With no formal training, this Jacksonville artist creates designs for huge companies like Patagonia, The North Face

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Armed with just an iPad, no formal art degree or training, and a health condition that makes it difficult for him to drive, Sandro Young hustled and self-taught his way into the highly competitive world of graphic design.

WATCH LIVE: NOAA releases 2024 Atlantic hurricane season outlookJacksonville artist Sandro Young, also known as"Dusty Nomad" on Instagram, has worked with some of the biggest brands in the apparel industry, including Patagonia, The North Face, Crocs and Lululemon.Sure, as a kid growing up in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Young messed around with art, but he fell away from drawing before he moved to Jacksonville at 18 years old.

Young has gone from trying to get his T-shirts into local coffee shops to, in just the last three years, creating designs for some of the biggest clothing and outdoor companies in the world, including Patagonia, The North Face, Crocs, Marmot, Roark and Lululemon — on top ofBut it certainly wasn’t a traditional — or easy — path to where he is now.

Young jokingly says his biggest artistic inspirations are Snoopy and SpongeBob, and that comes through in his simple, cartoonish style. Snoopy artist Charles Schultz is from Minnesota and he saw Snoopy everywhere in his hometown, and SpongeBob SquarePants also made its mark early on. “And I’m like, ‘Man, even if you just put that on a hat, somebody will probably wear that.’ And from that moment on, I’m just like, I’m gonna figure this out,” he said.

 

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