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Ana Carina Gallo
Creative Director
Ana has almost fifteen years of design and art direction experience under her belt working with global and domestic brands like Coca Cola, sbe, Nationwide,... Ikea, Sears, and Bud Light. As a former developer, she understands the importance of function in every detail of design. Her top influences are Scandinavian/Dutch design, vagabonding, paper engineering, minimalism, Visionaire, Kidrobot, and Wes Anderson.
Brandon R Johnson
Creative Director
Brandon is a Digital Designer that has always had a passion for technology. He thrives on taking raw ideas and turning them into business solutions. Brandon... has nearly 13 years of experience in interactive design. From marketing departments to top agencies, he has developed a broad skill set that is sure to suit any client.
Tanya Junell
Creative Director
Tanya is a human-centered director of product management with over 12 years of product strategy, team management, and UX leadership experience. From process... improvement to design sprint facilitation, she will help take a product team to the next level of efficiency, empowerment, and efficacy.
Joshua Berman
Creative Director
Joshua is an art director and designer specializing in brand development, creative strategy, and naming. He strives to incorporate creative choice into a pr...oblem-solving decision and delivers clean, on-brand results with remarkable efficiency and wit. His clients include RCI, Georgetown University, and MPRM.
Austin Li
Creative Director
Austin has worked in the digital design industry for the last five years, creating digital products and promotional material for local and global clients su...ch as Mars, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Formica. He currently works as the Chief Creative Officer for Curu, and in the past has provided creative support to Ford Motor Company. Austin brings a passionate attitude and a willingness to learn to every project he works on.
Casey Weeks
Creative Director
Casey is a software UX/UI and marketing website interaction designer with 10 years of professional experience and 20 years of overall experience. He is skil...led in creating productive, user-friendly interfaces for complex back-end data structures as well as front-end customer-facing interfaces and websites. He's adept in gathering qualitative feedback through ethnographic interview methodologies to build user-centric mental models.
Christopher Barr
Creative Director
Christopher is a highly creative and multi-talented product designer with 8+ years of experience in web and mobile application design. He is instrumental in... increasing traffic by teaming up with stakeholders to create authentic products while having fun doing it.
Christina Barsan
Creative Director
Christina is a digital designer and creative director with over 15 years of experience as a visual thinker, problem solver, manager, collaborator, and lover... of technology. She constantly seeks to help her clients create the ideal brand for their business that’s aligned with their big vision.
Ena Bacanovic
Creative Director
Specializing in simple, meaningful, and user-driven experiences for screen and print, Ena is a detail-oriented designer with several years of experience wor...king with teams and companies of all sizes—Elevate Labs, Five, PowerToFly, Fiktiv—across diverse platforms and disciplines. Some of her notable clients include Magnolia, Marco Polo, Choice Hotels, Stephen Hawking, TechCrunch, among others. She’s also the founder of the Design Blog and ONNO.
Fernando Lahoz
Creative Director
Fernando is a New York-based interactive art director with more than nine years of experience working for major brands in the U.S. as well as for global adv...ertising agencies. He combines his knowledge as an art director in the fashion and luxury industries with current tech and web design trends. He's helped multiple brands from the ground-up building their identity and full online presence.
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