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Don Toursdell

Don was educated at Music and Art High School and the Pratt Institute of Design in Brooklyn, where he majored in graphic design. For 40 years he was a noted designer, winning over 500 national and international awards, including 45 awards from CA Magazine  and four New York Art Director's gold medals. Herb Lubalin mentioned Don Trousdell in the lead article in Print¹s 40th Anniversary magazine, The Graphic Revolution in America² as one of the leading designers in the American graphic revolution.

He started his design career in Cleveland heading up the Pitt Group, was asked to judge ShowSouth in Atlanta; eventually moved to Atlanta and started Maybe Trousdell, One-up Studios and Trousdell Design. He has designed projects  for major clients such as Coca-Cola, IBM, Marriott, Kimberly-Clark Fine Papers, the U.S. Army, Busch Gardens, Biltmore Estate, CNN , Turner Broadcasting, Turner Programming, Headline News , The Atlanta Olympics, and the Atlanta Braves to name a few.

Step By Step, CA (Communications Arts), Art Direction Magazine, and Print Magazine have featured Don in several articles. He has also been invited to judge numerous national shows, and has guest lectured at over 25 design schools and graphic design societies. He has taught the Master's Program and guest lectured at Syracuse University, been a Hallmark Grant visiting instructor at Kansas University, and Board Member and adjunct instructor at the Atlanta College of Art.

After living on the island of Bermuda for 9 years, Don now resides in St. Augustine exhibits his endless creativity as a fine artist.

He has had 24 one-man shows and has participated in 6 group shows. These shows have been located in Bermuda, Atlanta, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Most of Don¹s one-man shows are themed and they usually consist of no less than 10 and up to 40 original paintings per show. Approximately 540 out of 600 original Trousdell paintings have been purchased by individuals and corporations in Canada, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Great Britain, Paris, and the United States.

A creative "lull" is something Don has never experienced and creativity is something Don has never lacked. In fact, to watch him day-to-day is to observe his constant effort to keep up with his creative exuberance.