American Greetings, Here I Come!
It all started in their basement.
This is where the recently-hired fledglings were expected to master greeting card design, roses (for sure), color theory, die cut, landscapes, and of course, New England's churches. For some reason, those church steeples resulted in a lot of money for American Greetings. Most of us were fresh out of art school, but those months down in the depths of the building, resulted in an education comparable to another year of art school. All we could think of, however, was escaping to that mysterious universe upstairs.
At last, our day of reckoning arrived. One by one, we and our art portfolios were studied and scrutinized until the moment our fate was sealed: I caught the eye of art directors, Wayne(Clovis) Martin and Dan Forst from the Humorous Design Department where I would soon begin working.
WHAT???
With my portfolio filled with THIS....