Dylan Myers was working as a general contractor and looking for a way out when he saw a photo online of a bench made from concrete and wood. That was it. That was the whole thing. He started digging into creative concrete, found an industry he did not know existed, and never went back to general contracting.
In October of 2013 he took CCI’s Creative Concrete training. Sitting in that same class was Caleb, who has been a friend and a sounding board ever since. Dylan has said plainly that the workshop is where the real knowledge came from, and that having people like Jeff and Caleb to call when a job goes sideways has mattered just as much as anything he learned in three days.
What started as Dylan Myers Design is now The Concrete Anomaly, based in Maryland, and it has built a national reputation on the commercial side of the trade. That is the hard side. Commercial work means big pieces, tight schedules, architects with drawings, general contractors with opinions, and no room to hide a mistake. It is the part of the business most creative concrete shops avoid, and it is the part Dylan runs toward.
Look at his portfolio and you see why the name fits. Furniture, wall panels, reception desks, abstract pieces that read more like sculpture than surfaces. Nothing in it looks like the piece next to it. He is not repeating a formula. He is figuring out what the material can do and then doing it at a scale that would make most fabricators nervous.
If you want the unvarnished version, listen to the podcast episode we recorded with him for The Maker and the Mix. Jeff and Caleb sat down with Dylan and he talked about the projects that went right, the ones that nearly took him under, and what ten years in the trade actually costs you. Fair warning: Dylan swears, and we left it in. It would not have been an honest conversation otherwise.
You can see his current work at @anomaly_of_concrete on Instagram.
