Since a very young age, I have been engaged in the making of art. My grandmother was an artist, my aunt is an artist, my mother loves to draw and paint and my father is an engineer. Those early influences demonstrated to me that there was little to no distinction between design and making or everyday craft and what is termed “art.”

As a practical matter, I began in sign making. Customers would come in and we would sit down together to discuss their vision and what they wanted to communicate to their own customers. I would sketch and draw based on what they told me they wanted. We would then work through the different fonts from a book and slowly select the best font that would match the ideas. The overall design in concert with the font choice was selected to match the mission of the business and the intention of the customer/client through a deliberate attention to the total expression of the idea.

Later, while in graduate school, I taught a class in relief and type printing. The class included both printmaking and graphic design students. I decided that students should make point of sale (POS) popup boxes using the reduction woodcut using a CMYK production method and the moveable type on the Vandercook Press. I chose this process because the reductive woodcut takes thoughtful planning akin to how I worked with clients at the sign shop where I sketched their ideas and then we selected fonts that would highlight the overall intent. This assignment that I designed for students emulated more closely how I began my career in graphic design rather than how graphic design is actually taught in art and design programs.

I now do print work: web design, asset design, logos, posters and announcements  for a local college and private companies. Much of the larger projects that I have done are for private customers and will never be made public. I have compiled a limited sampling of work completed for a variety of purposes. Some of it is published, some for as sample models for instruction and some for the college where I do freelance design.

My artwork and CV are over at Munsonarts.com

My professional techical services are lightly listed over at Munsonwerk.com