We are a family business operating out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Our designer and creator, Kevin Herd, has been in the building and carpentry business for the past 27 years. He has done a great deal of work with kitchen cabinets and home building, but has always loved building things for children. He is well versed in the ways of carpentry and can build just about anything. Tanglewood Design has had a presence on the web since June of 1998, our www.playhousedesigns.com and www.tanglewood-design.com sites became operational in March of 1999. We love thinking up new things to design and build that will bring families together and provide wonderful memories. It is our goal and mission to give you excellent service and a product that really will capture your child’s imagination. We are very pleased to offer our products to you and hope you will stop by again to see our new designs. Art / Graphics We're very proud of our Art Department. Our artists and painters enjoy their work, and it shows. We enjoy reproducing our "standard" designs but look forward to the challenge of custom or customized projects. Our ART DIRECTOR is NEIL GALLOWAY & you might enjoy reading about his background: Neil’s artistic talent was recognized and utilized at an early age when asked to draw various teaching aids and bulletin boards in kindergarten. He did this while the other kids took naps. Neil has enjoyed a diverse career requiring versatility as an artist. He worked as a product illustrator for a major department store, and an advertising agency whose clients included Tyco Toys and Rain Bird Sprinklers. He has designed outdoor signs for Jiffy Lube, and Nautingham Mall, won 2nd place in the national Poppy Poster contest and best animation & Peoples Choice award for design of a float in the third largest parade in America. Neil enjoyed the position of Art Director at the award winning computer game company Access Software Inc. He provided art direction and created environment art for computer games including; “Amazon, Under a Killing Moon and Pandora Directive and the interface screens and game icons for the premier Golf game “Links” Neil evolved into character design and a 3D character modeler and animator. Also served as Lead Artist on Microsoft Golf. Neil spent two years traveling throughout the United States to fairs and art shows producing caricatures. Worked as an animation layout artist under contract with Marvel Comics and he worked on “Spiderman and his Amazing Friends” for Saturday morning cartoons on NBC. Other cartoons included “The incredible Hulk, Thundar the Barbarian, Gem, Scoobie-Doo and Dungeon’s and Dragons”. Working along side his talented brother, Grant, they illustrated Brite Music’s “Standin' Tall” series of books. Invited back to California, Neil received screen credit on the full length animated feature film; “Star Chaser the adventures of Orin.” Which was the first 3-D animated feature film. Throughout Neil’s career he has maintained an interest in fine art and is now able to enjoy this endeavor at Tanglewood Design. Roses, vines, trees, deer, portraits and cartoons are among his specialties and custom artwork is always an enjoyable challenge. He would love to create something special for you and your family. Tanglewood Design is fortunate to have Neil as its Art Director. ©1999-2008 Tanglewood Design All Rights Reserved - 080710 Thank you for visiting our site, please send us an e-mail if there are any questions we can answer for you or give us a call at (801) 261-2261.