Lilley Blossoms At NJ Transit

"Because they found out I had an art background, [the army] made me a graphic designer," he explains.

Lilley spent the next eight years traveling the world as an army graphic designer. His travels took him to the war room of the Pentagon, and to Turkey as part of NATO.

After leaving the army in 1977, he spent four years freelancing in Germany—living a mere 20 miles south of Heidelberg. Needless to say, he learned a great deal about printing there.