PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE & RELENTLESS IMAGINATION
EVERYTHING'S FINE AT SCHONBERG DESIGN
With a B.A. in Graphic Design and minor in Advertising from Flagler College in 1996 and over 15 years embedded in the headquarters of major corporate marketing departments and agencies, Schonberg Design has been in business since January 2017. There is an emphasis on the principles of art, balanced with a vast experience as a professional. In my spare time, I ferociously study and create art. As for me, it's all visual communication, be it my emotions on canvas or your value proposition on a billboard.
ABOUT DAN SCHONBERG
SD VOYAGER INTERVIEW
Today we’d like to introduce you to Dan Schonberg. Dan, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
When I was a child, I was kind of a kid who got in trouble for drawing during class. My senior year in high school, I took a commercial art class and learned what graphic design was. The teacher saw how interested I was in that (and my art class) and gave me a pass to get out of math class to work on a 'big project.' Eventually the math teacher called us out on this and I had to return, but I always knew why my art teacher did that: to stoke the interest of an otherwise lost high school student.
THE ARTIST
ART CONVOS ARTICLE
He Brings His Sketchbook to Shows—And Walks Away with Magic on the Page. Dan Schonberg doesn’t need a spotlight. His art speaks from the back of the room—real, raw, and entirely his own. Some people go to shows to be seen. Some go to drink. Some go to dance or meet up with friends. Dan Schonberg goes to draw. He’s not trying to get discovered or build a brand. He’s not selling prints or fishing for commissions. He just brings a sketchbook, finds a corner, and quietly captures the band as they play. “I’ve had jobs where I worked for other people. I’ve done the whole thing,” he told me, flipping through pages of his well-worn sketchbooks. “Now, this—drawing—this is mine.”
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Dan’s a San Clemente-based illustrator and graphic designer who’s been quietly creating art on his own terms for years. If you’re a local, you’ve probably seen him at a bar or music venue, head down, pencil moving, sketching the scene with a kind of focused calm. His art is fast, expressive, and real. Not about perfection—about energy. You feel it before you analyze it. He doesn’t try to make it flawless. He tries to make it honest.
And he doesn’t do it for anyone but himself.
