1965 - a good year
One of two twin boys popped out, called Robert Paul Snow. Born in the month of May, and destined to follow the creative traits of the star sign, Rob soon took up the pencil and was drawing his favourite character, Winnie the Pooh. With a little creative flair he strived to draw and create. At this point was unaware of his future calling. Born in the middle England city of Leicester, the early years of Rob's life were as any other boy: School, play and life lessons.
Many years passed
His school years were taken up with all the rigours of a normal education and curiosity in girls, but Rob still found time to be creative in other forms. Liking the subject of woodworking and carpentry. However, moving from High School to Comprehensive school he was inspired to chase an itch inside, after seeing a very influential film in the year of his thirteenth birthday. Being the only creative within his family, he found support from a close friend and family who all had a creative touch.
The wonder years
So, Rob took up the pencil again and was drawing and designing and learning the ropes of the creative process. With some set backs in the education system, Rob eventually made certification in both Art and Design at 'A' level. His path to college was set, and even in hindsight could see the values of all that terrifying exploration of the art of the pre-Raphaelites, so packed his bags and took his convictions as a creative, and set off for college.
Enlightenment
Even though born in the Sixties, the hippie days of college had passed by, by the time Rob picked his pencil up and made his way through the doors of the Foundation building. However, these small town eyes of this would-be creative soon opened to the treasure trove of possibilities that was hoarded under the title of art. After one year his choice of degree was set. And off to Newcastle this creative was to go.
Fog on the Tyne is all mine, all mine
His three years on the Media Production course began. In a strange land, Rob explored the processes of creating film, photography and video graphics. And with his tendencies toward drawing noted, he began to follow the path toward animation. The big day came in 1989 and Rob graduated Newcastle Poly with his degree, and the real challenge opened up before him.
Enter Real Life
Freelancing seemed the way to go, and on leaving college, Rob was offered work with Yorkshire TV and Northern Arts. So the commercial and aesthetic sides were both in step. Later, the work came from companies collaborating with the BBC and the film company, Siriol.
During his stay in Geordie land, Rob was offered a chance to go work in Oxford for a computer games company. This then led Rob back to his home town of Leicester, where he took up a position at De Montfort University, as an animation technician.
Whilst working at De Montfort Rob decided to take up the task of getting a Masters degree. The subject of his research was Multimedia, and at the same time Rob was taken on as a lecturer in CAD, Animation, Graphics and Multimedia. Also spending some time as consultant within the college and doing video title work and cd-rom development and programming.
Century's End
On a great day in 1999, Rob achieved a commendation in his Masters degree, and with his part-time contract at the university at a close, moved to Greece. There he married his present wife, and decided to set up home.
Research and returns
On arrival in Greece, Rob took up a position at a research institution connected to the main University in Thessaloniki, dealing with interface evaluation and development. During this time Rob was made a happy parent, with the birth of his daughter Lythia Phoebe. Then during a return to the UK to baptise Lythia, Rob was offered work in Bristol, working for Computer games company, Hothouse Creations.
Playing at work
With the opportunity to have stable work for the first time in his career, Rob enjoyed the role of Interface designer for the games he worked on; which were Sky Sports Football Quiz and Casino Inc. Life was good in the games industry and the experience was very rewarding for the variation that the work provided.
Educating
Rob returned to Greece for personal reason in 2003 and was instantly rewarded a teaching position at an art college. His role was in aesthetic development, but has now changed to drawing, creative thinking and visual communications. Rob still works and practices the creative process, but also began to branch out into freelance work.
Spreading the wealth
For the past six years, Rob has been building up his client base and has worked in many freelance positions covering multimedia projects with Dimos Thessaloniki, and web design with StarFM, Lina Apartments, Muses Villas, Kalogrea Language school and Thanasis Papadopoulos Photography. Other work involved illustration and graphics for several companies such as Olympian Cinema, Sierra Mountain Productions, Goin' Lupi, Angel Kids, DMN, Macon, Adore Magazine and Hyphen Publishing to name a few.
In this time he was also given the opportunity to have his designs printed on the world famous Ritzenhoff Glasses in four different designs.