Hello!
My name is Laura D'Andrea and I am a Minneapolis-based creative leader of people, projects, and process.
If you work with me, you can expect creativity, authenticity and merit. I apply gestalt design theory, the Golden Ratio and the Rule of Thirds to my work. I am also big believer in cause and effect: If This Then That.
As a student at DeLaSalle High School on Nicollet Island in Minneapolis, I had front-row access to the mighty Mississippi and fringe culture. I have always been interested in outsider / deviant art as evidenced in my childhood work.
I am a self-proclaimed freak.
As a semi-adult in the year 1990, I got a job at Kinko's Copy Centers which schooled me in extreme customer / client service, coupled with a penchant for commercial art.
I realized there was a way to 'make art' and also make an incredible amount of cheese (read: money). I immersed myself in all things Mac and found myself as the editorial art director for Pulse of the Twin Cities, a free, local political and A&E rag with a weekly print circulation of 23,000.
In October 2000, I got hired as a Rock 'n' Roll Production Artist (actual job title) at The Musicland Group. I cut my corporate teeth at this culturally open company and was promoted to Art Director a couple of months before we were acquired by Best Buy Co., Inc.
I worked my way through and up Best Buy Advertising and Creative Marketing departments, doing my best to sell enormous amounts of plastic and rare metal devices while influencing the corporate culture, finally hitting the glass ceiling in October 2022 (two weeks shy of my 22 year anniversary) when I was laid off due to a reorg.
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I turned to the Vedic sciences for comfort.
I became an Ayurvedic Health Counselor through the Minnesota Institute of Ayurveda as well as an RYT-200 (Registered Yoga Teacher).
Ayurveda and Yoga are sister sciences.
Oh, by the way, I like bagpipe music!
And, I'm a believer in the invisible.
I am open to new ideas.
I like to party.
I like to draw.
