For the last 66 years, Tom Morin has led a life of creativity. Five years ago he set out to trace and acknowledge all of the family, teachers, contemporaries, clients and students who have influenced him to lead a life of design.This research has resulted in a 352 page book, "THREADS OF INFLUENCE: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design."

The book also includes 38 essays written by well-known contemporaries Tom worked with over the years; designers, photographers, writers, printers and clients who each reflect on the question “who or what most influenced them to lead a life of creativity”? The results are both insightful and educational.

Tom Morin was born in upstate New York in 1944, and spent my youth in Rochester, New York. he wanted to play baseball for the NY Yankees or be an FBI agent or an art director on Madison Avenue. Art and design won. He graduated from Syracuse University, in advertising design, in 1966. Then he graduated from Yale University, in graphic design in 1968. He spent two college summers interning at the Xerox Corporate Design Center, in Rochester.During the early 1970s, He worked, in Pittsburgh, at the Westinghouse Corporate Design Center for three years. In 1974 he co-founded Jack Hough Associates in Stamford, CT and New York City. For 20 years he was one of a hand full of art directors designing dozens of annual reports each year for Fortune 500 corporations.

In 1991 he founded CONTEXT DESIGN in South Norwalk, CT. This design firm combined my corporate experience and clients with a emphasis towards the arts and cultural organizations that included publishers, museums, foundations and colleges. In 2000 he moved CONTEXT DESIGN to Santa Fe, NM and for over 10 years have designed books, catalogues and identity programs for some of this country's largest museums, colleges and publishers.