Bob Ahrens

Originally from the Northwest Chicago suburbs, Bob Ahrens has been a graphic artist just as the words Desktop Publishing was becoming known. His first introduction to the Macintosh computer and graphic software started in 1990 when he was hired as an Informational Graphic Artist for The Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois. It was there he won his first award for Informational Graphics.

He would spend most of his career working at newspapers around the Chicago area including as an Informational Graphics Editor. After a short stint at a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina he would be hired by USA TODAY in early 2001. There he would work on news graphics covering the 9/11 attacks to the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.

His expertise was in creating 3D models, interactive informational graphics and game reviews.

His software experience has been in the Adobe Creative Suite, Corel Painter, Lightwave (3D) and Blender (3D).