My first encounter with graphic
design took place when I was a young kid, in the early eighties,
well before Commodore 64. It all started with a special gift
- a small hand-made wooden drawing table. For almost a decade,
as a youngster, I spent hundreds of hours drawing and sketching
cars, houses, rockets and landscapes.
When I was in high school, I
made the startling discovery that there was actually a profession
called graphic designer. Even better, people were actually paid
to create images. What a revelation!
After high school, I enrolled
in a three year program in Quebec City, where I studied graphic
design from 1990 to 1993.
After working here and there
for publishing and printing companies, I landed my first real
job in graphic design in a design/print shop in Northern New
Brunswick where I worked for a year. As I was attracted to work
on bigger projects, I moved to Moncton in 1994.
My first job in Moncton was for
an audio-visual production company, where I stayed for a year.
I then joined a young and dynamic communications firm called
Groupe Communication Plus, now known as Bristol Group. And almost
five years later, I made the greatest leap of my life - entrepreneurship
- that led me to the creation of Branch Graphic Design.