In Bloom

May 5, 2011 • 2:44 pm • POSTED BY stephen penning

It has been an exciting first quarter of the year at the agency. There has been a wave of new biz (press releases to come). To keep pace with all the opportunities coming our way we’ve made a bunch of new hires.

Timothy O’Donnell (no, not this one) was hired as Creative Director. Tim’s career includes five years spent in London at Vaughan Oliver’s v23 studio. Since moving back to the states, Tim has worked for MTV Networks, Razorfish, and New York Magazine. He’s consulted for clients such as HBO, Conde Nast, and Penguin Books, and most recently was a Design Director at Johnson & Johnson. Tim also authored the book ‘Sketchbook: Conceptual Drawings from the World’s Most Influential Designers’. Check it out here.

Hailing from the twin cities comes uno champion Chelsea Brink. Chelsea was a designer at branding agency FAME and worked on projects for a variety of clients including Time Warner Cable and Minnesota RollerGirls. Prior to FAME, Chelsea spent time at other Minneapolis shops including Periscope and Sussner Design, and was a letterpress apprentice at Blinc Publishing. Chelsea has joint custody of 2 letterpresses as well as an autographed Donovan McNabb jersey that she won in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City – unfortunately they all still reside in Minnesota.

Konstantinos Psimaris aka shortrib aka Coast was born in Athens but raised right here in the City of Brotherly Love. Konstantinos joins our crew as a ‘designer’ but also functions as an interactive swiss army knife. He brings with him the chops he honed working on brands like LL Bean, Hyatt and the NFL.

Newly minted Notre Dame graduate Bobby McKenna also joined the agency as a designer. Bobby won best in Show at the 2010 ND Deign Show and before joining the agency was working on various projects with Supernice, a British design agency. He also recently participated in the 50 and 50 project creating an illustration for his state of Virgina. Bobby has a collection of over 100 Cal Ripken baseball cards and will trade you one for tips on where to get the best deals on boating shoes.

Rounding out the spring additions is designer Chris Muccioli. Chris is finishing up his senior year at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has been interning at Post Typography as well as working at the Center for Design Practice at MICA. Chris also attended a Project M design blitz at PieLab in Alabama and has continued to head south with his band Secret Mountains. Chris is a self-admitted terrible shopper. Hopefully his judgement will change apartment hunting.