Al Chinchar spent three years at The Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio (two of them on full
competitive scholarships). He finished his education at The University of Houston.

Chinchar began his career in Houston by working as a trade show exhibit designer and
sign painter at Southern Display Sign Service.

After two years at Southern, Al was invited to join McCann-Erickson/SCI in 1968 as an
art director on the Enco/Esso (now Exxon) account. Two years later, he and two partners
left McCann to form the design studio Korshak, Chinchar & Strickler, Inc. For the next
eight years, Chinchar functioned as the creative director of the fifteen-person studio on
projects for clients ranging from major oil companies to theme parks.

Chinchar Visual Communication Inc. (CVC) was incorporated in 1978 as a commercial
graphic design and illustration boutique. At that time, Chinchar and his four staff associates
provided design services for two major hospitals in Houston, three major oil companies,
Zapata Offshore, a heavy construction equipment distributor, one ad agency and Esso Eastern.

In 1981, Al Chinchar joined Ogilvy & Mather Houston as a senior art director, where over
the next five years he worked on almost every account in the agency. There he also met
his wife, Susan, also an art director. He resigned as Associate Creative Director in 1986
to reactivate Chinchar Visual Communication Inc..

Since then, the studio has created marketing collateral materials for Texaco, Shell,
Equiva Services, NASA, KBC Advanced Technologies, AIM Financial, Transamerica Funds
and many other accounts.