By Reinaldo Sepulveda
I chose graphic designing as it was one of the careers that caught my eye while deciding on what I wanted to do in the future. Architecture was always something that I was interested in but could never see myself truly doing until I found out that graphic designing could have a huge help with architecture. That is when I decided to further my education on graphic designing helping me find a true passion for it. One graphic designer that I wanted to focus on was a man by the name of Archie Boston Jr. He was an African American man who was born in 1943 in southern Florida. Just like many other African Americans during that time Archie experienced a lot of racism, but instead of giving into the hate he fought against it by getting an amazing education at Chouinard Art Institute located at Los Angeles for graphic designing. The level of education he received and the hard work he put in during school and after school would land him in multiple ad agencies which would soon lead him to form his own designing company with his brother called Boston and Boston. Archie made sure that he would work hard and get hired by amazing design firms saying, “I worked hard to become a good designer, so that I would get hired at a good design firm that places value on good work, and not the color of one's skin.” Archie would soon later become president of the Art Director Club of Los Angeles at the age of 29 being the first black president of the organization, he would later receive his masters from the University of Southern California and begin his career as an educator leaving a long legacy behind him and continuing to do even more amazing things like producing several documentaries.
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