Fired from Grocery Store → Art Director + Designer who does good work for great people. 17-years creative professional. 150+ clients. World’s OK-est dad.
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What’s up! I’m Jonathan Maloney 👋
I’m an Art Director and Graphic Designer with 17 years creative professional experience based out of Atlanta-ish, Georgia.
I love doing good design for great people.
In an industry where it’s too easy to take yourself too seriously, I try and find the fun and joy in what I do, every day.
Here’s a little bit about me:
Life Highlights:
👰♀️ I’ve been married for 14 years to a woman who is 150% cooler than me.
👨👦👦 I have 3 sons, 2 of my sons have special needs. I learn from them every single day.
🎶 I’m inspired and obsessed with music and art.
Professional Highlights:
🎨 Art Director for one of America’s largest churches
🎨 Creative Partner at Brightful Studio
🎨 Design, Brand and Logo Designer at JonathanMaloney .com
🎨 I’ve been lucky enough to have worked for multiple award winning marketing agencies
Things I Enjoy:
☕️ Good light roast Coffee.
🍺 Better double IPA Beer.
📚 Reading as much fiction and nonfiction as I possibly can.
😑 Collecting Vinyl Records + Collecting mean looks from my wife for spending too much money on vinyl records.
🎸 Being painfully mediocre at my Fender Jazzmaster Guitar.
If you want to read my thoughts on creativity, really good design and tolerable dad jokes follow me at @JonathanMaloney.
Introduce yourself below, I'd love to connect!
Congratulations to @JeffWri on your release, and thanks for letting me design your cover!
I’m always so flabbergasted that people trust me with their passions.
Working with a rad client on these single covers has kept me busy 🔥
I'm still pretty hot on this annual report I did a few years back.
What's something you're working on that you're feeling super proud of?
Happy Sunday, friends.
Behind every successful man on X, there’s a good woman who doesn’t care about his followers and just hopes he’s having fun.
Hey creative,
Be 10 minutes early to all of your meetings.
Clients need to trust you care as much as they do.
Trust goes a long, long, long way.
I unintentionally own an emotional support dog.
No training, nothing. He’s a literal mutt.
When I’m too stressed, angry or sad this dog will press his body onto mine until I’ve calmed down.
It’s annoying, it drives me crazy, but it’s taught me something.
The vibe you bring into a room can be toxic and distracting even if you try and hide the way you feel.
Get your head right friends, you have more influence than you think.
( cute dog pic for likes 🐶)
Hey creative,
You don’t have to knock something down to build something up.
If your idea is good enough it’ll stand on its own two feet.
If you’re in any type of leadership, say it with me 🗣️:
Being a leader doesn’t mean that your’e better.
Being a leader means that you elevate people who are better than you.
Jonathan’s official guide to obtaining free BBQ:
1. Find a local restaurant you love.
2. Talk to the owner.
3. Design a killer t-shirt.
4. Barter for tons of free BBQ.
5. Repeat.
Hey creative,
What makes you “weird” is what makes you wonderful.
Keep doing you, because no one else can ✊🏻
Sometimes I'll read something that instantly makes me want to create.
Reading "All that is made" by @Alabaster_Co continuously pulls me out of complacency and creative burn out. I've literally read it 15 times.
Here's some posters I did inspired by a few passages from the book.
