Ken August Meyer

Biography

Ken is a drugstore stock boy turned Zamboni driver, turned graphic designer, turned art director, turned aspiring filmmaker. He studied art and design at the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University in Ohio. He freelanced for several years as a graphic designer, before taking a position in 2002 at the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, in Portland, Oregon. After working as a senior art director at W+K for over a decade creating commercial work, he has taken medical leave to focus on his battle with systemic scleroderma. While having had the opportunity to work with some of the most talented creatives in the world, he gained a passion for storytelling which drove him to chip away at making a film about his struggle living with the disease.