I’ve been an artist all my life. From art lessons as a youth to designing logos for newspapers and yearbooks during middle and high school, designing graphics has always been my heart. I only took a few courses in college, thinking that film or radio would be my lifetime career. And while an on-air DJ on the Gulf Coast, I still couldn’t evade my graphical calling—designing radio and TV station logos and other company logos on the side.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1984, I began publishing Trax Dance Music Guide for my fellow club DJs. Then, I bought my first Macintosh computer in 1985. The knack I had for melding technology with publishing set me on an inevitable course for a career in computer-based graphics. While continuing to DJ in clubs at night, I began a professional desktop publishing career at two Kinko’s locations in Sherman Oaks. From there, I spent eight years as the Art Director and Production Manager for Music Connection Magazine before going freelance in 1996. Since then, I’ve created graphics for dozens of marketing firms and design agencies as well as for my own private clients.