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Specialty


Creative Direction

 

Experiential design solutions that resonate emotional connections with the audience.


Experiential Design & Marketing

 

Multi-sensory and holistic experiences for brands ( permanent & temporary installations / activations / scalable campaigns bridging real life and virtual environments ) within retail spaces , headquarters, events , festivals , public spaces , trade shows , exhibitions , etc.


Design

 

Ideas to reality. Fusing architectural design, technology and multimedia art to craft engaging and authentic ways to tell stories for daring clients.


New Media Art

 

Exploring technology as a creative tool / human connections to each other and the environment around them / experiential poetry celebrating all things magical & metaphysical

 
 

Professional

 

We Are Matik

Co-Founder / Chief Creative Director

2011-Now


Studio Banana

Industrial Designer

2010-2011


Walt Disney

Freelance Designer

2009


Studio Gaia

Design Intern

2008


 

Teaching

 

Art Center College of Design

Professor

2014 - 2016


 

Speaking Engagement


Mindshare LA

Featured Speaker: “UNLOCK YOUR CHILD-LIKE CREATIVITY”

2014


Design is Blank

INTERVIEW: WE ARE MATIK

2013


 

Press


The Creators Project : Intel & Vice

 

“Smilebot”

 

2013


PSFK (Design / Advertising /Digital)

 

“Smilebot“

 

2013


The Design & Design Book Vol. 2

 

“Milkscape”

 

2012


GOOD Magazine: good.is

 

“Robot Box”

 

2011


Computer Arts

 

“Dream Tweet”

 

2011


Icon: Architecture Design Culture

 

“Quiet Table”

 

2010


Frame: The Great Indoors

 

“Milkscape”

 

2009


 

Awards

 

Communicator Awards: Interactive Multimedia

 

Sonos CyFi Lab

 

2015


Horizon Awards: Gold Winner

 

Sonos CyFi Lab

 

2015


Davey Awards Interactive: Multimedia Gold Winners

 

Samsung Galaxy Studio

 

2015


W3 Awards, Environmental / Experiential Gold Winner

 

Sonos CyFi Lab

 

2014


Communicator Awards: Interactive Media Award Of Excellence

 

Interactive Pods

 

2014


Davey Awards: Interactive Multimedia Best In Show

 

Interactive Pods

 

2013