ABOUT
Hello, I’m Dan Meza. Welcome to my website. I am a California native, born in San Diego, spent a few years in Lake Tahoe, and I now live in Marin County with my wife Lynn, and my son Danny.
As a kid, I was captivated by all sorts of visual design from photography and advertising in Life Magazine to hippie posters and cartoons like Spy vs Spy. I spent hours drawing my favorite characters or doodling whatever popped into my head.
Years later, I refined my skills at Grossmont College but was bitten by the wanderlust bug that led me to the high country of Lake Tahoe where I was astonished by the rugged beauty of the Sierras. Since then, I have logged countless miles on countless trails.
As I worked odd jobs like room service waiter in a casino or swinging a hammer on a construction crew, I never lost my interest in visual arts. I enrolled in art classes at LTCC (Lake Tahoe Community College), including a class called Advertising Design. It was there that I realized that it was possible to link my interest in visual design to a paycheck.
Upon returning to San Diego, my timing was good and I continued to study photography, typography and graphic design with a new contraption called the Macintosh computer. I quickly began working in the “creative” field on a crew making large 3-dimentional signs. Then, it was on to publishing where I was lucky enough to learn first-hand about printing.
The range of my experience grew as I began working directly with clients, as well as photographers, copywriters, printers and marketing directors. The result is a design philosophy that I sum up in two words clarity and restraint. With today’s technology, designers can do just about anything. But, just because you can, does not mean that you should.
Now, decades later, I still have a missionary zeal for visual design and I am as excited about the future as I was when I doodled Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine.
Thanks for visiting,
D—