Its been just over one month since John Neiner started full-time here at Pixel! Wow… a month already! He started getting in the groove the first day he started and has been bringing himself up to speed rapidly. Though John has no lack of talent, he felt his knowledge of the Creative Suite was lacking so he took up the task of learning as much as possible about that set of programs. Now he comes to my office and uses shortcuts I have never used (let alone know about!) to get things done.

I have been seeing John’s amazing work almost every day for the past month… but today I got to see the final printed product of one of John’s first projects he designed after coming on full-time.

Every year our studio handles the design of a brochure for our local UCP’s annual golf tournament and this year I assigned John with the task of designing a new cover and updating the layout. This year was also the first year we had three panels instead of two, so there were more layout changes than were usually encountered.

John based his design on some of my work from the previous year, but he took the cover and other elements in a totally new direction. Playing off the sophistication of golf, John used various-sized words with a serif font to form the brochure title and interior headers, and a monochromatic image and color palette for the interior layout. The finished result was truly spectacular and is a fitting addition to our studio.

Be on the lookout for more of John’s projects in our portfolio area.

John, thanks for making such a great effort to learn and grow with my business!