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Jan 2017
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182: Sugar Puppy (feat. Jenny Johannesso...

Brian Lovin, Marshall Bock
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Today we caught up with Jenny Johannesson, a designer at Ueno, previously at Fantasy and DDB, who currently lives in San Francisco by way of Sweden. We dig into Jenny's background, design confidence, green cards and visas, that sweet agency life, advice for young designers, and so much more.

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