SylverDesign
  • Home
  • My Studio
  • Portfolio
    • Paintings
    • Paint Pouring
    • Animal/Pet Art
    • Portrait Artwork
    • Murals
  • Contact
  • Digital Art

Memory Lane - Going to Adobe

4/29/2015

0 Comments

 
PictureThis is an actual photo that I took of the Adobe head office when I was in California.
I was discussing with a friend my experiences when I was first teaching in the 1990s and many great stories came out. This is the first anecdote which tells my visit to San Francisco as well as San Jose, California. It was 1997 and my husband worked for Canada Trust. He created EasyWeb and Canada Trust won an award for being the second online bank in the world (missed out by a few weeks by Wells Fargo). 
When I found out we were going, I called ahead to Adobe head office and spoke to a manager and ended up setting up a meeting with them for when I was down. One day when we were in San Fran, I had a rental car and decided to travel from there to San Jose down the El Camino Real (road). Along the way I saw the headquarters for Netscape (THE browser at the time), Apple (saw all the basketball nets in behind the building,) and of course Adobe. There was only one building back then,  before they expanded.  While at Adobe I was given a canvas bag (I still have it) and other swag. The most exciting thing they gave me was a CD with Illustrator 7. It was not available in Canada yet at the time and since they appreciated my spreading their software gospel in Canada, they gave me a copy. 
At the time i was in the thick of teaching Illustrator and Photoshop at Fanshawe night school and corporately. I was very proud to show my students the "stuff" that I was given by Adobe and I felt like a kid holding the CD of Illustrator, knowing that it wasn't available in Canada yet. 
More stories to come....

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Sylvie Verwaayen

    This blog is to showcase my ongoing work.

    Archives

    October 2019
    November 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • My Studio
  • Portfolio
    • Paintings
    • Paint Pouring
    • Animal/Pet Art
    • Portrait Artwork
    • Murals
  • Contact
  • Digital Art