and ideas with enough teeth to change how I see something.

The longer version →

STAY IN THE LOOP

Follow the work
as it changes.

No funnel. No daily inspirational emails. Just new writing, projects, experiments, side quests, and things worth sharing when I actually have something to say.