I was raised by artists, not just artists, educated artists. My weekends as a child were dominated by art openings and other art related events. I never wanted to be an artist like that. I gravitated towards music. That was my art. But funny enough, here I am, a graphic artist, just like Pops. I am still a musician but that’s a difficult way to make a living.

My father has been a graphic designer for so long that he predates Photoshop and computers. When I started to show an interest in graphic design, he lit up and took me under his wing and taught me everything I know. He was good at it too, having been a professor at the University level for many years. I started designing sites with a nerdy friend of mine who could sort of put them together on the web. After a falling out during the middle of a project, I had to figure out how to finish the coding. I did, and enjoyed it so much that I didn’t stop there. I kept learning and teaching myself how to code websites and just dove deeper down the well.

When one of my Dad’s client’s needed a new website, an odd partnership formed, Sasso Studio. I was no longer designing websites, I was building them, this time with my Dad. Our first site together was for his client Uni Filter back in 2012 with a custom searchable database of all of their 1,300 products. As we worked together, though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was becoming a better designer at the same time I was learning how to code these sites. Because when he would show me his designs and as I coded them, he would explain not what he wanted but why he did what he did. Those concepts sunk in deep. I love working with my Dad to this day and I owe my abilities as a designer, and really as a coder, to him. Thanks Pops!

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