Before I had a design degree. Before I had a portfolio. Before I even knew "environmental design" was a real discipline with a real name — I was laminating menu panels on my own wide-format printer and taping them to a plexiglass window above a deli counter. This was around 2007. The client was a small neighborhood corner store called 8 Brothers Grocery. The brief, such as it was, came from me — I looked at what they had taped up and said something like: "I cannot allow you g