What May I Do For You
Most Anything Graphically....
I have over 35+ years in the graphic arts industry, most of those as a Graphic Artist... I can help you put together exactly what you need. For example - stationery, mailing labels, a logo or complete corporate identity (business cards, badges, brochures, envelopes, invoices, letterheads and more), I can help take your vision and make it a graphic reality. I can also take your existing graphic files to create what you as either an individual or a business need. For a quote, contact me here and we can start putting your project together. Thank you in advance!
Auspicious Beginings
How I Started the Ball Rolling
Previously employed in the Printing Industry. I wanted to expand my horizons to include being much more creative. Since my before mentioned employers often utilized already made artwork, my creative abilities were often not required. Starting in the fall of 2017, I left my full time job to branch out as a freelance graphic artist.
After envisioning in my mind several different business names and logos, I seemed to have hit a brick wall. My creative process had stalled. Then on one vacation trip to Kansas City, I started formulating a thought in my head. I had been thinking about my brother (he passed away before I was born) some prior to this trip. Joseph Daniel, he was commonly referred to as 'Jojo' in our family. I started taking the name Jojo, and tweaking it in my mind. It was on the trip back home that I came up with the above logo idea.
This graphic venture, is named in honor and remembrance of Joe.
Joseph Daniel - November 1942 to May 1958
My Graphic Story
With my Father's Help...
My Dad always noticed the artistic side of me. However, when I was very young, I wanted nothing to do with art related stuff. I wanted to be in road construction. While Dad was at work through the day, I (and usually a couple of friends) were busy creating a little town in our gravel driveway. Moving mounds of rocks and dirt, we created the perfect system of roadways you'd ever want to see, until my Dad came home from work. Then we'd start over the next day. Yes, I was convinced, I wanted to be a road construction worker.
Until I wanted to be a fireman.... that is. That didn't last very long though. My passion as a child into the teenage years would turn to the skies. I was convinced, I was going to be an astronaut. I studied about the planets of our solar system, some about the stars... but mostly our planets. Even at this stage, my art was coming along. I would sit and draw my designs for rocket ships for hours on hours. I even created information sheets on each of the planets, complete with a drawn picture of each planet (in the correct color) and listing dimensions (size and distance from the sun).
At some point, possibly in middle school, I began migrating from the stars and planets into the world of art. As I remember, in high school, I even got an 'Honorable Mention' in the Hoosier AAA Safety Poster contest. Through high school, approaching the real world.
After graduating from high school, my Dad was instrumental in helping me get my first job.... at a local machine shop, where he worked. But, about a year and a half into that job, my Dad was offered a position back at a local printing company.... one that he'd been at for most of my childhood. My Dad was a Reprographic Cameraman. He had been back there about six months or so when he told me about a job opening there that he thought I'd be great at.... Graphic Artist (called Cut & Paste Artist at the time... because it was truly 'cut & paste'). The day after Labor Day in 1979, I showed up for a 'trial' week... in what would turn out to be my job for 28 years.
And so it began, my journey through the evolution of the graphic artist position. Over the next few years, the duties changed from 'cut & paste' into learning all about this thing called a Macintosh computer.
My working world would never be the same.
