Joseph Nother
Joseph Nother
Principal & Creative Director, Founder | jnother@designsensory.com
As founder and creative director for Designsensory, Joseph oversees teams that deliver beautiful, conceptual and compelling visual and interactive design to select organizations including the State of Tennessee, First Tennessee Bank, Warner Bros., Varsity Athletics, PetSafe, Outward Bound USA, and DenTek Oral Care.
His design work has earned recognition from the AIGA Tenn Show, the American Advertising Federation, and the American Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and has been featured in Print Magazine Regional Annuals, STEP, Dynamic Graphics and Logo Lounge publications. His interactive design work is often featured in online showcase lists found on Smashing Magazine, Web Designer's Wall and Most Inspired. Of particular merit is his signature work on Tennessee Vacation. Hailed as arguably the best state tourism website, the Tennessee Vacation (tnvacation.com) family of sites have consistently set the bar for inspired online work. Recently, his work on Discover TN Trails & Byways was awarded a Webby Honoree.
He frequently speaks at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and lectures on Visual Communication and Visual Rhetoric. Joseph is an active member of AIGA, the professional association for design, Art Directors Club, and the American Marketing Association.
Joseph believes in the power of innovative, entrepreneurial thinking and is passionate in applying design thinking, process and principles to social and economic problems. To that end, he works to harness smart, disruptive design in support of local and global philanthropic change.
Born in Knoxville, TN, he moved with his family to Silicon Valley, where he spent most of his early childhood and teenage life. Upon his return to Knoxville, he continued to develop his talents and interests in entrepreneurship, marketing, and design and started his first business when he was 15 years old. Joseph holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Tennessee and is self-instructed in visual design for screen and print.
He currently serves on the board of AIGA Knoxville as President and was recently named a 2011 Finalist for the Knoxville Chamber's Pinnacle Young Entrepreneur Award.
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Posted: 05/16/2013
Design Week Panel: Design for Good
As part of AIGA's Design Week, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel of designers and nonprofit directors to discuss designing for good during an event luncheon. Our topics covered everything from design...
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Posted: 05/16/2013
Medal of Honor Photoshoot in Carson City
Lindsay Miller traveled to Nevada for work with the 2014 Medal of Honor Convention, art directing a photoshoot at the facility where the nation’s top military award is minted. Lindsay and a video production team...
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Posted: 04/23/2013
Recently, I had the honor and fortune to take a little jaunt to northeastern Tennessee to judge the Pinnacle Tourism Awards for NETTA, the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Alliance. The region, located at the foot of...
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Posted: 04/23/2013
Utilize: Still, Video and Motion
At Designsensory, we are always on the lookout for new ways to bring better service to our clients. We’re especially pleased to be able to enhance our capabilities with still photography, video and motion expertise.Our...
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Posted: 04/23/2013
The nice folks at Pest-Ops came to Designsensory to help locals rediscover a company that has been in Knoxville for 18 years. There’s nothing funny about pests, but Designsensory put some humor—and some shock factor—into...
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Posted: 04/23/2013
With an illustration of Alexander Hamilton, our design for CRS (Courthouse Retrieval Systems) Data for the National Association of Realtors’ event invitation was right on the money. While giving a nod to an illustration style...