
Owner / Art Director / Designer at Vector Graphics Plus
Greater New York City Area

Owner / Art Director / Designer at Vector Graphics Plus
Greater New York City Area
Since beginning part time in the sign trade after high school (1980), moving onto college and commercial art school, and starting my own sign company in 1985, I have lived through the transition within the graphics industry from the days of hand lettering and airbrush to now with complex vector designs and large format printing.
Possessing both skill sets of yesterday's and today's, accompanied with my knowledge and business ownership experience of 24 years, places me in a unique position incorporate both aspects and supply professional custom vector graphics to the commercial arts industry.
For me, everything is about superior quality and service, delivering on or ahead of schedule while always being in pursuit to Wow the customer.
I've had many years in the field with my sign company, http://www.bigeastsigns.com, and have designed logo's and produced graphics for so many different type businesses and trades, all having their own very special message, that I bring to you, practical experiences and diversity for any application.
If you need vector files for a project, VGP is here to save your company time and money providing graphics you'll be proud to sell as your own.
Logo Design, Layout, Photo to Scalable Vector Graphic,
Corel Draw, Creative Consultation, Communication, Mural Painting, Illustration, Oil Painting, Acrylic and Watercolor Painting
(Self-Employed; Graphic Design industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Fine Art industry)
October 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Harmony Hill Art Studio is my fine arts side.
This is actually my true core. I really like producing quality commercial art, but to just create art full time is my dream that someday, not too far away, will come true.
(Graphic Design industry)
June 1995 — Present (14 years 6 months)
I converted my hand lettering sign business (Bunce Signs) to Big East Signs in Central Jersey (Bridgewater), back in 1995 as Rutgers (a customer) joined the Big East Sports Conference. This is also when I updated my business to designing vector graphics in Corel Draw and changing from paint only to paint and vinyl cutting.
Diving head first into Corel Draw, I spent hours on end teaching myself until it became it's own art.There truly is an art in preparing a multi layered custom vinyl application. This is when I developed a reputation as being a sign and truck lettering artist that can still produce graphics as a warm custom hand painted layout, not a cookie cutter computer job. I was not confined to clip art like many shops. Heck, I had a customer climb a tree with a chain saw and and took his picture, created a siloette and cut it out of 24k Gold Leaf vinyl.
I moved Big East Signs to the Phillipsburg area of western New Jersey, in Harmony back in 1996, where I still have my shop and studio.
Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Airbrush 1983 — 1985
Commercial Art 1982 — 1983
24 credits moved with me to Boston.