Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan and Erin Boxberger.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Megan and Erin. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Megan:
Before I hit my creative stride I was strictly an athlete. In high school, a required drawing class first exposed me to my talent for the medium. In the summer before college I explored the principles of architecture at a camp, which further sparked my interest in design as a profession. First, at Judson University and then the University of Kansas, I was both an athlete and a visual communications and art history major. It might sound crazy to say that athletics can inform one’s creative consciousness, but as an athlete at the college level I learned how to balance at all cost, we work to perfect our trade, we aren’t scared to attack a new project—in fact, we crave the challenge. There’s something about allowing beautiful design to happen, about the problem, the process, the execution and the rush, the feeling I get when the finished product functions effortlessly. I moved to Dallas to work in advertising after I graduated. I’m working, learning and I’m chasing that feeling, putting all of myself into what I get to creative every day.
Erin:
Growing up it was easy to be bold, mainly because I’d watched my sister do everything first, take risks, sometimes fail and then try again. I’m the youngest, and by the time we moved out of our childhood home the walls bore the brunt of pounds and pounds of paint, my early creative ventures as an interior designer. I was a fashion designer that refused to brush her hair, a string art entrepreneur who refused to take off the polyester skirt her grandma gave her for birthday (that is, until she tripped on it and broke her arm). Every part of me growing up is a part of what I am today. My sister and I played on the same varsity team in high school, she was struggling with a torn ACL, never once did she ever discourage me from stepping up and being my best. At Notre Dame, I was a 4-year varsity letter winner, I declared pre-med, then economics, the anthropology and although I found every one of those subjects fascinating I wasn’t painting walls, making pajama pants, or braiding bracelets under the table in math class. I craved the ideation, the tactility, the process, the doing. Three years into my 4-year program I realized that I hated almost everything I’d created in college—not one project felt like it was worthy to be claimed as my own. It wasn’t bad design, but I hadn’t decided that it mattered to me. I was distracted in a huge way by my sport, rowing. It was a love affair that had me taking a 2 year leave of absence to try out for the 2016 Olympic rowing team. During that leave I not only got to perform at the highest level in my sport, but I got to explore freelance graphic design without the borderline paranoia of the classroom. I worked with clients who I found by word of mouth, or families who’d hosted me while I was training to make the Olympics, anyone who looked at my work and didn’t care that I officially still had a year of school left. I found out more about myself as a designer in those two years than in the first three I spent at school. I needed the projects to be real, not theoretical, I needed to be able to pursue design and rowing, simultaneously, at the highest level.
Has it been a smooth road?
(Megan) My biggest obstacle was learning creative confidence as my strengths and weaknesses were adjusting from strong athlete to future creative.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Creative on Tap story. Tell us more about the business.
My sister and I like to say that we are your concierge and can help with your every creative need. We specialize in graphic design but pride ourselves in being multi-faceted. A few things we practice include event planning, interior design, painting and photography to name a few.
Competitive edge and family is what sets us apart. My dad once told my sister and I (after we had chosen our own design paths) that in college he was swayed from choosing a creative career because of a professor. He is a great artist and encourages us to do what we love. We love and want to do good design and help others do the same.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
I’ve found over the last two years, that the market for good design is never fully saturated, there is always someone out there who has an idea, a notion to explore a fresh re-brand or is in need of creative direction for their company.
Contact Info:
- Address: 1707 N Hall St. Dallas TX 75204
- Website: meganboxbergercreative.com
- Email: mb.txcreative@gmail.com
- Instagram: megan_boxberger
- Other: Skype: DallasCreative
Image Credit:
Amanda Raylee Photography
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