Miguel Gifford currently resides in Gilford, NH in the Lakes Region near Laconia, New Hampshire. Since 2004 he has been airbrushing motorcycles, doesn't matter if it's custom, Harley Davidson, Honda or Suzuki, leathers, helmets, guitars, wall murals and computer cases. He specializes in murals and can and will paint just about anything. Miguel can also do graphics and illustration and designs t shirts, watercolors and oil paintings. He will work with the customer to bring their ideas to life.

He has 25+ years of experience in the graphics and illustration field from Production Artist to Senior Technical Illustrator and now in Custom Airbrush painting.  

 Miguel has a degree in Advertising Design, graduating from The Colorado Institute of Art in 1983. He has done graphics and photoshop work for magazine publishers, color houses and production companies. He has also done technical illustration for major corporations such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Motorola, Ingersall Rand, Volvo and Bay SYS. The responsibilities in these jobs included creating illustrations and designs for clients using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, Quark Xpress, Pagemaker, Isodraw, Unigraphics, Pro Engineer and Corel Draw.  Duties also included photo retouching and color correcting with Adobe Photoshop.  This work was performed on both Macintosh and PC platforms.

Some of the clients in the Laconia area include The Crazy Gringo, The Paradise Beach Club, Chassis Masters, Brady Heating & Cooling and Holo-Dek.