{"id":33279,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/adelaide-designer-s-nba-contract\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","slug":"adelaide-designer-s-nba-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/adelaide-designer-s-nba-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide designer\u2019s NBA contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide-based graphic designer Tyson Beck is producing artwork for the NBA.<\/h3>\n<p>Tyson\u2019s big break was some unpaid work he did for the NBA\u2019s Phoenix Suns. Instead of paying him, they passed his name along to his favourite team, the LA Lakers, who loved the Adelaide designer\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a good foot in the door and since then I\u2019ve just been working for probably hundreds of clients,\u201d Tyson told Jeremy Cordeaux on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost recently I\u2019ve been working directly with the league which is obviously a massive thing to reach out to someone from Australia to do daily work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson said he started designing when he was 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just playing around with photos on Photoshop and just making horrible things at the time, but I thought it looked good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of high school I didn\u2019t really know what to do and it\u2019s the only thing I was good at, I wasn\u2019t really good at anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to the full interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/196644678&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/crowley-unlikely-to-play-again-says-caroline-wilson\">CROWLEY UNLIKELY TO PLAY AGAIN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-pm-malcolm-fraser-dies\">FORMER PM MALCOLM FRASER DIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide-based graphic designer Tyson Beck is producing artwork for the NBA. Tyson\u2019s big break was some unpaid work he did for the NBA\u2019s Phoenix Suns. Instead of paying him, they passed his name along to his favourite team, the LA Lakers, who loved the Adelaide designer\u2019s work. \u201cThat was a good foot in the door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-33279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adelaide designer\u2019s NBA contract - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/adelaide-designer-s-nba-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adelaide designer\u2019s NBA contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adelaide-based graphic designer Tyson Beck is producing artwork for the NBA. 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