Danny Valdez

Danny Valdez

  • Senior Web Design+Dev
  • CRO+Strategy
  • Brand Development
  • Illustration

I'm a designer and developer who's spent 20 years bridging brand, product, and web for companies that care about craft as much as conversions. I live in Los Angeles with my wife and daughter, and consider myself lucky to spend my days hunched over my computer making cool, pretty internet stuff.

Danny
Valdez

  • Senior Web Design+Dev
  • CRO+Strategy
  • Brand Development
  • Illustration

I'm a designer and developer who's spent 20 years bridging brand, product, and web for companies that care about craft as much as conversions. I live in Los Angeles with my wife and daughter, and consider myself lucky to spend my days hunched over my computer making cool, pretty internet stuff.

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The Black Lodge, 2026 Goldmember, 2024 The Spy Who Shagged Me, 2024 International Man of Mystery, 2024 Austin Danger Powers, 2024 Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, 2023 Mortal Kombat 4, 2023 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, 2023 Mortal Kombat II, 2023 Mortal Kombat, 2022 Back in the '90s, 2022 Grass Land, 2020 Mound Ave., 2019 Dreamscape, 2009 Cecora, 2008 Sub-Con, 2008 Piedra del Sol, 2008 Eustace H. Christ, 2009 11.2005, 2007 Orange Empire, 2005 The Eye of God, 2003 Dark Knight, 2005 Milan to Minsk, 2006 Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, 2003 The Third of May, 2004 El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos, 2004 Super Mario Bros., 2004 2:05, 3/10/2005 Lilting Grace, 2004 Rose, 2004 The Puppeteer, 2003 Main Road Attack, 2005 Woman with a Parasol, 2004 Guernica, 2003 The Serpent and the Sword, 2002 Batman, 2006 The Death of Dorian, 2003 Gone with the Wind, 2008 Carnival Stud, 2005 Cunning Vision, 2004

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About

I grew up in a quiet, dusty Southern California town where the cows outnumbered the people. As a kid I spent a lot of time drawing Ghostbusters, trains, Ninja Turtles, Batman, and dinosaurs. My high school years were spent memorizing Austin Powers movies and getting my ass kicked at GoldenEye. I majored in Fine Art at UC Riverside, where I also became obsessed with Tool, churned out a bunch of obnoxiously convoluted pseudo-spiritual digital paintings, and took an interest in both comics and web design.

After school, I began full-time work as a graphic designer, and settled into a web design position a year later. That accidentally turned into a 17-year stint at the same company. I started out customizing templates for real estate agents and somehow ended up building platforms from scratch, reshaping brands from the inside out, and becoming the company's go-to one-person design department. When that chapter ended, I landed at a telehealth startup, where I've spent the last couple of years doing pretty much the same thing — but under a lot more pressure (and with a lot more spreadsheets).

I currently live in Los Angeles with my wife and daughter, working remotely from our small condo. In my spare time I drink boba, and stay hunched over in front of Photoshop while working on illustrations or comic projects — simultaneously ruining both my back and my eyes.

Illustrated portrait of Danny Valdez holding a boba drink
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Some random things about me

  • Favorite painting: This one.

  • Childhood dinosaur preference: Deinonychus.

  • Currently listening to: Probably some pretentiously long prog rock that old white guys listen to.

  • Celebrity look-alike: Seth Meyers

  • Favorite vehicle for boba: Passion Fruit Green Tea.

  • Number of published photographs: One. (I'm famous!) Take a look.

  • Comic book influences: Ware, Drnaso, Seth, Tomine, Thompson, Lemire, Brown, Mazzucchelli & more.

  • Very first web design project: An embarrassing late-90s GeoCities site showcasing my collection of stolen fast food trays. (The page is lost forever, but here's the logo!)

  • Most used emoji: 👍 (because I'm old)

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Illustrated portrait of Danny Valdez holding a boba drink