Charles s anderson design biography

One of the best parts about recruiting judges for the Regional Design Annual: Getting a chance to browse their brilliant archives—in this case, the work of team CSA Design. Today, third in a series of six judge profiles, we bring you Charles S.

Anderson, who judged the Midwest region of the RDA in 2015.

Originally from: Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My family moved to a small Iowa farm town when I was 8 years old, and I later returned to Minneapolis to attend college.

Path that led you to design: When I was a kid I loved comic books, illustration, drawing and making things out of paper.

Charles s anderson design biography

in 1974 (and against all odds) a retired commercial artist named Clyde Lewis moved from California to my tiny remote farm town. The next day, after I read the article about him in the local paper, I appeared at his doorstep. He was very kind and gracious and let me hang around and bother him with a million questions every day after school.

He could draw anything right out of his head with no r