My name is ANDY MANOUSHAGIAN. I'm a Graphic Designer, based in the Los Angeles South Bay. My specialization includes building logos and identities.
THINGS I LIKE, an ongoing list: My family; our incredible lazy pitbull, Libby; Saul Bass; Hoarding fonts; Baseball (Dodgers & Rangers); Burritos; Kasper Ledet; The Western Truck Exchange logo; 90s Alternative Rock; 70s Jazz/Funk; Googie Architecture; Anthony Bourdain; 2000s Indie Rock; Texas; Olaffur Eliasson; New Mexico; Alt Hip Hop; Liminal spaces; Alan Fletcher; The West Wing; Vox Amplifiers; MusicMan guitars; The Daily Show + The Colbert Report; Art of the Title; 80s action movies; McSweeney's; Invisible Creature; My Nike Dunks; Alfred Hitchcock; Frightened Rabbit; 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics visual identity designed by Pedro Ramirez Vazquez & Lance Wyman; A. Qunicy Jones; Shawn Scott Studio; Vertigo (the movie); Otl Aicher; Friday Night Lights; Run the Jewels; North by Northwest; Talking about baseball bats; Die Hard 1, 2, 3; Rambo: First Blood; Brutalism; Dave Brubeck; Hundertwasser; The self-awareness of Rob Harvilla; Contino; LAND Design Studio; Nada Surf; Reid Miles; Sitting on a big porch in mountainous woods; Earl Grey Tea; Yacht Rock; Milton Glaser; Rocky 4 as a solution to The Cold War; Sometimes just doing absolutely nothing; Wilco; Studio Neat; Bruce Springsteen; Palm Springs Modernism; The Athletic; Aaron Draplin; Star Trek over Star Wars; Beastie Boys; The Big Lebowski; The production art for The Incredibles 1 and 2; This Will Destroy You; Speed (the movie); the song "Joybringer" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band; Tommy Boy; Finding that super-elusive album that contains no songs you have to skip (i.e. Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"); Massimo Vignelli; The Lord of the Rings; Beatriz Lozano; Helms Workshop; My RedWing boots; The California Central Coast; A good baseball cap; The Superlunar newsletter (fka AisleOne Digest)
THINGS I DON'T LIKE, an ongoing list: I'm sure I'll think of something...
THINGS I USE: Moleskin; Studio Neat Mark Two; Apple Macbook Pro; Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop + Lightroom + InDesign + After Effects; Canon 80D (usually with a 24mm prime)
SCHOOLS I ATTENDED: Texas A&M University (B.E.D., Visual Studies); Otis College of Art & Design (MFA, Public Practice)