Dawn (Teitelbaum) Baillie, along with partners Rick Lynch and her husband Clive Baillie, founded BLT & Associates in 1992. She currently serves as Vice President / Chief Financial Officer and as a Creative Director and Designer. She leads “D-Pod,” a group of 12 talented designers and artists dedicated to solving myriad creative challenges.
Prior to BLT, Dawn was an Art Director at Dazu Advertising.
Dawn began her career due to the good fortune of meeting Tony Seiniger, who hired her at Seiniger Advertising despite her punk rock trappings and bundles of bizarre paintings of her grandmother. She spent three years at “Seiniger U” learning from the best in the business. She is eternally grateful to Tony for taking a chance on her right after her graduation from Otis/Parsons in 1985, where she earned a BFA in Communication Design and Illustration.
Dawn is also the founder of BLT Helps, a nonprofit agency created to help other charities with their marketing and design needs. There she developed an app for teaching meditation, the funds from which aid that nonprofit work.
Dawn has mentored and worked alongside some of the most gifted artists the business has known, and has collaborated on hundreds of campaigns. Her project collaborations extend beyond coworkers to exceptional clients with insight, courage, and trust.
She was greatly influenced by J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Richard Amsel, Drew Struzan, Mary Ellen Mark, Albert Watson, and of course, Mr. Saul Bass, with whom she tearfully shook hands at the HR Key Art Awards in 1992. She is fully aware that she still has a long way to go.
Dawn has been to India numerous times, is a dedicated yogi, and a believer in helping others. Her most cherished accomplishment is her family. She has been married to Clive for 18 years and they have two beloved and talented daughters.
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