The History of 72pixels.com

Hello, I'm Paul Consiglio, Art Director, Graphic + Web Designer, Consultant, and Photographer. This how my life as a designer came about and how the site was born.

 

My story.

 

I grew up in Buffalo, NY. The once very hard working, industrial steel and grain city of Buffalo, now known as Zero City. I started pursue college with the love of the computers with a computer science major. Within a year of number crunching and trying to learn a language from another planet, I decided to switch my focus to my real passion — design. Since Buffalo has molded me into a very eclectic and artsy being, Buffalo State's Design program was perfect for my degree. After four lovely years I finally received my BS in Design.

 

My first encounter with a design job was with producing the spotless, wrinkle-free packages you see in commercials such as Doritos. One of those bags would take me about two days to complete just so someone could photograph or film the product or prototype in a commercial. I never did get a free bag of Doritos.

 

After a couple of other design and freelance jobs I decided I needed a major change. I also had the urge to ski and snowboard on a real mountain, not just western New York's hills covered with blue ice. So with a little research I decided on the best snow on earth — Salt Lake City, Utah. Boy was I right on the snow, but what a culture there or lack of was a shock.

 

So from here I pick up my design once again with working at a newspaper, a massage college, national marketing firm, Equis (a Reuters Company), and a Obeo (a real estate marketing tool).

 

Im married to my beautiful wife Emily and have a very nice little house in Sugarhouse, Utah. I'm picky and take my time with these things, no need to rush. All is good. Now i could relax. :)

 

Also, we have a little baby girl named Charlotte who is going to be running the show soon enough.