Former resident puts talents into art direction at national magazine
By Christine Lancaster
CANTON, Ill. -
Ah, how relaxing to take a few minutes to escape from the real world between the pages of a Better Homes and Garden magazine.
Beautifully manicured lawns and gardens have nary a weed growing. Rooms decorated in the latest trends offer inspiring ideas for your own home. Articles explain everything from health and beauty tips, to organizing a closet, to painting the back fence. Mouth-watering recipes are showcased with tantalizing photos of the finest cuisine.
Now, just before you return to the real world where the toast gets burned, and the yard has crabgrass, turn to the pages at the front of the magazine. There you will find the name Amy Davis, associate art director. Davis is the daughter of John and Gloria Davis of Canton.
Those beautiful magazine pages get their beginning in the mind of someone like Davis. Davis says that from there, her ideas go to photographers and set designers. The ideas come to life in photo shoots which Davis directs. She then follows up with graphic designers who create the pages.
Davis has always been interested in art, but did not take time for art classes until her junior year at Canton Senior High School. She explains she wasn’t an amazing artist, but her interest and passion for the subject kept her trying all types of media in the field.
Davis gives credit to high school art instructor Scott Snowman. Davis explains that Snowman wasn’t just a "9-to-5" teacher. He cultivated her interest and her desire to learn more than the class could offer. Knowing her interest in graphic design, Snowman "went the extra mile" and offered her special projects.
After two years of art classes, Davis says she was hooked and knew this would be her career.
She majored in graphic design, with a concentration in advertising and minor in English at Drake University, where she received a $2000-per-semester art scholarship.
Her career direction was determined after she received a phone call from a design director at Meredith Corporation (publisher of Better Homes and Gardens), who had been given her name by Drake professor Connie Wilson. Davis says that Wilson not only taught, but owned her own design business, helping to better prepare her students for the competitive professional world. Davis was selected for the intern opportunity due to her drive and passion for the profession.
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CANTON, Ill. -
Ah, how relaxing to take a few minutes to escape from the real world between the pages of a Better Homes and Garden magazine.
Beautifully manicured lawns and gardens have nary a weed growing. Rooms decorated in the latest trends offer inspiring ideas for your own home. Articles explain everything from health and beauty tips, to organizing a closet, to painting the back fence. Mouth-watering recipes are showcased with tantalizing photos of the finest cuisine.
Now, just before you return to the real world where the toast gets burned, and the yard has crabgrass, turn to the pages at the front of the magazine. There you will find the name Amy Davis, associate art director. Davis is the daughter of John and Gloria Davis of Canton.
Those beautiful magazine pages get their beginning in the mind of someone like Davis. Davis says that from there, her ideas go to photographers and set designers. The ideas come to life in photo shoots which Davis directs. She then follows up with graphic designers who create the pages.
Davis has always been interested in art, but did not take time for art classes until her junior year at Canton Senior High School. She explains she wasn’t an amazing artist, but her interest and passion for the subject kept her trying all types of media in the field.
Davis gives credit to high school art instructor Scott Snowman. Davis explains that Snowman wasn’t just a "9-to-5" teacher. He cultivated her interest and her desire to learn more than the class could offer. Knowing her interest in graphic design, Snowman "went the extra mile" and offered her special projects.
After two years of art classes, Davis says she was hooked and knew this would be her career.
She majored in graphic design, with a concentration in advertising and minor in English at Drake University, where she received a $2000-per-semester art scholarship.
Her career direction was determined after she received a phone call from a design director at Meredith Corporation (publisher of Better Homes and Gardens), who had been given her name by Drake professor Connie Wilson. Davis says that Wilson not only taught, but owned her own design business, helping to better prepare her students for the competitive professional world. Davis was selected for the intern opportunity due to her drive and passion for the profession.
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