Nick Shinn, R.G.D. was born in London, England in 1952, educated at Bedford School, and acquired a Dip.AD in Fine Art (1974) from Leeds Polytechnic, Yorkshire. He lived in Toronto from 1976 to 2009, before moving to Orangeville, 60 km north of that city. He has been a member of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (R.G.D.) since its inception in 1996.
During the 1980s he was an art director and creative director at a number of advertising agencies, and a partner in the environmental marketing company Earthmark from 1988 to 1990. He went digital in 1989 and started...