Skills
With a background in Motion Design, Brand Design, and Digital Design, Nicholas brings a full 360 perspective to creative leadership. 20 years of experience directing teams and working with major brands. Enjoys explaining artistic, technical, or scientific concepts, adept public speaker and teacher. Quick to acquire new skills. Reads too much. Currently creating several Web3 generative art projects with a combination of Maya, Python, Blender, AI, and After Effects.
Brand Expression
Creative Direction
Experience Design
Brand Guidelines
Identity Systems
Logo design
Logo Animation
Motion Design
Motion Guidelines
Brand Strategy
Generative Design
Dynamic Animation
Design Lead, IFT (Logos ecosystem)
Design Lead and Creative Director for Logos ecosystem. Lead the multidisciplinary creative team responsible for brand, motion, digital, events, print, UX, 3D and AI in ~9 brand properties under the IFT umbrella, including Logos, Codex, Nomos, Waku, Nescience, Nimbus, and others. As a service unit within IFT, we developed brands for new projects, websites, explainer video, podcast properties, blog content, event material, AI created image libraries, social content, and much more.
Brand Expression
Creative Direction
Experience Design
Brand Guidelines
Identity Systems
Motion Design
Brand Strategy
Generative Design
Dynamic Animation
Associate Creative Director, R/GA
Designs brand systems. Directed or designed brand behaviors, expression, and user experience in digital brand for major international companies.
With experience in motion, 3D, film, branding, photography, print, scientific data visualization, and a whole spectrum of creative fields, draws ideas from a place beyond mediums or trends. Creatively domain independent. Performs in, and in fact prefers, client facing roles. Actively seeks out conversation with people who write code when they are part of the project workflow.
Nike
Samsung
Verizon
Johnson&Johnson
Converse
PepsiCo
Quaker
Western Digital
Planned Parenthood
Equinox
Oprah
Fritolay
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences
Telstra
Macquarie
Snap
Viacom
Virgin
Zurich Insurance Group
E*Trade
ESPN
Fossil Wearables
Janus
McCormick & Co
Mercedes-Benz
National Football League
Chief Creative, Silversmith&Gamer
Runs San Diego based design studio Silversmith&Gamer with wife and partner Mia Hyein Kim. Notable clients include Viacom, MTV International, Jenny Holzer, Everwise, Serotonin Culture Institute Korea, and Druglab 119 Netherlands.
Viacom
MTV International
Jenny Holzer
Everwise
Serotonin Culture Institute Korea
Druglab 119 Netherlands
Partner, Simply Build
Startup co-founder of Simply Build, creating the first professionally designed structure planning and building app for the Minecraft software ecosystem: Prototyper.