The Winter I Became Gary Kelley’s Courier

In the winter of 2009, I received an email from someone at Graphis Magazine . She had tried unsuccessfully to reach Gary Kelley by email and wondered if I could help. My office was just a few blocks from Gary’s studio. As a young designer I was thrilled. The agency I worked at had done a small amount of work for him—nothing significant—but because of proximity (and maybe a bit of luck), I found…