You are reading a 1997 entry from my Curriculum Vanitas page. The next one is titled “My first design job”.

The summer of ’97

The summer of ’97 unexpectedly leads me to South Africa where I’m destined to follow in my father’s footsteps as proprietor to his industrial air cooling companies.

Needing to learn the trade, I work away the days in the workshop and mines and breweries of Southern Africa. Being a geek at heart though, I remain drawn to colours, letters, numbers, shapes and figures. Soon enough I convince my dad my passion lies elsewhere by converting his complex and manual calculations to Excel and offering them as on-line tools Shortly after, I am to go study advertising.