Name:
Ty Walls

Company:
The 4 Walls Creative

Job title:
Art Director

duties
Art Direction, design, illustration (caricature and cartoons).

Practising since:
1989

Country:
United States

City:
Fort Worth, TX

URL:
www.tywalls.com

Email:
Ty Walls

Selected client list:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Dallas Cowboys
Owl's Nest Toy Shop
RadioShack
SBC

Success Story:
ArtsNet - The Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County needed to launch a new and exciting fundraising event to support their annual budget, which supports several local public arts programs. Without the event, the entire organization would be at risk. The Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County is located in a highly competitive community in terms of non-profit fundraising. Their event would have to stand above all other fundraising and social events in Tarrant County to succeed.

The Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County (now known as ArtsNet, thanks to Ty's donated efforts for re-branding the Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County) recruited Ty to create the branding and theme of their annual event. The inaugural year was a huge success. The theme simply was the launch of what was to become the social fundraising event of the year for Northeast Tarrant County; The Taste of Northeast. Ty directed the look and the feel of the event. In addition to directing the appearance of the event, Ty managed the collateral materials that were a major part of getting the word out for this new and exciting event. Among the projects that Ty successfully created t-shirts, brochures, ads, posters, banners, tickets and a variety of specialty promotion items that were distributed to all the local chamber of commerce meetings.

The Taste of Northeast raised over $60, 000 the first year, and is growing in success each year. The Taste of Northeast was crowned the new social event that was a "must attend" in Northeast Tarrant County. The success of taste of Northeast allows ArtsNet to continue it's support for many area programs that support children, seniors, community theater, local dance groups and a variety of cultural enrichment programs. Ty has been spearheading the creative direction of each annual Taste of Northeast event since its inauguration. Each year he creates a new theme, look and feel for the event, yet somehow he manages to incorporate the original Taste logo within the design of the collateral materials. The Taste of Northeast is still the major fundraising champion of the ArtsNet.