Birthdays for Saturday, July 18
Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays to three wonderful visual journalists…
Kenneth Amos is director of News, Presentation and Planning for the Cincinnati Enquirer. A graduate of Central Missouri State University, Kenneth spent four years as news editor of the Daily Star-Journal of Warrensburg, Mo., before becoming assistant news editor and then sports editor of Florida Today. He became graphics editor of the Orlando Sentinel in 1985, stayed there nine years and then, as a senior editor, guided the Sporting News from a black-and-white tabloid into a color magazine. He’s been with the Enquirer more than nine years.
Andrew Braford is deputy design director of the St. Petersburg Times. A 1991 graduate of the University of North Dakota, Andrew spent nearly 8 years at the Grand Forks, N.D., Herald and a year at the Post-Tribune of Gary, Ind., before moving to a design job at the Wichita Eagle in 1997. He moved to the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minn., in 2000 and then to the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch in 2001 before joining the Times in 2005. Andrew’s wife, Holly, is a designer there as well.
Reggie Myers is a free-lance graphic artist and technical illustrator based in Orlando, Fla., and owner of RM Basses, via which he builds custom bass guitars. A 1984 graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Reggie spent 12 years as a graphic artist for the Miami Herald, building a number of the paper’s groundbreaking visuals for its Hurricane Andrew coverage. He moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1996, to become graphics team leader for the News Tribune and again in 2004 to become graphics editor of the Boston Globe. He moved to Orlando in 2006, spending a year as graphics editor of the Orlando Sentinel.
Reggie, Andrew and Kenneth share a birthday with baseball manager Joe Torre; actors Mark Sinclair Vincent (who calls himself Vin Diesel) and Hume Cronyn; director Paul Verhoeven; singer Martha Reeves; astronaut and senator John Glenn; South African president Nelson Mandela; zillionaire Richard Branson and journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Plus, today is National Ice Cream Day and National Caviar Day. Seriously.
Best wishes, all, for the happiest of birthdays today!