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David Senior Successful Graphic Designer and Illustrator

David Senior’s illustrations have been featured in Rolling Stone Italy
magazine!

From a young age David knew he wanted to be an artist. He got support from
family growing up. In high school his girlfriend who later became his wife and
teachers from high school, pushed him along his eventual career path. David
would copy tapes and CDs from friends and he would redraw the covers by hand.
One of the album covers that he redrew was Green Day’s “Dookie”.

David Senior decided to goto Tyler School of Art, which wasn’t easy for him
because he had to work his way through college. Once David got out of school he
aggressively searched for a job. He fought through some major road blocks in his
career path, but it eventually led him to pursuing illustration on his own.

David Senior has some great advice for anyone going through lay offs, being an
artist, and or creating and using a network. He also talks about not keeping a
big secret from your family, like being laid off.

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Episode 27
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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woman you’re knocking on your hotel
apartments today I’m interviewing AC

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living history career in design and
illustration

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welcome to the show date thanks Joe glad
to be here

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glad to have you here in the studio with
me tonight let’s get started by giving

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the audience some background about
yourself

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alright i’m a 35 years old live in south
jersey a wife and three wonderful kids

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wasn’t always from South Jersey I grew
up a little bit on the west coast and

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down south memorial over here teenager
spend my life on the east coast long

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beach island area and made my way
towards Philadelphia when I went to

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college at our school of art so what
would you say inspires you Dave a lot of

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different things family life the usual
suspects there but i think the biggest

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thing that inspires me would be other
work that I come across other designers

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that I respect other illustrators that I
respect just to see the work that they

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produce under similar circumstances or
maybe something I’ve never touched

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before

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just gets really inspiring you see a lot
with these design manuals that we have

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in the industry that just shows the
highlights the best work throughout the

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year they do different subsets of work
and it’s just great to look through

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those and just see what other people are
doing so how did you dream of becoming

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an artist in general come about it
started early on when i was in high

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school I knew that the Avenue no one to
take and even I didn’t quite know

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exactly what that was how it would turn
out i started to make plans to get there

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by choosing the school I went to just
having conversations with my art teacher

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