WHITNEY WADDELL DESIGNS

A note from Whitney:

 

My entire life I've known nothing other than being an artist with an unlimited supply of creative ideas. For the last seventeen years, I made a successful career being creative. I climbed the creative ladder starting as a photography assistant, shifting paths to design, then doing the shimmy upward to Senior Designer to Design Manager to Art Director to Creative Director. I genuinely loved what I did, but the success was not without pretty intense hardships and it was those hardships that brought me to where I am today. Beginning in the coldest days of early 2024, I started to feel the unusual sensation of my endless creativity not being available to me as easily as it had been years prior. My endless creativity was my existence in life, so it was quite jarring when I realized the love I had for the work I had done for so many years...was gone. The flame had burnt out and the deep pain of my creativity leaving me has been a hard pill to swallow. However, laying face down in a debilitating creative block was not an option, so I decided to pivot and try something new.

 

I now work in creative production within a museum setting. Production was always a massive part of my job responsibilities, so it's not unfamiliar, but it can be challenging and I LOVE IT.  I also get to work alongside creatives, but I'm not one of them.

 

I do genuinely hope my creativity comes back, but for the time being...I'm now a retired creative director. Thanks for your support all the years and I look forward to many more years to come!

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-W

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