Founder & creative director at Punk Works Future CardsFuture Works Previously, Head of Brand Design at Google, Global Creative Director at Pinterest & Principal at DesignStudio.
An experimental Small Language Model (SML) I'm playing with to understand the (much) bigger ones.
At Pinterest I’ve helped build the brand that gives the platform credibility and consistency and lead the team building tools to help key audiences understand and adore us.
Founder @ Cure Studio Co-Founder @ HiggonsonHurst Founder @ The Type Foundry
We built HigginsonHurst, an illustration agency representing Chrissie Abbot / Daisy Fletcher / Damien Frost / Esra Røise / Han Lee / Mike Ballard / Paul Bommer
We had fun putting on exhibitions & helping build culture.
And we launched The Type Foundry, which represented (and designed) a whole number of display typefaces that we used in our designs.
2012 — 2014
Head of Digital @ Figtree Digital Director @ Prophet Design Director @ Wednesday
Released two EPs described as discordant, noise and ‘interesting’.
Not for weddings & have not (I hope) been played at a funeral. Listen here.
2014 — 2019
CD → ECD → Principal @ DesignStudio
Moved from London to San Francisco!
Design folk meet every 3 months to help each other do good with good design. First Things Club
2019 — 2022
Global Creative Director, Pinterest
I was asked to write a book, fast forward years (and a run-in with mortality) & I asked myself — why hadn't I written that book?
I've been lucky to have joined some inspiring organizations as a brand advisor. Hoo Koo E Koo Re-Origin
I'm a strong advocate (and practitioner) of Design Thinking to give brands unfair advantages. Sometimes I flex the Design as Author muscle, so created my own playground.
