NormGrock – Illustrator
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My Top 10 of 2015 – Entertainment

Every year I like to put together a list of my favorite entertainment of the year. It’s fun for me to look back and see the things that I enjoyed years previous. My rules to make this list are simple. I must have seen, watched, read, or just enjoyed this piece of media sometime in 2015. It didn’t necessarily have to have been released this year. That’s it. With that here’s my top 10 pieces of entertainment for 2015.

10. Rise of the Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics)
9. Inside out (Pixar)
8. Jurassic world (Universal Pictures)
7. Armada (Ernest Klein)
6. The flash (The CW)
5. Shovel knight (Yacht Club Games)
4. Destiny: The Taken King (Activision)
3. Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (Lucasfilm)
2. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
1. Splatoon (Nintendo)

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Growing up on the shores of Maui, Hawaii, Norm has always loved drawing. Since leaving the islands’ beautiful beaches and landing in Oregon, he went to college and received a degree in graphic design as well as an additional degree in digital prepress technology. After graduating, he worked for an interactive media firm in Corvallis, Oregon. While there, he was the company’s lead illustrator/designer and was responsible for creating illustrations, animations, and interactive products like video games. Now living in Beaverton, Oregon, Norm worked as an in-house illustrator for 10 years at a large education company in downtown Portland, Oregon. While at this position, he was the creative mind behind nationally marketed campaigns, numerous brand identities, toy and product designs, children’s books, as well as Web and interactive designs for the company’s design team. After leaving this position to raise his son, he now spends countless hours perfecting his craft as a freelance illustrator. He has worked with companies like Highlights Magazine, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Reading A to Z, Kaiser Permanente, KinderCare, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). He has created projects such as marketing illustrations, children’s books, coloring and activity books, video games, and educational products for these companies and others. Norm’s ability to draw has given him the chance to do the thing he truly loves: Create.

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