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Man of the South. Designer of Things. Part Analog. Part Digital.

Deviled Egg Connoisseur. Former Tilt-A-Whirl Operator.

Man of the South. Designer of Things.

Part Analog. Part Digital. Deviled Egg Connoisseur.

Former Tilt-A-Whirl Operator.

noteAugust 17, 2026

Field notes from a load-in

Four a.m. dock call. Coffee that tastes like a parking lot. Everybody knows their job and nobody says much. Best two hours of the week.

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I'm D. Jamison Cantrell. I'm a designer, builder, and storyteller. I make things that are temporary, and a few that stick.

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SQUAREONE — experiential design and production
XpoMonkey — VIP subscription design for trade shows
Morgan Hill Media — a media studio

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I'm a designer and builder in Thomasville, Georgia. After twenty-five years in trade shows and experiential design, I'm still a student of the craft — drawing from theater, architecture, motion, print, and the hundreds of foremen and fabricators who taught me how things actually get built.

Born in Marietta, Georgia in 1975. I studied theatrical design before discovering that trade shows were essentially the same problem on a tighter timeline.

Today I run SQUAREONE and XpoMonkey, and co-founded Morgan Hill Media with my wife Elizabeth Cantrell.

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jamie@djamison.com