GARR CREATIVE

Life was easy in 1 st grade. All I had to do was draw what I saw outside my window and my artwork brought home the grand prize. As I grew I was horrible at making hydrogen bombs, avoiding attacks from wild dogs and keeping all five toes on my right foot. But I did win something at every art contest I entered... My friend's mom hired me to design a golf instruction manual. This required drawing pictures of fat old ladies explaining things. That was my foray into professional design - and it was a crucial moment for me because I realized that my art had to meet a need in order to make money. And in order to meet needs in a marketable way I had to really think about what I was doing, often going through several iterations to achieve a great product... In college I started entering design competitions. I won the best-of-state gold medal pictured below for designing a 3-dimensional animated Microsoft logo out of my art supplies when all of the other competitors were drawing their entries..

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