Welcome to our new series of posts called Speaker Spotlight, designed to highlight each of our upcoming CreativePro Conference speakers. Weve assembled a dream team roster of Photoshop and Illustrator gurus, and thought youd like get to know what makes them tick, why theyre passionate about what they do, and what you can expect to learn from them at the conference. (Our second Speaker Spotlight was on David Blatner.) The subject of this Speaker Spotlight is Keith Gilbert. Keith is a native to Minneapolis but has traveled the world consulting for clients such as Adobe, Apple, Target, the United Nations, Best Buy, and General Mills. The Keith Gilbert File Since his teenage years, Keith has been mesmerized by typefaces and typography. When he was 14 years old, he started a t-shirt silkscreening company with a buddy. Since this pre-dated personal computers, Keith would spy a typeface in a newspaper advertisement that he would want to use on a t-shirt design. Hed carefully cut out the letters from the newspaper and paste them up to form the words for the t-shirt. Often having to wait weeks before he could find all the letters he needed for the design! Then in college, he majored in computer science, and started working for a local publishing company. He quickly found [...]
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