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Answers provided by Jack Cravy of Americom Marketing.
HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE GRAPHIC DESIGN?
grade. As a younger child, I was the “class sketch art-
Graphic Design, in my opinion, is a tool used to
ist” and I was always drawing cartoons and portraits.
communicate with a consumer to invoke a sense of
I took every creative class available and was widely
emotion and feeling through a visual medium. In our
known as the “artsy” kid in school. When I entered
industry we use this tool to provoke a call to action or
high school, there were several computer classes to
to instill an idea of confidence.
take – and that’s when I was introduced to the Adobe Creative Suite and graphic design competitions. My
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO BE A GRAPHIC
high school BCIS/BIMM teacher, Faye Gardner, guid-
DESIGNER?
ed me through using software to channel my creative
I wanted to be a graphic designer since I was in 9th
outlet and fulfill my potential as an artist. With her
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