Who I Am
Creative Professional
Is all this worth reading?
I’ve been in the creative field for almost 30 years and still get tremendous satisfaction from doing something I enjoy. Every project whether it’s personal or professional is different and presents its unique challenges, but the process of creating still drives me to this day. I still get excited about the prospect of coming up with something new each time.
An apple a day
“It might come in handy one day.”
My path to becoming a designer started with my love for drawing, painting and illustration. I spent my formative years in college as an Art major. I started working in my school’s PR office to pay for art supplies. Then, one day, my supervisor at the time came to me and dropped this really heavy book on my desk. She said, “Here, read this and learn the computer. It might come in handy one day.” It was one of those old, thick Mac User Guides. Yes, you know the ones I’m talking about – the kind that could put someone in the hospital if you threw it at them.
What is a PageMaker anyway?
So, what did I do the first time I got on a computer? What else? I drew. Well, I used a little program called PageMaker. Yes, I know, PageMaker wasn’t made to illustrate but I didn’t know any better. The point is that I took something entirely unfamiliar and fused it with something that I was comfortable with and that opened up another world to me. I am forever grateful to my boss who encouraged me to learn the computer.
Thank you Gail, wherever you are.