Mairi MacLeod Gray, creative director, freelancer and publisher at Gray+Whyte reveals how her artistic ambition has driven her forward
What did you want to be when you were young?
Anything that involved drawing. I didn’t think you could make a living from anything art-related until I found out at 13 that there was a thing called graphic design and I knew instantly that’s what I wanted to be. It married perfectly my love of drawing and sketching and my tendency to want things perfect.
What are the main career stepping stones you have taken?
I left the Outer Hebrides when I was 18 and went to Aberdeen College to study graphic design and production.
After three years I graduated and secured a job at Max&Co as a junior designer, which was incredibly lucky as only three people in my year got a job in a very tough economic climate.
I worked there for 10 great years; Max&Co were a very young dynamic company and we had a fantastic team working there.
