Jefferson “Jeffy” Tinydog 2014-2024 In the Spring of 2010 Estelle and I moved from the house we rented to The Waldo , an upscale renovated apartment building in Downtown Cincinnati. Due to the recession and changing climate of downtown at the time, we were able to get a great rent price and live in the heart of the city. I was working at LPK Design up the street, so I was living literally 2 blocks from my job. Down the street from us was Washington Park, also recently renovated. The park had a dog area, and I told Estelle now that we lived in a spacious apartment near an awesome park, we should get a dog. Fast forward to January 2014. I was now working as an independent designer (I was laid off from LPK in 2011). I was on site with one of my clients when I got a text message from Estelle. She sent me a picture of a dog. This dog was SMALL… super teeny tiny (about 5 pounds at the time). It was a 6-month-old black and tan Chihuahua/Yorkie mix and was just as sweet and adorable as h...
Hello again. As many of you may know, I have the luxury of having a pretty awesome career in design. It wasn’t always this way. It certainly was not my original intent, but as they say “wanna make God laugh, make a plan!” If you’ve been following this blog, you have read my thoughts regarding my 1 st 10 years in this business, my evolution into a design leader for major consumer product brands, and my recent revelation that some of my fan art had been used 20 years ago in the 2 nd Spider-Man movie. I’m not going to re-hash that topic again. I deleted my posts, and I’m done talking about it. I said I’m glad I could shrug that experience off, and I’m officially closing the topic. That said, I always had a complicated relationship with comics. I have been a fan since I was a child, and I always wanted to draw comics for a living. As I got much older, I realized that “making a living in comics” and “paying my bills and being a grown up” were two very incompatible states of exist...
That's me on the left rear during the P&G new design employee training. The tall guy to the far right is Phil Duncan, VP of Design, Hey everyone. Long story short: I worked at LPK when I started this blog. I was let go from there and started my own branding studio. Did that for 7 years. Now I work for P&G (coming up on a year for that anniversary). My old company website is now gone. The url now points to this blog, so I guess I should start posting here again. At some point I'll migrate the older Johnson McNair blog posts here (I know some of you liked them), but for now please stay tuned! Dave
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