Patti Harrison, MGDC
Partner
Patti is Creative Fire’s design chief, leading our team of creative directors and designers. She specializes in creation of annual reports that convey our clients’ stories with imagination and individuality.
Patti began life in Alberta, born in Edmonton and raised in Calgary. She eventually returned to Edmonton, initially working for the Federal Government’s Department of Supply and Services. She points out her dealings with the Edmonton Penitentiary were as a federal employee, not as an inmate. Also in Edmonton, she enrolled in Visual Communications at Grant MacEwan Community College and progressed to the University of Alberta’s Fine Arts program, studying visual communications.
Patti followed her heart to Kamloops where she worked for “the world’s smallest advertising agency” and also provided freelance design services. At a time when computers were not yet established as an integral tool in the graphics world, Patti enrolled in a computer graphics course at Caribou College and ended up freelancing for the college and a local art gallery. Patti broadened her creative pursuits to include radio copy writing, and became Creative Director of K97 radio in Kamloops. She also became an on-air personality, hosting “The Stereo Harrisons” daily radio show with Greg.
Next stop was Saskatoon where Patti worked at Pendleton/Penner and Tap Communications. She became Vice-President of Creative Services for MGM Communications before becoming a founding partner of Creative Fire, with Ken Juba, in 2000.
Patti has been active in a wide range of industry and community associations, including serving as President of the Saskatoon Chapter of The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and on the executive of Saskatoon Creative Play School. She was also on the organizing committee of the Frontiers Graphic Design Symposium.
Patti and Greg have two children, and spend their summers on the shores of Lake Diefenbaker.