Craig Bissell.
Craig Bissell has worked as an Art Director for several firms before operating his own design business for 15 years. He was most recently the Creative Director with Gregg & Associates where he still works as a consultant after re-opening his own business. He's also taught design courses, evaluated portfolios and appeared as a guest speaker at several colleges and universities.
Bissell's work has been recognized with over 90 design excellence awards from The Kansas City Ad Club OMNIs, PRINT’s Regional Design Annuals, PRINT’s Best Logos and Symbols, Flash Magazine, The Los Angeles Illustrators West Exhibition and The AIGA.
Deanne Pearson.
At 18, Deanne Pearson thought she wanted to be an architect — until she got halfway through the architecture program at the University of Kansas. So she graduated with degrees in English and Art History, and found herself searching for a career in the pallid, uninspiring job market of the early ‘90s.
She taught herself publication design to make herself more marketable, and spent many fulfilling years writing and editing newsletters, designing company communications, and planning advertising campaigns for a variety of local companies and nonprofit organizations.
After detours into event planning and nonprofit leadership, Deanne made her way advertising. Since 2005 she has worked at Blacktop Creative as a Brand Navigator. She works with her clients to determine spot-on marketing strategies that are expressed in dynamic, quality creative executions. She keeps her teams on strategy, on time and on budget. And occasionally she even gets to write a little copy.
Dennis Pruitt.
Dennis, a VML partner and group creative director, uses his extensive experience in digital and traditional media to lead his team of copywriters and art directors to create and produce innovative work that is extremely effective for clients like: The American Cancer Society, YRC Worldwide, Sprint, and many other high-profile organizations. A copywriter by trade, Dennis and his team continue to be recognized for creative executions, consistently winning awards in both digital and traditional media.
He has a long history in the industry, beginning as an associate copywriter in 1972. He was a partner of his own agency, Harmon True Pruitt, then struck out on his own to form Pruitt Creative Services. In 2000, Dennis came to VML as a team creative director, and continues to help oversee the agency’s creative product in Kansas City.
Steve Wilson.
Steve Wilson, b. 1952 and native of Oklahoma City, has been a working professional photographer for twenty-six years. He uses various non-silver and alternative processes for his personal work.
Career highlights include contributions to several of the Polaroid Corporation’s brochures promoting Polaroid Image Transfers in 1991, 1993 and Honorable Mention in the 1st International Polaroid Photography competition in 1994. In 2003 he was a contributing artist to the show, “Shades of Greatness” at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
Mr. Wilson is employed as a Senior Photographer IV at Union Hill Studio of Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, where he has been for twenty four years. In 2004 he was awarded the Barbara Marshall Award, a fully funded six month sabbatical, and began study of wet plate collodion.
His work is held in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge Mass.; the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Hallmark Fine Art Collection, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, all of Kansas City and other personal private collections.
Personal interests include Ballet, dance, reading, experimental video, traveling, and photographic research.
David Morris.
In 2008 David Morris celebrated 20 years of business. The photography, though constantly changing, has continued to grow and diversify. We’ve not only managed to keep pace but to surpass expectation in a very dyanamic and changing industry. I’m very proud of the wide range of clients I’ve been fortunate enough to serve and equally proud of the results DM Photo has been able to give them.
- Oddest work experience ... Had to blow smoke up a turkey’s back side
- Fascinated/Obsessed with ... Maps
- Has a knack for ... Baking
- In his spare time he ... Does metal sculpture
- Personal quirk ... "Male-spot blindness"
