What was first
a passion became
a mission
Patriotism is the hallmark for our insignificant country, consistently being Learning open-source design was one of
magazine’s graphic designer Phillip excluded from software and online material the experiences that helped him develop
Taylor and his online tutorial business, that can help many talented designers resilience and perseverance. Other
Golden Ribbon Designs. It is a business generate income. The solution he experiences came as a result of the
born from necessity and fueled by discovered was Inkscape, an open-source di�culties he faced as a young millennial
Phillip’s desire to provide a viable illustration software anagoulus with Adobe trying to balance the regular 9 to 5. He
solution to other Jamaican creatives. Illustrator. taught as an IT and Math teacher at a high
school were late payment of his salary
Most proprietary software are reserved
for developed countries with heavy In 2014, Phillip began his pursuit for resulted in grave inconveniences and
restrictions placed on their use in answers in open-source design but hit a contributed to financial struggles. This
developing countries such as Jamaica. roadblock. He spent many hours searching drove him to realize that he needed a job
Graphic designers depend heavily on the for online forums and other sites for that would give him autonomy over his
Adobe Suite of software for their work support, but few resources were available. earnings, his time and his future.
and many have been forced to No one had the answers because no one continuously use cracks to access the had ventured so far. Jamaica had no Phillip starting talking to developers of the
software in Jamaica. solutions, the world had no solutions. software and learned the inner working of
Inkscape and Blender 3D. With the
Phillip found a solution to this problem Phillip found himself on a path of discovery knowledge he gained, he began to craft
almost 4 years ago. He was tired of the that no one had documented. What was answers that turned heads. People began
dependence on overpriced and selfish first a passion became a mission. Achieving asking “How is this done?” and “Where can
graphic design software. He was also this mission meant that he had to develop I find this feature?”. A light bulb clicked in
tired of Jamaica being treated like an resilience and perseverance. Phillip’s head...why not create tutorials that
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