Jeff Shelton
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Jeff Shelton is an architect in Santa Barbara, California who has been designing buildings in his hometown since 1994. After graduating from the University of Arizona School of Architecture in 1983, Jeff worked for Santa Barbara architect and philosopher Frank Robinson and then spent a decade working in Los Angeles, primarily on downtown area projects. He returned to Santa Barbara to open his own office on Fig Avenue, where he has become known for his colorful and playful interpretation of the city’s strict design guidelines.
To date, he has designed over sixty residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings in the Santa Barbara region where he currently lives and works. A moderately obsessive graphic artist and designer, Jeff creates furniture, posters and storybooks, fabric collections, t-shirts, rubber stamps, maps, and typefaces, and continually adds new patterns to his extensive line of cement and ceramic tile. He is also the author of Pub Theory, as well as notable yet widely unknown and still-to-be-published works such as Stages of Hoarding, Supercrack, Gopherman, and Fluffy’s Homework Guide.
Photo by Chris Jenkins
Website: https://www.jeffsheltonarchitect.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffsheltonarchitect
Winning Entry: The Fig District
Contest Won: North Street Book Prize 2024, First Prize
