Ken White worked for 4 years as a common laborer in a printing and publishing house in his hometown of Kings port, Tennessee, before he got started. He applied for an apprenticeship in the Art Department and was turned down.
He went to the Union and legal department to ask for a chance for a position in the Art Department. He was given
6 months to prove himself. He was hired after his apprenticeship ended. There was no job market in King sport, so
Ken moved to Los Angeles.

White attended Art Center and Chouinard Art Institute part-time. He eventually opened Ken White & Associates in the early 1970s. Later that decade, he move into his own building, and changed his firm's name to White + Associates.
His firm's client list includes: Pacific Financial Company, Mead Paper, Lockheed, First Interstate Bank, Infomatics,
American Multiple Cinema, and Covington Technologies. White + Associates won many awards in all of the major design competitions. Ken believes that you should do the best you can to make the work better.

Ken taught graphic design classes part-time at Otis and UCLA Extension.