Updated 7/24

DAVE DAVIS GALLERY

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​MY STORY

Although professionally I'm an advertising designer for the hotel industry, I've been illustrating and painting since the 4th grade.  My fine arts skills and craftsmanship has been slowly developed over time – much like that of a smoker trying to quit ... starting and stopping...yet always having the urge throughout the years.  I've never lost interest, I just got distracted  –  like a dog seeing a squirrel out of the corner of its eye.

I've worked for the past 35 years running a small ad agency Hotel Marketing Group - focusing on hotels, restaurants and golf courses creating marketing tools, websites and graphic arts from my offices in San Diego, California. I attended Utah State University and following 4 years in the Navy, I graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in marketing communications and fine arts. Over the past four decades, I've achieved professional experience in marketing, public relations and advertising in the hospitality industry, starting my career with Crest Advertising and division of then Atlas Hotels, Inc in San Diego.

I spent a great 17 years with Atlas Hotels as Director of Advertising, learning and developing an expertise in promoting a variety of market segments including, convention, trade show, leisure packaging and individual corporate travel, tour group, theme restaurants and health facilities. Those were good years and I got a chance to paint a lot in oils during the period of time. In 1986 I founded Davis Design & Communications, specializing in the hotel industry, I was fortunate enough to have worked with hundreds of hotel properties both domestically and internationally in a marketing and advertising management capacity creating thousands of ads, collateral pieces and marketing tools. Over the past 35 years my business landscape has morphed from Davis Design & Communications through mergers and expansions into Davis McDowell, Inc. in 1994 and then again in 2000 to (dba) Hotel Marketing Group.