Faces Of New Bedford – #31: Roger Andrews

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Happy New Year! Meet Roger Andrews, a 45-year-old commercial artist.

Roger grew up in the city and came from a modest family, who lived in and out of some of the housing projects throughout the city. With moments to spare, during the summer after his eighth-grade year, he got into New Bedford Voc-Tech, where he pursued the commercial art program.

During that time, graphic design was mostly drawing based, which allowed him to grow technically. Upon graduating he enrolled in Butera School of Art, which has in recent years been absorbed by Fisher College, where he continued his education in their two-year Sign Painting program. Having impressed the faculty at the school he received a full ride to take part in their 3-year Commercial Art program, which they allowed him to finish in 2.

Upon graduating, he worked for several years for ad agencies in Boston, understanding and learning what it took to make it in the graphic art business. He would notice that when the companies he worked for had large projects, they would hire freelance designers, who made exponentially more than he did at the time, to assist in completing these contracts. It was soon after than he decided to venture into the freelance world.

Some years after this decision, he also started teaching at his alma mater, where he formed a close relationship with one of his students Chris Ford. Chris went on to work for Hasbro in the games department and this was the moment that Roger’s life as a commercial artist really started to take shape. Chris asked for assistance on Hasbro’s board game redesign project from Roger, which opened amazing doors for him. He was introduced to Bill Concannon, who Chris later started Pilot with, and this led to Roger doing more work with Hasbro.

Since then Roger has worked on character design for all of Hasbro’s Star Wars Galactic Heroes line and Marvel’s Super Hero Squad, as well as many board games that we know and love. This opportunity, has allowed for Roger to see the world and even be a keynote guest at comic conventions all over the world.

Roger has also done work for Angry Birds, Jurassic World, Transformers, and Best Fiends, just to name a few.

As an artist, Andrews is appreciative of the renaissance that is taking place in our city. With the support that is show to young creatives and entrepreneurs he hopes to see our city continue to progress in the direction that it is headed.

To check out Roger’s work visit his site: http://www.rand247.com

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Faces of New Bedford is a project by Colton Simmons. If you are interested in booking a shoot or getting prints from the series email all inquiries to colton@coltonsimmons.com

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