About

Having grown up not understanding the creativity I held within, I, Jeremy "Dreadko" Rudko, grew up being the strange one, the crazy one,

The different one...

Taking over two-and-a-half decades to understand this difference built character. It built resilience and taught me the importance of standing up for what I believed to be true. Being severely bullied in middle school, mocked by ones who didn't understand my interests, and disparaged by the people who didn't agree with my way of thinking, forced me to ignore the mind God gave me for many years.

It took the creation of life to spark the fire that would eventually become Dreadko Design. The day I found out that my wife was going to have our first child, I knew my purpose in life. It wasn't to be a designer. It wasn't to be an artist. God called me to be a great father. This meant pursuing something that would influence my children to be more than mediocre. I knew I was now responsible to show my children that achieving dreams is possible. I knew that the "Jeremy" I was, wasn't the best I could offer my children.

Starting school in the summer of 2012, I began to transform my indoctrinated mind back into the one God gave me. Through two miscarriages, being laid off, and failing at what I thought would lead to a career in band management, I continued to excel in school more than ever before.

A few months without work led me back to a career that, while unfulfilling, provided for my (again) pregnant wife. I worked full-time while house hunting with my wife, and, eventually, we found our home to start our family. At this point, "Jeremy" was still not Dreadko.

Dreadko came into existence almost two years later. Now, owning a home, having a beautiful wife and daughter, still working full time, and continuing to succeed in school, our son was born. Looking at my two children, I began to transform emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I changed the way I looked at the world. I began to appreciate every little thing around me.

I began to look at the world as an artist.

Dreadko was real now. I knew that I wanted to show my children the beauty of everything around them. My children were to appreciate the art God created in their world, and they would learn to create their own worlds. God gave us two hands, and they perfectly fit a brush and palette.

The Dreadko style aims to excel at being eye-catching. Whether through minimalism or artistic drama, each piece is carefully thought out to portray some sense of emotion in every viewer. Working hard to create something different every time, Dreadko focuses on making something people want to see, not what I want to see. My goal in this world through everything, is that everyone who comes across my work does not simply see it as a poster, or brochure.

I want each individual viewer to feel like a part of the art...