I get to help people discover brands and products that will help them have meaningful experiences in the outdoors. I get to help people have meaningful and fun wedding days while capturing their day through photographs that they can look back on for generations. Now, I’m primarily a wedding and brand photographer. Art and design can be powerful tools to inspire, educate, and enhance the quality of people’s lives. More than that, I realized that medicine isn’t the only way to help people. In my design classes, I was learning to solve people’s problems through design. I worked on creating cooking tools for people with mobility problems, designing logos for nonprofits, and using typography to convey social justice messages. I started taking a few art and design classes and loved them. That meeting with my advisor changed the whole course of my career. I didn’t know what industrial design was at the time, but my advisor described it as “architecture for things”. He suggested that I add a minor in industrial design. I met with my college advisor and told them that I missed being creative.
I was taking primarily math and science classes and it just wasn’t for me. At the end of my first semester, I was miserable. My mom was a doctor, and medicine seemed like the best way to help people, so I went off to college and decided to major in environmental science on a pre-med track. When I graduated high school, I wanted to be a doctor because I wanted to help people. I didn’t start out pursuing a creative career. Hi Abby, why did you pursue a creative career? We had the good fortune of connecting with Abby Shepard and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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