I won this commission to design the poster of Ouachita Baptist University's production of the Secret Garden while attending school there. Generally, one of the professor's at the school handled all of these projects, but he was planning a sabbatical, and the gave the opportunity to his students. It was during this project that I first learned what it meant to be a graphic designer.

I had never done commissioned work (or at least not work for a client, as I received no commission for this design,) and wasn't prepared for the amount of collaboration that is required when a designer begins working for someone else. I was quite pleased with my first concept, and spent quite awhile on it, so I was pretty upset when the director of the play asked me to redo it (I'm trying to be as polite as possible here...) It took me about two months and a lot of caffiene to come up with the design you see to the left, and barely completed in time for the show. Needless to say, I learned the value of communication, and I learned what it meant to please your clients. So, aspiring artists beware - the graphic design industry is a humbling one.

For the sake of tending to my own wounded ego, I've also included here another of my early designs, patterned after vintage, turn-of-the-century French adverisements (such as those of Henri Toulouse-Loutrec, though he predated those mentioned.)