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As a schoolboy passionate about drawing and nature, Julian Kernes laid the foundation for a successful career in graphic design. Kernes is now the president of his own company, JKE Graphics. Based in Trenton New Jersey and specializing in graphic design and preparations for screen printing, embroidery logo designs and layouts for paper printing—business cards, stationery and brochures in particular—JKE enjoys a reputation as a small company with quality output. Kernes is also a member of the Trenton Artist Workshop Association, and in 2007 he was named a Princeton Premiers Honored Member in Business.

Kernes’s desire to draw was with him from an early age, and he realized a knack for design when he transitions from sketching to drawing with ink. “When I was little I always liked to draw, and I used to carry a sketch pad around. Then, later on, I met some friends at Bucks County Community College. They were doing comic book art, so I started learning graphics and drawing with a pen.”
At Bucks, a teacher encouraged Kernes to look to the natural world for artistic inspiration. “I remember him saying, ‘If you want to know about design, look at nature.’ And a lot of times I would come up with a pattern based on a flower or a tree or some sort of natural setting, and then turn it into a graphic.”

Kernes later earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from the Philadelphia College of Art. He has built upon his talent often combining hand drawn art and refined it using computer graphics programs eventually built upon his hand-eye coordination designing directly with computer graphics programs. He is dedication to guarantee his business’s continued success, even in these dire economic times. “Because I don’t have a boss standing over me all the time, I can work a little bit more relaxed, and I can think a little more clearly. People have always liked what I do, and I’m getting more work than ever.”

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