California native, Mr. Hennings spent his youth playing basketball and drawing, to the exclusion of almost everything else—expect Seinfeld, which he never missed. Hoops and doodling in his sketchbook were everything until he went off to college, where he studied Advertising and English Literature, thinking one day he’d be a copywriter. From there, he traveled to Spain where he studied Spanish, enjoyed boxed wine mixed with Coke and ran from charging 1,000-pound bulls. After he returned stateside, and following a stint of odd jobs, which included Public Defender Secretary and Well Drilling Gopher, he started a magazine called 562 in the great LBC. He wrote and designed and got paid with bar credit (not his best business decision). While widely read, the magazine failed, and with bills to pay, he got a 9-to-5 designing lowly classified ads for a publishing company in deep Orange County. He moved up to editorial design and honed his art director chops. Later, he moved into marketing for the company and fell deeply in love with brand design.
In 2015, he left the sadly crumbling world of publishing and entered into tech at Belkin. He worked as a senior designer on all the Belkin brands, taking on the lead-creative role for Wemo and Linksys. In 2021, Linksys parted ways with Belkin. He followed, joining as Art Director. He built an in-house creative department, recruiting a rag-tag group of squirrelly and talented artists and designers to help with the launch of the Linksys rebrand. The newly formed team rolled up their collective sleeves and got busy, cranking out the website, campaigns, collateral, the nitty-gritty, day-to-day stuff … yada, yada, yada.
Mr. Hennings is a hard-working creative whose checkered past—er, experience—offers a unique perspective. He’s a team-focused leader who can handle the rock and likes to win. He also likes basketball analogies.
He holes up in a garage he calls his design studio in the sleepy suburban sprawl of Lakewood, CA. He lives with his beautiful wife, two daughters who make him laugh constantly, and one barky Chihuahua.