Share your memories of Don

2/3/2017

The family is still working out details for a memorial so that everyone who wants to participate can. Look here for details to come. Until then, please share your thoughts, photos, paintings that you own – anything you would like to share about Don Trousdell and your friendship with him.

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Tod Trousdell

2/4/2017 07:50:08 pm

Creatives throughout the city should take a moment this morning to say a prayer for the man who breathed life into our profession when Atlanta was a young advertising town. Don Trousdell, the quintessential designer, mentor and leader died this morning in St. Augustine just weeks shy of his 80th birthday. For anyone in the know, Don was the guy who put Atlanta's design scene on the map in the early 70's.

Anyone who makes a buck off of being creative for a living owes Don a debt of gratitude for his talent, perseverance and time on the part of creativity. A force of nature, Don won award after national award when he opened the wildly successful Maybe-Trousdell before going on to be the creative director at McDonald & Little. Opening his own shop before retiring, Don went on to a career as a world renowned painter while living in Bermuda. Most of all, Don was a guy who always had time for others. A guy who knew concept was king, and that anyone with an idea had a place at the table. Generations of All-Stars will tell you there was never a better creative, and that there might never be. Rest In

Peace Don, you were one of a kind.

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