About In the Loft Studios & Myself

From top left, clockwise: Aaron, Hillary,
Ruth and Maia

In the Loft Studios is located in Bellingham, Washington, currently providing Web Development and Websites, Drupal Consulting and Drupal Development locally and worldwide. Owned and operated by Aaron Klump, In the Loft Studios has been providing solutions since 1997.

In the Loft Studios began when I was in college, in Ellensburg, WA. I had a studio apartment downtown, above a pizza restaurant. This is of course the "Loft" to which the name refers. The first of the "Studios" was mostly involved with music and audio. At that time I was a performance major in the music school at Central. I was especially interested in recording and began producing albums for myself and others. In 1999, I graduated with my Bachelor's degree in Music Business. It was the next year that I took to web design, initially to satisfy my personal need for a website to promote my own musical endeavors. That website led to several others and eventually I had a small collection of clients whom I maintained as a side business to the print, audio and video "Studios". Thus web became the fourth of my "Studios". I began my study of PHP and MySql sometime around 2003, and soon-thereafter picked up javascript and css. Until about 2008 I remained deeply involved with digital audio and video. Two years ago, I met a guy who told me about Drupal. Having built many web applications from scratch, my own framework called Easter, and many websites the "old-fashioned" way, I was skeptical that Drupal had anything to offer me. I quickly discovered I had been mistaken. Drupal has, in fact, become my "Studio" of choice and I am now exclusively involved in Drupal-centric web development. I have yet to find a project, concept, or design, which I was unable to realize within the Drupal framework, and this is why I feel confident in hitching my cart to this wagon for the foreseeable future. I am especially interested in pushing Drupal's envelope at all levels both theme and module, thus the tagline, "Extreme Drupal Tweaks, Modules, Themes".

My name is Aaron Klump. I am the owner of In the Loft Studios. Since my birth in 1974, I have lived in Vancouver, WA; Sandane, Norway; Ellensburg, WA; Yeosu, South Korea; and Seattle, WA. I now live in Bellingham, Washington with my wife Hillary, and daughters Maia and Ruth.