I'm Calvin. I'm a designer from Toronto. This is my story.
When I was twelve years old, my best buddy Zach got a birthday present from his dad. It was a book, on how to program HTML. He was bragging to me at school the next day that he was a pro web programmer. We were pretty competitive, so we made a bet. Something to the order of millions of dollars, that I could not get better than him. I think I may say, although some may differ, that I have come further than he has in this endeavor. I have yet to squeeze a penny out of him.
Once I felt comfortable with HTML, I moved on little by little, throughout both elementary and secondary school, learning little tidbits of what we people call web design. In my final year of secondary, my girlfriend coerced me to move to toronto with her. Best decision of my life.
I enrolled in the one year certificate Art and Design Foundation at George Brown College in Toronto. I spent the following summer doing a research project for the college on Drupal and Web CMS technologies. I have now moved into George Brown's 3 year Graphic Design program.
I am practicing as a freelance web and graphic designer. Check out my portfolio to see some of my stuff (if I ever get around to adding said 'stuff').
Shoot me an email at calvintennant -at- gmail.com.