Nick France

Hi, I'm Nick France. I've been a professional in the fine art and graphic design fields since 1978. My first job in the commercial art field was as a paste-up artist (when you actually needed a knife and rubber cement to cut and paste). I then began designing advertising layouts, managing print production, creating traditional as well as digital illustrations, web graphics and web pages. I consider myself, above all, a front-end engineer and a web designer.

My role as a designer

After almost 19 years, I retired from TECO, a utility in Tampa, Florida as the Supervisor of the Multimedia Design Group in Corporate Communications. I considered myself to be among the luckiest of designers in the Tampa Bay area because I had one of the premier positions in town, and I knew it. I'm very blessed and I worked hard to stay there, each and every day. I have a saying that I live by; "When you're ripe, you rot, and when you're green, you grow."