That old cliché about the simplest things being the hardest? Absolutely true. Earlier this week I spent hours working on a “version 1.5” redesign of the GAMBIT site, only to discover on the seventh draft that the best solution was a streamlining of my previous design. Subtle and elegant takes the cookie again but getting to subtle and elegant is, as always, the hard part.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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