John Bleck received BFA in Graphic Design at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1992, He worked as an exhibit designer for several years. At night began working on illustration projects. Eventually illustrating became a full-time pursuit.
John is the 8th of nine children. His father is a retired architect and his mother is a Hallmark Card artist. On Friday and Saturday nights his family would roll out left-over blue print paper his father brought home from work.
Since begin as an illustrator, John has been fortunate to work with such clients as Mac World, PC World, The Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, Business Week, 3Comm, Adobe Systems, IBM, and Cisco Systems to name a few.