2011 is the year of Bryan Berg's 37th birthday and 20th year as a professional cardstacker. Shown at right, the knockdown of Bryan's first Guinness World Record in 1992 at his hometown of Spirit Lake, Iowa. Bryan has continued to hold the Guinness title ever since, and been commissioned over a dozen times to break his own records. In this photo, the tower is collapsing on a young Bryan at age 17 in the first year of his stacking career. Visit our 20 Years of Stacking page to see more projects from Bryan's early days, and follow his process of discovering the various techniques he now uses in his work.

Since 1992, Bryan has traveled across Europe, Asia, and North America building card projects for global public relations campaigns and special events. Stay tuned for an announcement next week about Bryan's very first project in Africa!