Despite getting sent to the principal's office on occasion for drawing pictures of teachers with arrows through their heads, Craig Marvin knew his calling was entertaining the masses through art.

After completing the requisite high school education, Craig earned his B. A. degree in Cartography in 1979 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. (It was the only way to substantiate drawing maps all day.)

Coastline Graphics, a custom T-shirt company was born in 1982. With a homemade press in the garage and a screen cleaning set-up in the bathtub, Coastline designed and printed shirts for UCSB, the city of Santa Barbara, numerous retail establishments, and community organizations. When he wasn't dragging ink across a screen, Craig perfected his illustration techniques producing fashion and technical art for clothing shops, medical facilities, and architectural firms.

The new age of computer animation and the excitement of video production lured Craig to the Bay Area. (Now remember, people were still reeling from that exciting new video game, "pong.") Craig was hired as a full-time contractor with Hewlett-Packard to create computer-based training programs. Two-and-a-half years of 2D and 3D animation, video set design, and video storyboarding, as well as camera operation, and basic editing came to a screeching halt as multitudes of H.P. employees dove under their desks avoiding falling debris caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The facility-crippling event jettisoned Craig into the cold, eery, dog-eat-dog world we call the high-tech job market.

Undaunted by jeers and finger-pointing from the computer's early-adopters, Craig applied for a contract position with the then cutting-edge company Silicon Graphics. The position was his for the taking after he demonstrated his keen design talent and innovative concepts -- and after he realized the creative director was an old friend of his. After three fast-paced years of developing product branding solutions and packaging, creating logos and IDs for national and international programs, art directing photographers, marketing and project managers, Craig had gained an acute awareness of the power of graphic design. It was now time to gather his unique design style with his high business standards, and pressure-tested management skills -- and hit the road.

In 1995, Craig began Marvin Design, sold on the undervalued idea that addressing the purpose of a campaign is more important than the quantity of money one pours into it...and the equally fundamental thought that the business of visual marketing is entertaining and exciting, and that energy should be experienced not only by the end-viewer, but the client as well.

Companies such as Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, and Intel have benefited from Marvin Design's innovative solutions and concept-to-completion management. Craig's award-winning work not only exhibits his unique design style, but also involves a well thought-out strategy to ensure each piece exceeds each client's expectations.