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Workshop with Kevan Atteberry, Graphic Artists Guild, Mar. 26
March 26, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Workshop with Kevan Atteberry, Graphic Artists Guild
When: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where: EAFA Gallery at the Seattle Design Center Suite 292, Seattle
What: This is a crazy industry with wild fluctuations in what works and what doesn’t, mostly at the whim of people you’ll never meet. Pursue what brought you here, what you love about this business and make it work.
Kevan Atteberry will talk about:
- How he faked his way from driving a forklift into a design position and made it work.
- How he went (was forced) out on his own and started his own design studio and made it work.
- How he moved into digital and made it work (after a mortifying start but teaching himself.)
- How he worked on probably the most unsuccessful software team in Microsoft’s history and how it never had a chance of working.
- How that put him in a position to create a widely reviled but ultimately recognizable icon that annoyed hundreds of millions of people everyday.
- How he eventually left a lucrative contract position to start a greeting card company and made it work.
- How he got caught up in the dot.com hurricane and made it work. For about 5 minutes.
- How he eventually found a foothold in children’s book illustration and publishing and made it work..
- How he make things work today.
Who: Kevan Atteberry has been drawing since he was knee-high to a crayon. He parlayed his love of illustration into a career in graphic design; first with a Fortune 500 company and then with his own company for 18 years. Then with a few quick dalliances with employment that whole dot.com thing he was back on his own concentrating on illustration and exploring animation. Today he is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books. He has also recently penned his first children’s book, which he will illustrate, which will be out in January.
How Much: $10-$15
How: Register here.
