Don Widmer: Owner / Designer in San Diego, CA
Don Widmer
Owner / Designer
San Diego | United States
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All things creative
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Widmer Designs
Owner / Designer | 01/1995 - Current
• Currently designing protective clothing and gloves, for the Baseball, Football, MX, Golf and Paintball
industry, including Gear bags, Casual Apparel, Tees and Accessories.
• Clients include Under Armour, Callaway, Taylor Made, Top Flite, WDP - Angel, Maui and Sons. Squadra,
Pirana Z Racing and Stupid Fast Racing.
• Recent accomplishments include Ice-T’s new rap album cover for Body Count.
Fetch for Pets
Senior Designer | 01/2022 - 07/2022
Senior Product designer for pet-centric Licensed Products. Soft goods design, Packaging design, End-to-End product development. Product/Project Management, including collaborative brainstorming, product reviews and team building.
Licenses include: Star Wars, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Pixar, Scooby-Doo, DC, Marvel, Minions, Looney Tunes, Dr. Seuss, Peanuts, Friends, etc.
Infantino
Principal Designer | 06/2018 - 03/2021
Principal Designer / Senior Product Designer - https://infantino.com/
Principal Designer - Tasked with creating innovative Electronic toys and Gear for 0 to 48 month olds. In-house lines include: Go Gaga, Mainline and the new flagship line of toys, Truly Dear.
Conceptual and Industrial Design. Product Development from Ideation to Packaging.
Mentor to PD staff and Creative Services. Keyshot, Adobe CS/CC, Mac/PC
Seven20 / Underground Toys USA
Creative Director | 04/2016 - 05/2018
Creative Director and Principal Designer - Brought on board in April 2016 to create and implement an entirely new in-house Product Development department for all Plush and Homewares, including building and maintaining project tracking software (TeamWork). Responsible for on-boarding all product designers, graphic designers and project management. Charged with delivering a fully functional PD department in less than 6 months. Principal plush designer for Licensed plush brands of SuperBITZ™, Heroez™, Heroez Clipz™ and Mega Heroez™ for Star Wars, DC and Harry Potter.
Instrumental in defining and implementation of “Pinache®” Homewares line of licensed product for Star Wars, Marvel, DC and Harry Potter, Doctor Who and Hello Kitty. Maintain open and creative liaisons with all active Licensors.
Savi Customs
Art Director | 09/2012 - 11/2015
• 100% Made in USA sublimated apparel manufacturer, served as an Art Director and Principal Designer of an ever-expanding art department; increased workflow 30% to 45% annually.
• Customers include NHRA, Don Schumacher Racing, John Force Racing, Mizuno, Lego, Budweiser, Audi, Thor MX, and Stupid Fast Racing.
• Ensure the highest quality product is achieved each and every time, whether its 1 piece or 1,000, utilizing , through rigorous quality control and an art and print department that consistently brings home top
industry awards.
• Focused research implemented creative and persuasive techniques tailored to client’s specific needs.
Squadra Inc.
Art Director | 06/2006 - 07/2010
• Served as a Senior Designer for all custom sublimated cycling, triathlon and athletic apparel.
• Customers included K Swiss, Callaway, Zoot, Nike, Swobo, USAT, Challenged Athlete Foundation and Electra Bikes. Created dramatic and original designs for high profile companies that shaped and defined their market place for lasting equity to their consumers; increased workflow 12% to 14% annually.
K2 Licensed Product
VP Product Development & Design | 03/2004 - 05/2006
• Served as the Design Director for all aspects of new product development and designing.
• Licensed work included Disney, Nickelodeon, Scooby-Doo, DC Comics (Superman, Justice League, & Batman), Universal Studios, Hershey, M&M’s, Warner Brothers, NFL, MLB, Eddie Bauer, Nextel, Motorola, Coors, Coca-Cola and NASCAR.
• Created K2’s first cross platform, in-house, design studio to support our other K2 family of companies, i.e. JT USA, Adio, Stearns, and Rawlings.
JT USA / Brass Eagle
Art Director | 01/1998 - 03/2004
• Designer and Director of all creative functions for JT USA, Brass Eagle, Viewloader and Paintball products.
• Created all in-house brand advertising, catalog and websites; personally designed all JT, VL, BE soft good products, i.e. gloves, pants, jerseys, gear bags, shoes, casual wear, packaging and in-store POPs; increased the bottom line from $7m to $21m in three years.
No Fear Inc.
Art Director | 01/1994 - 10/1997
• Director and Senior designer for all casual T’s and textile designs; created the in-house design department.
• Expanded their forward thinking “attitude” tees that made "No Fear" a household name.
• Increased the T-shirt revenue from $10m to $90m in four years.
Education history
Grossmont College
Associates
Platt College
Bachelors
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