Melinda Johnson

Melinda Johnson creative director

COO | Creative Director


What’s your dream job?
One that provides great pride in my work, challenges my creativity, pays amply, and allows for a sufficient live/work balance.

Which job would you not want to have?
middle school cafeteria lunch lady

If you could eat dinner with four people, who would it be?
Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Ingrid Michaelson, Christopher Walken,

What would you serve?
prime rib with raw horseradish and aus jus with onion rings and a 5 bottles of red wine.

If you could travel anywhere, where would it be?
a Greek island sailboating adventure, sans the sea sickness

What do you love?
I really love citrus. I’m pretty sure I’ll never die of scurvy.

When you’re not working what are you doing?
driving, eating, or sleeping

What was your first job?
Video Store employee on nights and weekends during high school

Role model?
Mr. Wimmer, my college art teacher. He teaches and inspires artistic thought. He is an elder man of mediocre means, yet still manages to have a cottage in london, a welcoming home in wisconsin, and, most importantly, finds the time to enjoy it all with good conversation over a glass of good red wine and handmade hors d’ourves.

What’s the best advice you ever got?
well, this is a quote that is always great advice for me:
"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, Leave the house before you find something worth staying in for." 
-Banksy (graffiti artist)