Happy birthday, Chris Morris
Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays to Chris Morris, art director of The Las Vegas Sun. Chris turns 44 today.Chris has been in Vegas about two years. Previously, he was presentation director of The Dallas Morning News for many years. He’s also worked at The San Francisco Examiner. His list of free-lance clients includes the folks at Pepsi-Cola and a number of professional sports francises: baseball’s Giants, Marlins and Yankees and the NFL 49ers.
Chris is a 1987 graduate of East Texas University in Commerce, Texas, which is now known as Texas A&M-Commerce.
Chris has long been a huge supporter of my work posting the the forums at the old VizEds site and now here, in the blog. I definitely owe the man a beer.
Chis is one of the best caricaturists you’ll find anywhere:
Oh, yeah: And neither his infographic work nor his page design nor his illustration work sucks, either:
During the Nevada caucuses a few months ago, Chris produced a light-hearted series of illustrations for page one. This one explained how the confusing caucus procedure works:
This one illustrated a story about how Democrats had to strengthen their tactics to take on Republicans:
And this one ran across the top of page one on caucus day itself:
Find more cool stuff in Chris’ NewsPageDesigner gallery. Or, better yet, Check out his huge personal portfolio site.
Chris shares a birthday with Josh Gillin of TBT, Australian singer/sex kitten Kylie Minogue, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival, singer Gladys Knight, politician Rudolph Giuliani, writer Ian Fleming — the creator of James Bond — and Native American athlete Jim Thorpe.
Plus, today is National Hamburger Day. Seriously.
Have a great birthday, Chris! I’m looking forward to finally buying you a beer this fall in Vegas!
May 29th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
A little belated but Happy B-Day Chris!