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Interfacing with the Top...

Over the years, Cook has worked with the top developers of many major projects. His expertise has grown due to career choices of being there when he was needed. In his youth, after graduation from high school, he was invited to go to work for the Texas Highway Department of Engineers as a surveyor and draftsman (They just came and got him the last day of school). Later he was offered a scholarship to Texas A&M for Engineering. Instead he opted for a degree in Communication Arts and paid for it himself. He graduated from Texas State University with one of the highest grades in his department. He later went to Dallas where he worked for the largest Graphics Studio in the Southwest. One of his clients was Ross Perot. His primary work was for Halliburton Industries. From there he went to work for International Silver as the Creative Director and Seminar Director for a book publisher. He delivered seminars all over the country at universities on the dictates of graphic communications. While there, he was promoted to a directors position on the management board.

As a result of his seminars and talent, Angelo State University hired him to head the creative publications section of the News & Information department, a part of the President's Office. For four years, Cook learned from the best, President Lloyd D. Vincent, and Cook's supervisor and friend, Mike Ryan. The university grew by several thousand students during Cook and Ryan's stint in creating a new image of the West Texas university.

The San Angelo Standard-Times hired Cook as its Assistant Publisher to redesign the entire "look" of the paper as a direct result of the redesign of the Angelo State publications and the success of the new marketing campaign he and Mike Ryan had developed.

At the paper, Cook received recognition from Editor & Publisher for his redesign work. He also received the National Family Weekly Award for the materials he designed for the paper. He was asked to redesign several West Texas publications and his illustrations were sought by the Presidential Museum of Midland, Texas. Cook began to be contacted by newspapers as far away as New Bedford, Mass. and Miami, Fla. to redesign their metro news products. Instead, Cook went to San Antonio to work with Harte Hanks Communications and various Advertising Agencies as a communications consultant.

In 1981 Cook started his own consulting firm and started freelancing with some of this nation's top firms. Most importantly, he was interfacing with the minds at the top, thereby making the marketing and advertising experience dynamic and expeditious.

 

Clients Served...

  • Hirschfeld Steel Co., Inc.
  • Graphic Illustrators, Inc.
  • Glenn Advertising
  • Bloom Advertising
  • Halliburton Industries
  • East Texas Motor Freight
  • Overhead Door
  • Redhead Sporting Goods
  • University Computing
  • Whataburger
  • Mustang Chevrolet
  • G. C. Electronics Co.
  • YMCA Expansion Program
  • Governor & Mrs. Briscoe
  • Texas Association of Business
  • Harte Hanks Communications, Inc.
  • Angelo Die-casting Co.
  • Taylor Publishing Co.
  • Standard-Times Newspapers
  • United Way
  • Fiesta San Antonio
  • Angelo State University
  • Lone Star Conference
  • Fiesta Del Concho
  • Westside National Bank
  • San Angelo Chamber
  • Atkins Advertising
  • First Federal Savings
  • Franklin Areoshow
  • MHMR San Angelo
  • Tower of the Americas
  • The Pitluk Group
  • Newsfoto Publishing Co.
  • Radio Cap Co.
  • Texas Jr. Miss Pageant
  • Paxson Advertising
  • San Antonio Spurs
  • Carquest
  • Tescorp Energy
  • Tesoro Petroleum
  • USAA
  • San Antonio Express-News
  • Seattle Post Intelligencer
  • Venus Oil Co.
  • Ultra Magazine
  • Texas Weekly Newspaper
  • Office of the Governor of Texas
  • North Star Mall
  • Office of the San Antonio Mayor
  • Texas Film Commission
  • Texas State Textbook Committee
  • Texas Criminal Justice Division
  • Cycle Sound Co.
  • HSI Holems & Shaw, Inc.
  • Charles Day Aircraft Refinishers
  • Saab/Fairchild (Swearingen)
  • Datapoint
  • Rio Grande Drilling Co.
  • Mock Manufacturing Co.
  • Central Park Bank
  • USAA Bank
  • Texas Citrus Exchange
  • National Hay Exchange
  • Continental Emsco
  • Valley Faucet
  • Tracy Locke Advertising
  • Schaefer Homes
  • Texas Instruments
  • Heart of Texas
  • San Antonio Economic Development Foundation
  • Char-Swis Breeders Association
  • San Antonio Magic Radio
  • Governor's Office of Community Affairs
  • Texas Association of School Boards.
  • Governor's Inaugural Committee
  • Governor's Select Committee on Education
  • HSI Teacher's Pet
  • TESCO Co.
  • San Antonio Monthly
  • SA Magazine
  • San Antonio Current
  • Cavender Auto
  • Frost Bank
  • Nathan's Jewelers
  • San Antonio Daily Commercial Recorder
  • Travis Savings
  • San Angelo National Bank
  • Sutherland Newspapers
  • Southern Governors Confernece Committee
  • Texas Education Agency
  • State Board of Education
  • San Antonio Mayor's "Tiger" Committee on Education
  • SA 2000 Technology Committee
  • USAA Technology Consult
  • National Space Foundation
  • and many, many more...
 
 

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