25 x 25
By Improper Staff | Photo Credit: AFH Photography Teens | Aug. 5, 2016
Jonathan Tejeda
“Seeing something you created in large scale, in public, is huge,” says graphic designer Jonathan Tejeda. At age 18, he’s already seen his work cover outsized canvases, from a Boston Properties commission at 100 Federal St., which had him adorning a garage entrance with a 1935 Buick Y-Job’s curvy contours, to a massive mural for Gillette’s HQ that features images of the Citgo sign and other local landmarks. Tejeda tackled such projects as an apprentice at a local nonprofit that celebrated its own 25th anniversary this year, Artists for Humanity, which provides mentoring and paid employment to under-resourced teens. It’s helped Tejeda fill his portfolio with work for other big-name clients, including Converse, the MBTA, Barnes & Noble and several universities; right now, he’s working on T-shirt designs for Yale—and, he says, looking forward to starting college himself this fall at MassArt, where he hopes to dive into photography and filmmaking as well as design. “I’m just really excited to learn a whole bunch of new art forms.”
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