High school gave Myreon opportunities to develop the technical side of that creativity.
Through vocational printing courses and the instruction and encouragement of Mr. Holcomb, he learned traditional print production from beginning to end—including preparing four-color printing plates, operating and inking a printing press, cleaning and resetting the equipment between colors, aligning registration marks, and repeating the process until the individual colors came together as a properly registered finished piece.
Those developing skills eventually led to printing-press competitions at the local/state and national levels. The work demanded more than simply producing something attractive. It required accuracy, calibration, repetition, quality control, and—in competition—working within strict time requirements while producing an acceptable run of finished prints.
Photography became another part of that education. Working with 35mm film taught Myreon to understand an image beyond the moment the shutter was pressed. He learned the process from composition and exposure through film development in the darkroom and ultimately into the finished photographic print.
The classroom soon became practical experience.
Myreon began designing, printing, and assembling funeral programs, business forms, and other desktop-published materials, producing work in both physical and, as technology evolved, digital formats. Photography and print production increasingly came together as photographs he created could become part of materials he designed, produced, assembled, and delivered in-house.
The technology would change dramatically over the years.
The creative instinct did not.
See differently. Imagine what could be. Learn the craft. Give the vision form.