Early Years (1972–1975)
After graduating from Auburn University, in 1971, I had a short stint as a medical illustrator at the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical Center. My next job was art director with Sankey 2 Advertising Agency located in Mountain Brook, Alabama. The agency was owned by bothers Phil and Joe Sankey. Phil was the creative director […]
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Read MoreWilkinson Row (1976–1981)
I returned back to New Orleans in 1977 to work as the senior art director for Jim Pertuit and Associates that soon afterwards became Pertuit and Alford Advertising. The agency owned by Robert Alford and Jim Pertuit was on the one block long Wilkinson Row in the French Quarter near the Mississippi River. The studio […]
Read MoreBorderline (1982–1990)
New Orleans Bauerlein Advertising was founded by spat wearing Wally Bauerlein in 1922. It would be the largest and oldest agency in the state for the next eighty years. I worked there throughout the 1980s as a vice president, senior art director and associate creative director. Borderline, a nickname for the agency preferred among former […]
Read MoreNineteen Nineties
I started my own business, Phillip Collier Designs, in 1990. For the first two years, all the design and production work was done by hand at drafting tables using t-squares, triangles, ink pens and rubber cement. It would only be a couple of years before everything would be crafted and produced on computers. During this […]
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