Thomas Kryton (bio)

My path into the graphic design world has been rather convoluted with forays into other employment areas as finances dictated through the years and as a result I’ve garnered a varied background.

I have about twenty years experience in sales and marketing and management ranging from a small furniture chain to computer wholesalers to running a major portion of a big box store.

My love of computers started back in 1972 when I ran my first program on a Digital PDP-8, it was a Roulette game, and this continued on through the years with various machines, programming languages and operating systems. And yes, I’m pretty well about as old as dirt.

My overall art experience started earlier than that with a book on how to draw cats back in about the sixth grade and I dabbled with graphic design and fine art eventually landing my first design/sales job with a computer wholesaler using CorelDraw 2.0 and then later a two year stint as a 3D modeler and animator. A few years after that I decided I really needed to add some letters after my name and returned to school and got a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting. Since then I’ve been employed as a graphic designer/developer now for a period of twelve years, seven of which were in the print industry including digital and offset, and the last five as a gui/print/web designer/developer for a telecom software manufacturer. I also freelance as a designer with projects ranging from web and print design to architectural rendering and branding and marketing.

I have varied interests including; photography, marketing, design, and programming among the more common ones and esoteric ones such as semiotics and philosophy, and not enough hours in the day to attend to them all.

I realize this sounds more akin to a resume and as such accept my apologies but it should suffice as an intro and explain what flavors my work and thoughts about the expanding world of design.

Many thanks,
Thomas Kryton
Digital Paint Graphic and Web Design