JUSTIN

Founder / Chief Creative Officer

Justin has been responsible for the creative development, production and presentation of fully integrated, highly effective campaigns across all platforms and has cultivated long term relationships with his clients, their board members, their franchisee groups, other key partners and stakeholders. In addition to 20 years of agency experience at shops ranging from Ogilvy & Mather to 72andSunny, Justin consults for brands directly, is a commercial film Director in the DGA, has taught Design & Advertising courses at CSULB and was named a Nice-Modernist by Dwell Magazine. In his spare time he’s overly passionate about his family, cooking, cocktails, wine, painting, writing bio's and photography. 

STEVE

Executive Creative Director / Partner

Steve is an Executive Creative Director and Writer with over two decades of experience at both independent agencies and global networks.  Most recently, Steve was ECD at DNA Seattle, where he significantly raised the creative profile of this 50-person independent agency, helping them win Small Agency of the Year for the first time in their 24-year history. Steve has worked on brands of all shapes and sizes, including Rainier Beer, Tableau Software, Sounders FC, Darigold, Motorola, Visit Seattle, American Girl, Kaiser Permanente, Les Schwab Tires, Aflac, and AM/PM Mini-Markets. His NBA sponsorship campaign for T-Mobile featuring Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade was chosen as Campaign of the Year by Time Magazine.  Steve has a lovely wife, two boys, an anxious Hungarian Pointer, and a strong aversion to cilantro. 

DINO

Creative Director

Dino's work has garnered numerous advertising awards and accolades, is on display at The Museum of Modern Art and most importantly, lives on the phones, laptops and walls of multitudes of teens and college students. He has held creative and leadership positions at national and international agencies, as well as creative boutiques such as Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, Saatchi & Saatchi, David & Goliath and Leo Burnett. He has worked on a variety of brands ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small independent coffee brands. He is a trichotomy of cultures — Argentino, Italiano, Southern Californiano, and is fluent in both English and Spanish. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Visual Communications, and has successfully made two children, one of each gender.

SEAN

Director of VFX

Sean has over 10 years creating, developing and managing VFX in the commercial, television, interactive and film spaces. He's worked with large and small brands ranging from BMW, Acura, Ford, Dodge, Beats by Dre, HP, Fiat and on projects for Elton John, Cosmos, and Jack Reacher. He enjoys spending time with his family and currently owns more animals than the rest of our team combined.