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About Steve

Steve was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in the small community of Chateauguay just outside of the Island. His boyhood home lay less than a minute from his school and backed up to a large Indian Reserve, which presented him with hundreds of square miles of woods to explore.

He would often leave for school as the home bell rang and spent every lunch hour at home with his Mother and Grandmother, playing with his German Shephard, Buster, or swimming in the family pool.

Summers were spent at his grandparents large dairy farm chasing cows, playing in the grain elevator and discovering the joys of getting lost in acres upon acres of corn fields.

By his sixteenth birthday, it was obvious to his teachers that he had a creative bent. His grade ten art class project was a thirty minute film which the entire tenth and eleventh grade turned out for in the auditorium. One year later, he entered Dawson College and worked his way through by working as a lifeguard.

After graduating from Dawson Collge with a degree in Advertising Design in 1976, Steve set off to tour North America in his 1967 MG Midget, against the better judgement of virtually all his firends. Upon returning several months later, Steve opened Steve Ink, his own graphic design firm.

This site sets out to celebrate 30 years of travel and work. Very little has changed.

Steve regularly goes on his travels, usually to places where he can be in the ocean, having spent several months in Florida, Jamaica, Mexico and California in between projects in the early 80's and then moving to St. Maarten for eighteen months to work on the Discover St. Martin Magazine and visit the Islands surrounding the area. His work has appeared in Ocean's Realm magazine, Discover St. Martin, Outside, Sierra, National Geographic and many others not to mention virtually every major newspaper across Canada.

It was during this period that he became a scuba diver, completing his Open Water, Advanced and Rescue Diver training in the waters of the Caribbean.

Again, in 1991, Steve set off on a year long voyage aboard his 37 foot Beneteau Blue Grace, which is another story he is working on adding to this site, and ended up in Bermuda, where he worked for a variety of companies there assisting them with brand identity and large scale tourism brochures for the Bermuda Department of Tourism.

In 1994, he was asked to relocate to New Symrna Beach in Florida to assist a company in developing their business and ended up producing marketing materials for The Silverton Group before moving back to Montreal in 1995 to work with Peter Overing of the Dicom Group.

In 1998, he visited Belize with his wife, Yim Heng, and they purchased a little over an acre of beachfront property, where they hoped to build a small resort

Around that time, Steve was hired by BBDO in Windsor, Ontario to help them launch the Chrysler PT Cruiser and that launch was highly successful, winning Steve the Best in Canada Marketing Award.

He was promptly headhunted out to Vancouver Island, where he and Yim found a home in James Bay. At this point, with the Pacific Ocean a five minute walk away, Steve became a PADI Scuba Instructor.

In 2001, Steve had been building the houses down in Belize when he and Yim were offered the opportunity to run Robert's Grove, the top Five Star Resort in Belize and they decided to accept, since they would be working less than five miles from their newly built beach home

After several years of teaching scuba diving along the barrier reef, they chose to return to Canada. During their stay, Steve led hundreds of diving expeditions on to the second largest barrier reef on Earth and led Whale Shark expeditions for the World Wildlife Foundation.

Upon their return, Steve began creating websites and direct mail materials for a series of non-profit companies, which are featured within the pages of this site and recently relocated again to Vancouver Island to create marketing materials for several resorts and has quite a collection of new materials available to show.