TIMOTHY GOODMAN

Timothy Goodman is a designer, illustrator, muralist and author based in New York. Grandma calls him an artist. Timothy Goodman’s art and words have populated walls, buildings, packaging, cars, people, shoes, clothing, book jackets, magazine covers and galleries all over the world. His clients include Google, Samsung, Uniqlo, Target, MoMA, Airbnb, Netflix, The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Goodman has received awards from most major design & illustration publications. He’s the co-creator of several personal projects including the blog and book 40 Days of Dating (whose film rights were optioned to Warner Bros), 12 Kinds of Kindness, Build Kindness Not Walls, People of Craft, and Friends With Secrets.

Goodman is also the author of Sharpie Art Workshop. Recently, he launched a global collection of clothing with Uniqlo, and products with West Elm. He teaches at SVA in NYC and talks about his feelings on Instagram.

Timothy Goodman is constantly trying to find meaning in his work. But what defines meaning? He believes the greatest joy as a designer and an artist is the ability to connect to another human emotionally through his work and words. Whether it’s a large-scale public mural on the streets of NYC, a marker scrawling on a Uniqlo t-shirt, a web- based social experiment that documents his life, or writing personal stories on Instagram, he wants to start dialogues about difficult topics such as love, heartbreak, politics, race, therapy and mental health. Join Timothy as he talks about where he’s been, where he’s at, and how he’s trying to redefine what it means to work in this industry.

I chose Timothy Goodman as one of my Design Heroes because I love his style of bright colors and big murals and his fun simple line works. Also with his go too style of pictographs of places or his bubble lettering. He reminds me of an artist Mr Doodle.