I feels like I've been a designer since I was old enough to scribble and fold. And my love of printed matter goes back to my days of hoarding magazines, collecting comics and wondering how a waitress's order pad could have every page exactly the same except for the big, red numbers at the top. If you work your way through this site for the top down you'll see that I've been fortunate enough to have several positions I could only have dreamt of in my youth (music magazines, comic books). Although some may consider these positions as less "serious" because of their content, I can assure you that if you blow a deadline on a Vampirella comic the editor and publisher will take it no less seriously than the Vice President of an international investment bank would.