Design that works isn't decoration. It's an artist's instinct for composition, color, and restraint, applied to real problems — brand identity, corporate marketing, publication and packaging design, event and trade show branding. I've spent more than 25 years building that instinct: as creative director of an independent design practice founded in 2000 (originally Surprise Media, rebranded Gannon Studio for Design in 2022), and as senior creative within Aon's Global Marketing Group, directing executive communications and global campaigns for a 50,000-employee corporation.

I don't just execute the brief. I see the whole picture — and bring the same eye to an active studio practice in fine-art photography and painting, exhibited across the Midwest. That's not a side note. It's where the instinct comes from.

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