THOS.'s success has always been based on a fundamental mantra espoused by Tom: A message's packaging is as important – or more important – than the message itself. This gallery features a span of work by Tom exclusively. For Emmy Award®-winning television, film, and other commercial highlights from Greg, as well as digital and broadcast media reels from Zane, whose talents are now both available to THOS. clientele, please see each of their bios on the Team THOS. page. Tom's own creative background and media production experience is as diverse and unusual as his political experience, business credentials, auspicious initiatives' strategy successes, and other consulting accomplishments. ------- His engagements with corporate-advertising and major U.S.-based creative interests began quite early; at age 17, he worked for Raven Aerostar (Aerostar International) on the fabrication and character painting (faces) of two, one giant- and one novelty-size Macy's® Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons, the 50-foot Snoopy and the 25-foot Woodstock. – [Fun fact: The two parade balloons combined weighed approximately 400 pounds when helium-inflated, and required 32-combined handlers to control aloft.] – While at Aerostar, and until beginning college, Tom worked in the same design capacity to create two multistory, ground-up character inflatables for Disney® (Minnie Mouse and Goofy). At 22, Tom received an Academy Award® Best Picture-winning film P.A. screen credit (Dances With Wolves), for set-dressing work he did on location and during filming. In the decades since, Tom has worked with HBO creative advertising and a national TV-production series (Sex and the City and The Awful Truth). He was retained by the DC-, MD-, VA-, and Puerto Rican-led Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) to design a series of large, neighborhood-identifying banners for public street light display throughout two distinct Washington, DC neighborhoods. Tom's creativity is truly innate as well; he is an accomplished, lifelong artist. At 30, for example, the Secretary of the United States Senate commissioned a graphite drawing of the isolated NASA Friendship 7 space capsule. This piece was displayed during an unveiling event at the U.S. Air & Space Museum, where it was presented to astronaut John Glenn, the capsule's famous pilot, by Tom himself. – [Fun Fact: After the unveiling, this portrait-style drawing was "co-signed" in a continuous line around the outside edge by 44 U.S. Senators, and hung outside Glenn's personal office at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State University until his death.] – Other senatorial-portrait art by Tom hung in the U.S. Capitol Building for nearly a decade after he left Capital Hill. Most work as an artist by Tom now is as an oil painter.