![]() I figured it was time to learn how to do it.” “A lot of my work had a vintage feel, and I loved letterpress. “My kids came first, and I wanted a less hectic lifestyle without so many deadlines.”īut she found another way to feed her creativity. While her future looked bright, Gulde opted to step back from full-time work when she and her husband started their family. The CDs still can be found on the shelves next to Gulde’s desk, along with a carved folk art piece of country music icon Hank Williams and, of course, pencils. “I also did Kenny Rogers’ last album.” Her work was featured in major design publications, and she also won a slew of advertising awards, local and national. Other projects include design work for superstars such as Garth Brooks. Her work for Texas swing band Asleep at the Wheel earned her the Grammy in 2000 for art direction. Gulde soon was designing CD packaging - covers and the cool booklets including the liner notes - for big-name artists. She learned enough on her own and, along with her natural talent, began competing for work with the rest of the staff. It was her boss - the same one that told her that she would never move up in the company - that gave Gulde her first lessons in design and photo software. “I knew I would have to learn new skills.” “I was still sketching on paper while everyone else was transitioning to computers,” says Gulde. “My boss told me that just because I worked there to not expect to move up to be a designer,” says Gulde, who later became an accounts manager where at meetings, she would throw out her ideas for logos and artwork. ![]() After graduating from Wheaton College in Chicago, she moved to Nashville, where she landed a job as a receptionist at a design agency with many clients in the music industry. Instead, she chose sociology because she loves people. She took art classes in high school and college but wasn’t confident enough to major in art. “I was drawn to show posters, creative typography and old graphics.” “My mom was an antiques dealer and always had cool stuff,” says Gulde. She grew up mainly in Oklahoma and Panama her father, a doctor, was in the Army. Her love of old things and graphic design can be traced back to her childhood. And did we mention there’s a Grammy Award with Gulde’s name on it sitting casually on top of a piano? The rest of the house, home to three children and a dog, is a wonderland of art, kids’ school projects, antiques and funky collectibles. She runs her year-old business, Lucky Pencil Co., out of a tidy second-floor office she shares with her husband. ![]() Months later, we met up with Gulde at her home in a historic Fort Worth neighborhood. Reading glasses perched on her nose, Gulde was carefully checking her work, looking for uniformity and imperfections. ![]() When we saw Sally Gulde, she was hand stamping Musgrave pencils - made in Shelbyville, Tennessee - on a vintage Kingsley Hot Foil Stamping Machine. The added bonus: Unlike our pens, no one ever steals our pencils, and they never run out of ink. If that makes us an analog dinosaur in a digital world, so be it. 2 made of soft cedar with a not-too-soft lead and an uncrimped metal ferrule holding the pink eraser in place. Our writing instrument of choice is a No. ![]()
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