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The story of the literal kid is a long one. too long to repeat here. here's some of it though.
1982 was a big year. Thriller by Michael Jackson came out. So did 1999 by Prince. So did I. Like I said, it was a big year.
As a child I wasn't focused - I knew things needed designing, but I didn't know what. I tried cars (too many boring practicalities), town planning through the medium of recycled cereal boxes (hard to scale properly and thus ultimately unsatisfying) and water features (leaky). And then, one dark night around 1988, it hit me. I was looking at my dad's Tomita record covers and I realised that I wanted to draw things for non-abstract reasons, and preferably in such a way that writing could be incorporated.
And now here I am. I'm an art director at one of the UK's top digital agencies, and in my spare time I draw things, usually for non-abstract reasons and almost exclusively in such a way that writing can be incorporated. It's only taken me 21 years.