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Standing Out with Graphics
Since my sophmore year in college when I discovered the Mac Lab (rows of souped up Apple Macintosh computers loaded with the leading graphics programs of that time), I have dabbled in expressing my creative ideas through graphic design. Whether it was designing a cover for "Flesh," a play that I wrote that year, developing 8" by 11" posters for the poetry group I was in, Death Before You Take Our Poetry, or producing party posters for house parties, I loved the problem solving and creative discovery that went into conveying information in a way that attracts attention and stimulates memory.Communicating through graphics continues to enchant me. I created several site graphics for ActorsUpdate, developed flyers, postcards, posters and other promotional materials at ActorsUpdate and Montage Magazine and designed logos for several companies. I get a particular thrill out of logo design. A logo must do the work of 1,000 flyers within the span of a few inches. It's an exercise in condensation to the nth degree. It reminds me of the paper folding game that confounds us as kids. In it, you take a piece of normal notebook paper and begin folding it in half. The first few folds come with easy. After the fifth or so fold, the task becomes exponentially harder, until you cannot make the collective paper budge. In a logo, you pick up that piece of paper after the final fold and figure out a way to fold it twice more.
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