Who am I and Where am I Going ?

Hello Surfer, 

I would like to take this chance to not only personally welcome you to my site but also thank you for your interest in my work. First a little bit about me, I am the non-typical down south Cajun, coming right at you from the southern heart land of America. New Iberia, Louisiana is just 3 hours west of one of the world’s most culturally rich locales, New Orleans, La. With that all too familiar French Quarter around the corner, I’m no stranger to the festivals held here, from Mardi Gras the Sugar Cane Festival to Jazz Fest and Festival de’ International, certainly a place for growth as an artist in quite a variety of mediums from Music to Movie.

I progressed through the local school district with never a thought of becoming an artist, a project manager, or an individual involved with cinematic arts. During the course of those years and even now I often find that I shift from subject to subject, hobby to hobby. It was not until I entered High school that I found a course that gave me a mix of two things I had always liked, computers and movies, though at the time I had little fore thought in a direction I would take. I continued to wonder through my senior years of High School until one of my best friends, Christopher Louis, aka, CJay, came along and asked if I would be  interested in forming together, along with a few colleagues two to build a new age Media Studio at some point in the future. At that point, I had a gleaning insight to what I wanted to do with my life having already taken the plunge into Hardware Level Fault finding, I decided to move on to the Digital media and entertainment industry.

Over the course of the last several years I have spent time across several mediums, from Sound Design to full blown Advertising. I started off at home, working when I could where I could, spitting out designs that I of course, at the time, thought were the best things I could ever produce. Of course experience has shown me that those early designs and even some of the more recent ones have only been building blocks in an ever lengthen marathon of design and development. I eventually moved into a small Design shop where I spent time in the advertising industry creating vinyl graphics, from Wide-Format printing to Lighted signs, and even Screen printed signs of all shapes and sizes. I’ve also spent some time out side of that shop developing a range of work in video based Advertising. Though my time at that shop was well spent it was short lived, college scheduling issues just trumped everything. At that point I was well into college working on my Bachelor’s of Fine Arts anyway, and there was no point in trying to slow down my progress further. Nearing the completion of my BFA, I hooked up with another Advertising Specialty institute, Action Specialties.

Action Specialties, LLC is a multi-industry Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI).In 1994, Lenny Lipari, Craig Landry and Nancy Landry opened a small shop in the heart of Southern Louisiana. Action Specialties, LLC, has since grown to be one of the nation’s top Advertising Specialty Institutes, tucked away in New Iberia, Louisiana; A small city known for its rich cultural heritage as well as its southern hospitality.  Today, the workforce is built of more than eighty employees and their full-service facility is over forty-thousand square-feet.  Their production floor is home to industry leading machinery and personnel.  From high speed Wide-format printers and automatic Screen-Printing presses, to more than one-hundred monogramming heads.  The facility includes a fifteen-thousand square-foot warehouse that is home to a wide selection of uniforms and accessories ready for customization and resale. The on-site Art and Information Technology Departments work to develop online-stores, safety incentive programs, and a variety of art for use in the various different departments within the facility.

While my time at Action Specialties was limited it certainly was a launch pad for my continued growth in the digital media industry. During the time I spent there I took up yet another new skill path, PMP, or Project Management professional. I have continued to work on this Masters in Project management through the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Having spent some time over the past years of my life, and through college, discussing the idea of creating a studio with CJay, we are now developing what appears to be a new an innovating way of approaching the production process of Digital Media, a process that may one day slingshot our ideas for the formation of a studio into reality.

Thanks for visiting,
Luke A. Hebert