Charles Apple

Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays today to the wonderfully talented Erica Smith, a multimedia producer for the Post-Dispatch of St. Louis, Mo.

A 1999 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University, Erica spent three years as a designer for the Times of Munster, Ind., before moving to the News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., for a year. She returned to Munster as design editor in 2004 and moved to the Post-Dispatch as a news designer in 2006. She moved to the interactive side in 2008.

Erica is also a compulsive blogger. Among her sites: Her “primary” blog, Graphic Designr, a fabulous resource called Paper Cuts that tracks layoffs in newspapers and a wonderfully wacky feed called the Story of Man.

Erica shares a birthday with musicians Bette Midler, Lou Rawls, John Densmore (of the Doors) and Brad Delson (of Linkin Park); golfer Lee Trevino and comedians Richard Pryor and Woody Allen.

Plus, today is National Pie Day and Eat a Red Apple Day. Seriously.

Best wishes, Erica, for a very special birthday!

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