Life of A Graphic Designer
Jay Lillie
November 18, 2009
When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them – to the contrary they just do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they arise.
Here's a few entrepreneurs:
Graphic HQ is a professional graphic design company. We specialise in print design, print advertising, branding and marketing. Our brochure work is internationally recognised as being beautifully executed and well thought out.
As a small company with a limited number of clients, Graphic HQ offer a very personal service. We are dedicated to our clients and their goals. We are performance and result driven and have yet to disappoint a client! For professional and cost effective work please contact Graphic HQ.
Eoin Brennan www.graphichq.com
Young & experienced web/graphics designer. A guy who loves designing & to design is my passion. Designing has been my professional focus from last 6 yrs. Staying updated with latest trends and technologies has kept me growing professionally and personally.
I'm a Graduate in Multimedia Studies from SMU, INDIA and a one year Diploma Holder in Graphics and Multimedia.I have proven skills in web designing and front end development as well as designing for print media. Enjoying designing for Web & print both. I have passion for all sorts of design. I try my best to keep an original style of design for every project I deliver. Services : Web Designing, Graphic Designing, Logo Designing, Flash Presentations, XHTML/CSS conversion from PSD.
Atul Thanvi www.atulthanvi.com
Dallas-based Big D Creative is a group of award-winning web designers, programmers, researchers and marketing gurus. Big D Creative improves brands and inspires its clients' customers to interact with their brands. What separates Big D Creative from its competitors? Big D Creative offers a complete spectrum of marketing services to its clients. Our expertise spans not only web design and programming, but also corporate identity, Internet media, search engine marketing, graphic design and print, research and Web hosting. We begin each relationship by focusing on the essence of your business, we develop a strategic plan of action, and we execute the plan with some of the most highly qualified professionals in the industry. This is a one stop shop.
Our portfolio says it all. Big D Creative's clients range from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. We have built solutions for large companies like American Airlines, Cingular and D Magazine, as well as individuals such as Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson and Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith. Large or small, all of our clients share a single commonality: their desire to promote their brand and to increase their business. Big D Creative offers an unmatched combination of expertise, quick project turnaround time, low fees useful tools. Our organization is structured to maximize the benefits of our depth, diversity and delivery capability – and ensures adaptability to changing client needs. Big D Creative will deliver your entire solution through a highly qualified team with unmatched project management and development skills and robust, proven, value-added tools and resources. Our work provides a high value, low risk solution.
Curt Green www.bigdcreative.com
Vantage Studios Inc. is a creative design studio located in the heart of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Started in 2005 by Donavan Robinson and Billy Kiely the company has grown to 5 in-house staff. Their vision was to create unique and creative marketing material for their clients.
"The great thing about this business is the opportunities to figure out new ways to solve our clients marketing needs. It never gets boring."
Vantage Studios Inc. offers graphic design, branding, web design and development and motion graphic services to over 500 clients in Canada and the United States. Currently they have created 2 divisions to their company, The Vantage Lounge, offering digital print services and print consultation, and Vantage Hospitality, which creates marketing material and solutions for the hospitality Industry.
Donavan Robinson www.vantagestudios.ca
Flourish Design Studio is a full service graphic design house whose mission is to develop comprehensive branding solutions that are integral to our clients´ success. We want our clients to be delighted with the results of every project, as well as with our process, which incorporates structure with creativity. We are passionate about our clients´ brands and about providing unique solutions to their individual needs.
Jacqueline Cote-Sherman, a 5th generation entrepreneur, began Flourish Design Studio in 2001 as Brainstorm Design and Illustration. As a middle and high school art teacher, she was inspired to start the business after visiting some of the country´s top branding companies in New York City while pursuing an MFA in Illustration at Marywood University. In 2006, the business had grown from a part-time job to a full-time venture, incenting Jacqueline to resign from her teaching tenure of 10 years. Since then, Flourish Design Studio has grown steadily and has helped hundreds of clients turn the investment in their brands into profitable rewards.
Jacqueline Cote-Sherman www.flourishdesignstudio.com
Securenet Systems is located in Deerfield Beach, Florida and is one of the largest hosting, design, and radio streaming companies and a leading provider of comprehensive business Internet services, serving the radio streaming market in over 200 countries and every US state. Securenet Systems offers a wide range of Internet services including high-speed website hosting, custom website design and programming, online marketing and search engine optimization, and radio streaming. We also offer an Affiliate Reseller Program that is available worldwide.
www.securenetsystems.net
To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design during the latter half of this century. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man — one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work. *
Born in 1929, Milton Glaser was educated at the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. He co-founded the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, established Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and teamed with Walter Bernard in 1983 to form the publication design firm WBMG. Throughout his career, Glaser has been a prolific creator of posters and prints. His artwork has been featured in exhibits worldwide, including one-man shows at both the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums. Glaser also is a renowned graphic and architectural designer with a body of work ranging from the iconic logo to complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center in New York. Glaser is an influential figure in both the design and education communities and has contributed essays and granted interviews extensively on design. Among many awards throughout the years, he received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, for his profound and meaningful long-term contribution to the contemporary practice of design.
Milton Glaser Inc.
The early part of my career was spent in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I worked as a storyboard artist at J Walter Thompson, working on accounts such as Ford and Kellogg's. I later moved to Partnership FCB, where I became an Art Director, doing TV, newspaper and magazine ads for brands such as British Airways, Yamaha, Nestle and Bic.
I then got a job on a tropical island, Mauritius, working at Ogilvy, running their creative department. It really wasn't how I expected a tropical island to be, it was very, very busy and I had to learn to cope with huge volumes of work, cracking up to 5 ads a day. I remember once doing 2 pitches in one day. An extremely interesting experience, and it changed my view of working in offices. After a total of 3 years in Mauritius, I learned a bit about the internet and quit my job, never to return to an office, and spent the next few years travelling Sub-Saharan Africa with my laptop. I now have a site that does fairly well on Google and brings me a large number of leads. A whole new way of working, and a much better and healthier lifestyle. I'm presently in the process of setting up an online ad agency.
Geoff Louw www.the-ad-man.co.za
Michael has nearly two decades of experience in the creative industries. Founder of 'a fish in sea' one of the most original and pioneering online and graphic design agencies in London of recent years, he recently started an additional business venture 'CREW agency' that specialise in editorially-driven print or web marketing campaigns.
From corporate identity creation and brand building to specialised design and project consultation for some of the largest brands in the world, through to final delivery of these solutions in print or online media. Michael is experienced, hands-on and creative.
Michael Mursell www.afishinsea.co.uk
Liquid Squid Studios is expanding and upgrading its services. Liquid Squid has become a partner in the Holodyn Network to better serve its clients. Now with a more central located office, larger facilities, new resources, and a new network of knowledge, Liquid Squid Studios is even more determined to bring you the best web design with integrated solutions for every business.
We are an award winning, nationally recognized team of graphic design studio with backgrounds in Computer Science, Cartography, Two Dimensional Art, Three Dimensional Art, Photography, Graphic Design, and Information Systems. Using our storied background we deliver stunning Graphic and Web Design for today's businesses. With 10 years of graphic design under our belt our company has matured as the industry has developed. This gives us a total understanding of our tools and how to best utilize them. Our client base includes a variety of businesses from Realty Companies to Exterminators. No job is too small or too big for our team of talented designers.
David Warren
DreaMarT specializes in Multimedia production services which includes Interactive Corporate Multimedia, Web Solutions (Website Design, Development and Maintenance, Web Promotion, Search Engine Optimization), Creative Design Solution, Audio & Video Solutions, Architectural Walkthrough and 2d/3d Animation.
We are a company totally committed to Quality and Innovation, this has granted us widespread recognition and has been our guiding motto ever since our inception. We work with MNC's, SME's ,Government Agencies and Advertising Agencies worlwide.
Gigi Samuel www.dreamartinteractive.com
After a successful nine-year run at J. C. Bradford & Co., Mark Fleming left his position as Manager of Marketing Services to start Creative Avenue February 12th, 1999, a venture fulfilling his vision to bring fine art, graphic design, and web design together under one roof. Creative Avenue has grown its customer base from a few clients in 1999 to nearly 300 today. Mark Fleming's passion for the arts began in his childhood. Belonging to the generation inspired by Star Wars, Mark credits the film with instilling in him a love for creative imagery coupled with exacting detail.
These values carried into his education as he was honored as "Best Portfolio" graduate at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. In 1991, Mark joined Nashville's J. C. Bradford & Co. as a Graphic Designer/Illustrator, responsible for the design of the company's advertising and marketing material. In the ensuing years, he moved up to Creative Director and eventually Manager of Marketing Services, overseeing relationships with advertising agencies, printing and related vendors to support 86 offices, 1300 brokers and 300,000 clients.Today, Mark Fleming meets the challenges of a changing industry by staying current in various graphic design, web design, and video editing software programs and by building connections with artists throughout Nashville ranging from designers to musicians. Also, Mark teaches design students at the Nossi College of Art, helping influence the next generation of commercial artists.
Mark Fleming www.CreativeAvenue.com
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