After high school, I pursued a fine arts degree at Indiana University. In the summers and following my two year stint at IU, I traveled and worked as a graphics designer and musician in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC.
I returned to Indiana and worked in advertising, first as an AE and later as an ACD and producer. The recording studio I built to service my ad clients saw more and more demand as a commercial production facility and I left the agency business to run the studio full time.
On a trip to Chicago, I received an offer to design, staff and manage an audio restoration department. I accepted the offer, sold my studio business and developed the restoration department for four years.
I then opened an audio post room in downtown Chicago with September Audio as my dba. During this time I continued my involvement with the Chicago Recording & Engineering Society, serving as Treasurer for five years and President for one term. I also taught Sound for the Visual Medium (Audio Post) two evenings a week at Columbia College.
In 2002, my wife and I started discussing the possibility of moving to a living location more connected to the great outdoors. When our building went condo, it seemed to invite a lifestyle segue. A short list of cities made our final cut and after a “location scouting” vacation, we moved to Portland, Oregon in June of 2003.
In response to Time & Tide, we moved back to the Midwest in Spring of 2011. As Dorothy said, "There's no place like home..."
Currently, I’m occupied with a variety of media projects, including development of a series of “how to” DVD titles for the RV market and restoration of a new series of lectures for The University of Chicago.
Craig Harding
Director of Media Development
A Sample of Past and Present Work:
TV spots for Ameritech, Burger King, Jewel-Osco, Hoover, Carrier, Red Lobster
Corporate audio post for AC Nielson, Abbott Labs, Mentor Graphics, Washington Mutual, C.A.R.E.S. Oregon, Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Sierra Club
Episodic TV such as A&E “American Justice,” “Unexplained” and "Oregon Experience" for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Infomercials for Volvo and Link Tools
Features, shorts & trailers such as, “Third World Cop” (Palm Pictures), “The Dream” (Goodvin Pictures), “Lana’s Rain” (Reigning Pictures), “Johnny Aztec” (No Guff Pictures), Play Again (Ground Productions)
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