Annie Alex Conn, an artist, has worked in the broadcast television industry for 20 years. She is known in the industry for her visual sensibility, her keen sense of composition and design. She has worked with a collaborative approach to creating seamless visual effects and has remained fascinated with generating unique and unconventional designs.  Conn studied photography and video at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  She later joined CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, where she created on-air graphics during the world events of the fall of the Berlin wall, Tiananmen Square, Noriega takeover and Desert Storm. While at CNN Headline News she headed “Special Design Projects” for  CNN Newsource.

In 1993 Conn moved to San Francisco to work for Preview Media, a local post production company. As their in-house Art Director, she worked on such projects as the Northwest Airlines Inflight News Graphics and Special Project for Disneyland.

Conn wanting to continually learn the latest in technology she then joined Discreet  as an application specialist for their effects product line. After a year with Discreet,  Conn went into production with the widely acciamed  San Francisco-based digital design and effects house Raduim. During that year Conn’s credits include such technically complex spots as “Room” for Dodge Neon, “Smoke Rings” for the Lexus Dealers Association and “Herd” for American Century. She then returned to Discreet for four and a half years.  She worked as a Discreet trainer and application specialist in the sales office in Santa Monica, California. 

Conn lived in Northern California for many years, where she freelanced for such companies as Hallmark Entertainment, Ntropic, Digiscope, Pixel Envy, and NDTV, in New Delhi, India. She has also launched her own company meanwhile... productions a visual content creation company.

Annie moved to the foothills of North Carolina in 2020 the start of the panmenic and once it was over she started making pottery at the Tryon Arts & Crafts School,  And started her new passion Ancient Horse Vases.

 

Also to her credit Conn has exhibited nationally her personal artwork in over 22 exhibitions and her work is held in 11 private and museum collections. Her work has been published in Photographer’s Forum and “Darkroom Photography”.