L.A. Creative Community Loses a Friend

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LOS ANGELES Award-winning art director Shawn David Brown, 34, passed away Sept. 28 in Virginia Beach, Va., due to complications from a blood infection and pneumonia. A Baja surfing accident had left him paralyzed since late November 2003.

Brown, who grew up in Virginia Beach and held degrees from Virginia’s Hampden-Sydney College and the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, had worked in the creative department at Marina del Rey, Calif., independent Ground Zero Advertising from January 2000 until his accident last year.

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