I'm Ted Haigh, and, by vocation, am a graphic designer for feature movies and television. I've been doing it for 20 quick years. I've worked on some notable projects with a lot of extremely talented (and notable) people.
It's a great job. I never cease to count my blessings for having taken this path in life. It's hard to conceive of enjoying any other work quite this much. That's one potent way to measure success: loving your job, loving your life -- and I can't imagine having any other. My professional links provide a full tour of what I do and have done in the service of cinema.
Personally, my interests range far afield, and that pleases me as well. I have a general interest in history - with an emphasis on the Industrial Revolution through the 1940s. Within that large subject, I have a few specific muses: Vintage cars, vintage cocktails, the advertising art (and industry) of the 20s and 30s, dance band music 1925-1935, jazz, early electric devices (most especially quackery), period apparel, old photography (with a particular interest in stereo photography), vintage televisions, books, books, books, and about any manner of old paper ephemera I can lay hands on.
With all those interests, I've developed a little bit of knowledge about a lot of stuff... with one specific area of out-and-out expertise... the history of the cocktail and related drink styles. When I research and expound in these realms, I take on the guise of Dr. Cocktail. While the parallels to a super hero's secret identity are evident, I've studied this stuff for enough years to know it is simply a cooler, more social form of rabid nerd-dom. So be it. I have even written a book on the subject. My Dr Cocktail links lead to my small corner of acclaim via cocktail research and writing.
I am a Mac zealot, fan of the online experience, an occasional poet and photographer and a full-time dreamer. Life leads so many interesting directions... why limit yourself?
