Biosketch

Drake Fillmore was born and raised outside New Haven in Branford, CT. He attended Branford high school and spent two years at the University of New Hampshire studying business administration and English. He then moved to Ludlow, VT, where we became a ski instructor and did a lot of painting and illustration on the side. He then moved out to Fort Collins, CO where he enrolled at Colorado State University as an art student. He graduated in 2002 with  BFA focusing on graphic design. He worked as a banquet bartender and server and ran security for the Mishawaka Ampitheater in the Poudre Canyon. It was in Colorado that his freelance business began and he took on clients doing print design solutions for local businesses. He also did an internship at Eagle Marketing in Fort Collins and worked part time as a graphic artist for Scene Magazine and Riff magazine.Some of his work was printed nation wide in Natural Home magazine and Parent magazine. After seven years in CO he moved back to Branford and worked at a local country club as a waiter and bartender. He then took a job at Shore Publishing in Madison, CT as a graphic artist, doing ad design and newspaper/magazine layout. He is still currently employed there and still runs his freelance business, specializing in logo and advertising design. Drake enjoys skiing, snowboarding, hiking, mountain biking, tennis, racquetball, camping, cooking, chess, cards, video games, movies and reading. He is now enrolled at Quinnipiac University studying Interactive Communications. Drake is interested in becoming proficient with web design and interactive design techniques.