Kelly Granola Blanscet - principal & positivist
kelly@graphicgranola.com

Kelly has been around the advertising design block a few times. She has been Senior Art Director at Parker & Wood (San Antonio) and Nourzads (Austin), a Senior Designer at Williamson-Dickie (Fort Worth), and has done contract work for more companies than you'd want to read about. Her production skills were honed with direct marketing giants Hart Hanks and Advo, the latter of which once sent a mailing to every address in the U.S.

A framed document confirms that she graduated from art school in the Pre-Macintosh Age. So she knows how to use all the arcane tools of the trade, which will come in real handy if this computer thing turns out to be just a passing fad.

Her development as a creature (and a creator) is intimately tied-in to her cultural granola upbringing in Southern California. As a result of untimely earthquake damage, a year or so of elementary schooling was conducted in temporary architecture. Saturday morning cartoons were dismissed in favor of ballet lessons. At age ten, she occasionally meditated with football legend Joe Don Looney. And that soulful white boy Delbert McClinton, a childhood friend of the parents, also came around from time to time. As a teen, she drove an old-fashioned moped to Summer School at Beverly Hills High; abandoned her goal of being a prima ballerina, on grounds of insufficient leg length; dropped out of Hollywood High after her sophomore year, and moved into her own groovy pad at Fairfax Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. For reasons which remain classified, she soon migrated back to her Fort Worth birthtown, enrolled at Arlington Heights High School (with a co-enrollment at the illustrious Career Planning Academy just long enough to design the yearbook), and graduated in fine fettle once she successfully completed the required coursework in (don't laugh) Home & Family Living.

After finishing up at university, she toured the backwoods of Mexico (including a brush with the Zapatistas in Chiapas), and then moved to Boulder Colorado, where she resided, briefly, in a teepee. And from there, on with the career, which now forges ahead in the granola climes of Austin.

In her free time, she likes to watch TV. As Karen Black once said, "There's some good thangs on it sometimes!"

*If you're not hip to Maxon's fantastic artistry, the movie CRUMB is a good place to start.