[2] After his graduation at University of Southern California, Sampler started teaching art at Fremont High School in Los Angeles.
In 1956, Sampler joined a design mentoring group created by Saul Bass, Norm Gollin, Louis Danziger, and Milton Zolotow.
[3] In 1973, Gruen & Associates was contracted by developer Henry Segerstrom to design and build South Coast Plaza, a shopping center located in Orange County, California.
Sampler was influenced by Black quilt makers in Southern America, especially referencing their birds of flight form in his triangular patterns.
His work was also included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way".
Aside from other minor exhibitions, his body of work is largely obscured, with New York Times and Design Observer describing him as "forgotten".