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John Tice’s Bio
John propensity for Illustration, or visual storytelling, was evident in the first grade. By the middle school years John was able to capture a person’s likeness and he enjoyed drawing caricatures of politicians and teachers, sometimes in a less than flattering manner. This somewhat unusual ability, while quite entertaining to his peers, presented a perplexing dilemma to teachers who, when presented with recognizable images of themselves weren’t quite sure if their authority was being usurped and didn’t know how they should react. They were not attuned to the existence of multiple intelligences and didn’t know whether to be encouraging or to redirect his energies toward academic pursuits with which they were more familiar. It wasn’t until high school that John encountered a gifted art teacher who was genuinely enthusiastic, in fact ecstatic, to discover that John was wired with a few circuits that weren’t on the standard diagram. Mr. Jones had the prescience to recognize an innate tendency for creative expression and encouraged John to pursue a career in the visual arts.
John graduated from the Communications Arts & Design program at Virginia Commonwealth University where photography was a required course. He instantly loved the medium and took advantage of the school’s considerable offerings in photography and film, as well as employing it in independent projects. Other excellent courses supported his development as a designer and visual communicator, including visual thinking, life drawing, design, illustration and the study of typography and printing technologies.
John’s first stint after graduation was as a draftsman and cartographer for an engineering company where he sharpened his skills in the technical realm and gained a lasting appreciation for visual communication of quantitative information. In his early career, John worked as a print communications designer, art director, photographer, illustrator, and multimedia designer for advertising agencies, and institutions of higher education. In 1986 John opened his own design and photography studio where he consolidated his experience and found exciting new challenges producing both technical and creative projects for a range of clientele from real estate developers, retail, public transportation, electronics, biotechnology and economic development to pharmaceuticals and the aerospace and defense industry.
John acquired his first computer, a Macintosh SE with 1MB of memory about 1988. John’s firm immediately began using desktop computers for typesetting, then page layout, and was probably the first in the area to adopt a fully computerized workflow for high-end print communications. Not realizing its limitations, John produced a 100 page, hard bound, 4 color catalog on this tiny machine. His firm developed its first client website in 1992, a public transportation site, prior to the emergence of Netscape and Internet Explorer. John has kept abreast of rapidly advancing internet technologies and produced numerous websites and multimedia projects for the medium. John remains first and foremost a visual storyteller, designer and photographer.While photography has emerged as the primary emphasis, John still loves design and loves to collaborate with talented designers. John throughly enjoys leveraging the current technologies along with creative thinking and problem solving to enhance his client’s brands and identity.
John Tice’s Bio
John propensity for Illustration, or visual storytelling, was evident in the first grade. By the middle school years John was able to capture a person’s likeness and he enjoyed drawing caricatures of politicians and teachers, sometimes in a less than flattering manner. This somewhat unusual ability, while quite entertaining to his peers, presented a perplexing dilemma to teachers who, when presented with recognizable images of themselves weren’t quite sure if their authority was being usurped and didn’t know how they should react. They were not attuned to the existence of multiple intelligences and didn’t know whether to be encouraging or to redirect his energies toward academic pursuits with which they were more familiar. It wasn’t until high school that John encountered a gifted art teacher who was genuinely enthusiastic, in fact ecstatic, to discover that John was wired with a few circuits that weren’t on the standard diagram. Mr. Jones had the prescience to recognize an innate tendency for creative expression and encouraged John to pursue a career in the visual arts.
John graduated from the Communications Arts & Design program at Virginia Commonwealth University where photography was a required course. He instantly loved the medium and took advantage of the school’s considerable offerings in photography and film, as well as employing it in independent projects. Other excellent courses supported his development as a designer and visual communicator, including visual thinking, life drawing, design, illustration and the study of typography and printing technologies.
John’s first stint after graduation was as a draftsman and cartographer for an engineering company where he sharpened his skills in the technical realm and gained a lasting appreciation for visual communication of quantitative information. In his early career, John worked as a print communications designer, art director, photographer, illustrator, and multimedia designer for advertising agencies, and institutions of higher education. In 1986 John opened his own design and photography studio where he consolidated his experience and found exciting new challenges producing both technical and creative projects for a range of clientele from real estate developers, retail, public transportation, electronics, biotechnology and economic development to pharmaceuticals and the aerospace and defense industry.
John acquired his first computer, a Macintosh SE with 1MB of memory about 1988. John’s firm immediately began using desktop computers for typesetting, then page layout, and was probably the first in the area to adopt a fully computerized workflow for high-end print communications. Not realizing its limitations, John produced a 100 page, hard bound, 4 color catalog on this tiny machine. His firm developed its first client website in 1992, a public transportation site, prior to the emergence of Netscape and Internet Explorer. John has kept abreast of rapidly advancing internet technologies and produced numerous websites and multimedia projects for the medium. John remains first and foremost a visual storyteller, designer and photographer.While photography has emerged as the primary emphasis, John still loves design and loves to collaborate with talented designers. John throughly enjoys leveraging the current technologies along with creative thinking and problem solving to enhance his client’s brands and identity.