Sheri McCulley Seibold’s earliest memories start in the college studios where her art-professor father taught, alternating with the Oklahoma farm where she spent time with her grandparents every summer.

Sheri grew up among the easels, paints, and brushes of college art departments, and remembers that her earliest goal was simply “to create!” She remembers, while a toddler, not wanting to go to the baby sitter while her mother worked as a secretary. So she tagged along to the office and sat quietly under her mother’s desk where she happily drew, cut, and stapled some of her earliest creations. (She liked scissors so much that she got her own pair while still pretty small, and you can see one result of her early cutting practice when she went after her bangs in the photo at left.)

A little later, Sheri sat on the living room floor of her grandparents’ Oklahoma farmhouse, spreading out buttons from a big jar, matching them to swatches of old fabric, and picking her favorites. Her grandma, Vera, was a collector and saver whose thrift led Sheri to find the beauty in classic fabric designs, buttons, and other familiar household items.

After leaving college with degrees in photography and graphic design, Sheri spent several years doing commercial design projects. Although she was developing the typographical, illustration, and graphic design skills that landed her in a few design annuals, Sheri always returned to creating beautiful, one-of-a-kind cards, home decor items, toys, and patterns that reflected the originality of her father’s art studio and the familiarity and style of her grandma’s home.

Now, Sheri spends all her time creating new designs for products, delivering a uniquely recognizable style that we could call fun, classic, whimsical, or any of the other adjectives writers use for artists. But you can just look at her portfolio and decide for yourself.

Incidentally, when Sheri decided to open her own product-design studio, she revived the old nickname her family always called her as a child: “Sheri Berry.”