For over 20 years, I worked as a corporate marketing graphic designer in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Honolulu. Although the work was steady, it did not allow much room for creativity, which led me to launch my own company in 1999, Graphics Chef Design.

 

The company name, Graphics Chef Design, was inspired by my love of designing beautiful graphics and my passion for cooking. Growing up, my mother would always have me help her in the kitchen, which cultivated my love of cooking and delicious food. After 20+ years of working as a graphic designer, I decided it was time to step away from my computer and enter the kitchen to pursue my dream and attend culinary school. Having worked as a busser, waitress, hotdog cart operator, and barista in my earlier years; then a line cook, a culinary teaching assistant and more recently an executive chef after graduating from culinary school, I knew working with food was where I would be the happiest…but sometimes I missed doing graphic work.