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From an early age, Gareth had always enjoyed sketching World War II planes and the Oak trees in the fields around his parent’s home also had a keen interest in model engineering, metal work, and photography purchasing a box camera when he was twelve with his own darkroom at home which

came in very useful when creating the exhibition and display for the Arkwright Society Cromford Mills in the early 80s.

His father was also good draftsman and photographer who tapped into Gareth's creative side attending from 1970 the James Kessel School of Art on Saturday mornings in Eastern Green Coventry aged 13 but sadly the unfinished picture on the right is all he has left with the others having either faded away or damaged in storage, who knows at the age of 13 they would amount to much?

To listen to an informative recording James Kessel made in 1971 please see the link below.

https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/390ed43d-8416-0849-9ef8-1e0b9c5ee378/1/

To see some of James Kessel work please see the link below.

http://www.supergraphics.co.uk/james_kessel.html

With an Art 'O' level as his best school result and realizing how hard it would be to make a living as an artist aged 15 left school to seek commercial work as a sign writer/painter with a keen interest in graphic design and the scalable printing process of screen printing which would later play a vital part in his creative career.

Super Graphics established by Gareth in 1990 has been creating vinyl graphics since the early 70's so when Gareth discovered Fablon vinyl, he would wrap his drum kit four times in as many years ending with the red & yellow striped design when playing various gigs in the midlands area with his first gig at Kenilworth grammar school. He has now been creating vehicle graphics and signs since the mid-'70s but there were no large format printers back then just old-school sign writing or spraying his designs directly onto signs and vehicles or onto vinyl sheets.

The red and yellow drum design in the pictures has a 2" strip cut from a roll of Fablon vinyl then applied separately, taking great care to position the first colour so the second lines up easily.

The early eighties saw the intro-duction of the first vinyl cutting machines when Gareth in 1983 was putting his graphics and photography experience to good use working for Network Films.

1983 Quantel Paintbox

Gareth was always looking for quicker easier ways of creating titles and graphics for Video and TV commercials to work along side Quantel Paintbox and AV title equipment he was using at the time.

Network Films was probably one of the first company's to make use of this new technology with Gareth commissioning vinyl cut graphics on test equipment still under development by a company called Norris Marketing Graphics based a few doors up on the high street in Lutterworth, Leicester.

This new technology was perfect for motor sport with racing teams soon realizing it's potential for putting their sponsors logos and products onto racing cars and support vehicles.

In the late 80's sign companies were at the cutting edge (no pun intended) of the digital revolution when the first vinyl cutting machine came to the market.

This new technology was soon to replace some of our sign writing skills along with the new age of digital printing a few years later to meet the ever changing needs of our clients helping us to maintain design continuity, tighter deadlines and more importantly be more creative.

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