When I was a teenager back in the late 1990s and at the turn of the millennium I worked in advertising design for a couple of area newspapers, the main local newspaper, and the local television station. It was what you could call my first full-time professional job (weekly paycheck, health benefits, 401k, etc.)
I had figured these designs were lost to time. I didn’t have any work from that period saved in any format… until late May of 2026. I was looking for an article that was posted about me years ago to use for in a web journal entry, so I checked out an archive, and was stunned when hundreds of hits were returned on a search using my name.
Well, another thing I frequently contributed to these publications were editorial supplements (graphics and photo-illustrations) to go along with copy. I received a byline for all of those. The archive search found all those instances of my name.
I don’t know why I never considered them showing up in an archive search, and though they are terribly low quality black-and-white scans, digging through the work from those early years activated long-dormant memories. I scrolled through a proverbial portfolio of my earliest published works; most of which I haven’t laid eyes on since I was a teenager.
I decided to clip a few of each of advertisements and editorial supplements I designed to make the small gallery below for posterity and nostalgia. It’s an interesting feeling “discovering” a stash of designs that I created when I was essentially a kid, and then were lost or forgotten for nearly 30 years.
The sizes are pretty varied, so for the sake of being visually concise, the thumbnails are all skewed to block-format. Click on any image to see the proper design.
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Editorial Supplements
