Company history
The Blumenthal Design Group (BDG) was founded in September of 2000 in Tucson, Arizona. Chief Idea Officer and owner Dan Blumenthal started the company to provide graphic design services to local businesses.
Today the company, which had built its business serving the local community across many different industries, now works with national and international clients.
Along the way, BDG added services usually considered only offered by advertising agencies and marketing firms: strategic planning, copywriting and print buying.
Dan's Story
Dan's not your typical graphic designer. Instead of art school, he went to the University of Connecticut and majored in accounting.
How he got from accounting to graphic design is a story.
Growing up in West Hartford, Connecticut, Dan graduated from UConn, class of '81, and remains a die-hard UConn Huskies basketball fan. In fact, he still relives the year when both the men's and women's teams were National Champs.
His first jobs out of school where in the accounting field.
At age 25, he got the entrepreneurial spirit and opened up a men's and ladies' clothing store in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, cleverly named Dan's Clothes Outlet.
Ten years later, computer technology grabbed his interest. He earned a graduate degree in Management Information Systems (MS/MIS) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY.
Upon graduation, he made his way to Tucson. Like so many Tucsonans, he had visited and fell in love with the desert.
Receiving a course scheduling book from Pima Community College in the mail, a class on Photoshop caught his eye and he decided to take it.
That was the first chance-happening that changed his career. The second was the reaction by his classmates to his school projects.
The assignment was to make a fantasy poster. Dan, an avid amateur pianist, put together a poster for his first piano recital at Crowder Hall on the campus of the University of Arizona.
Classmates soon gathered around his computer admiring the work. That, combined with the realization that he loved graphic design led to his "lightbulb" moment and current career.
By the way, his fantasy poster still hangs on his wall. Clients are always very impressed. Sometimes he tells them the truth. And sometimes he lets them think what they want.
