Google designer Ryan Germick visits Merrillville High School

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — When Ryan Germick graduated from Merrillville High School in 1998, he regularly used floppy disks, designed posters on an old Macintosh desktop in the school's art loft and had never used Google.

After high school, Germick's education led him through teaching and freelancing gigs in New York, India and Japan before landing at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters where he's made a career of bringing personality to the tech industry.